A mere day after the forces of light and progress ensured that no American can be deprived of his or her God-given right to kill foreigners, a new crisis of conscience emerged. A Chicago Sun-Times editorial from Sept. 21 has the details: Give military women equal...
As in many other places around the globe, the United States has a bad track record of propping up leaders and groups in Somalia, only to watch them crumble months or years later. Siad Barre, the ruthless military dictator of Somalia, was kept in power by the US until...
Tunisia was the spark of the revolution that is the Arab Spring. The Tunisian foreign minister has announced that the transitional government is ready for elections to take place next month on October 23. The elections will be the first since the overthrow of the...
The Net is abuzz today with the irony, that Peter Van Buren, a 23-year foreign service officer with the U.S Department of State, may be the only department personnel to be fired over the WikiLeaks' scandal. Van Buren, who just published the book, We Meant Well: How I...
Last week, the Federation of American Scientists released “Upsetting the Reset: The Technical Basis of Russian Concern Over NATO Missile Defense” [.pdf]. The introduction includes a recurring theme of the Bush-Obama years: In September 2009, the Obama administration...
Israel has always undercut any possible peace process, but its tactics are big and small. Officials don't have to start a war in Gaza to break a truce with Hamas, they can also just say things like "Abbas is the best Palestinian leader for Israel." Thus spake...
Last week, Turkey asked the US for assistance (read: weapons) in fighting separatist Kurds in southeast Turkey. As I mentioned in the piece, it wouldn't be the first time and back when the Clinton administration "donated" arms to Turkey for this same reason, it...
Libya's interim rulers say they have found a mass grave believed to hold the remains of 1,270 inmates killed by Moammar Gadhafi's security forces in a notorious 1996 massacre. Yes, this is a horrible crime. No, it does not retroactively bolster the case for US...
Reuters: Pakistan's military will not take action against the Haqqani militant group that Washington blames for an attack against its embassy in Kabul, despite mounting American pressure to do so, a Pakistani newspaper reported on Monday. ...The Pakistani commanders...
