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?
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
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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.
All politics is local: Al-Qa’eda and the Afghanistan War
As pressure to end the war builds in Washington, supporters of the war in Afghanistan will invariably return to their strongest argument: the threat of Al-Qa'eda. However, a reasonable understanding of the terrorist organization shows that even Al-Qa'eda is not enough to justify a bloody and expensive occupation.