Midweek Linkage

• Dan Trombly worries about the effectiveness of proxy warfare in Syria. 
• Drone reconnaissance aids archeology.
• Chinese missile porn.
• US policy toward Bahrain.
• Did the US once save Hugo Chávez’s life?
• Colin Dueck thinks that the US is strategically overextended.
• Andrew Yeo looks at the NRA and right-wing social movements.
• David Kaib riffs on the Portman gay-marriage conversion. So does David S. Meyer.

And also:

• More possible downsides of MOOCs (via Erik Loomis)
• Possible upsides of MOOCs.
• Game of Thrones meets Firefly.