So the US is arming ‘flickers’ of al Qaeda in Libya, eh?

Gosh, that strategy worked so well in Afghanistan when we armed Islamists to oppose the Russians. There was no blowback from that, no siree.

Pakistan: Diplomacy vs Giving It All Away

A response to Spencer Ackerman’s opening gambit on Pakistan diplomacy [...]

General Kayani’s “Silent Coup” in Pakistan: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

What are the consequences of General Kayani’s 3 year extension for the US war in Afghanistan? [...]

Individual acts and the collapse of Pakistan

What led to the misery and instability in Afghanistan and Pakistan? And more importantly, what will end it? [...]

Pakistan’s “Strategic Depth” and endless war in Afghanistan

Pakistan’s national security policy of supporting terrorist groups and militias as proxies against India, known as “strategic depth,” is accelerating out of control, and they are either deliberately or inadvertently engineering a globalized religious war, a Clash of Civilizations. If pressure on congress is not increased, if the US remains on the slow, ambiguous timetable it is on now, it will be caught right in the middle of this clash. [...]

What’s worse: Steele’s Afghanistan comments or the reaction?

Chairman of the Republican Party Michael Steele made some awkward comments about Obama’s policy in Afghanistan, irking the right wing. With reaction from the left no better, we see that the War in Afghanistan is simply not a left/right issue at all. [...]

Associates of Al Qaeda arrested by DEA on drug charges in Africa

Maghreb

All manner of criminals, terrorists, and renegades are linking up in a lawless area of northwest Africa. The DEA just arrested three of them, who were linked to al Qaeda, in a sting in Ghana. (How the DEA gets access into Ghana certainly bears pondering but this is no phony threat. Read on.)

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