Alternative to ‘Victory’ in Afghanistan?
Reality Is Its Own Caricature for US in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Latest Tale From the ‘War on Terror’ Dark Side
PARIS -- Little mainstream comment seems to have appeared on the latest revelations of incompetence and sadistic fantasy that have been published this week about the ways in which the American nation lost its honor and international reputation because of the Bush...
Political Solution in Afghanistan Possible,
but Not by Going Down Current Path
It would be a great service to the American nation if Barack Obama would tell us what he himself thinks the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan are about. To capture Osama bin Laden? There have been eight years in which to capture bin Laden and it's not been done yet,...
Intervention Today Means a Less Secure Tomorrow
A once-fashionable subject in America's think-tanks was futurology, supposed to be a fruitful method for foreseeing the future (or "possible futures," as it was put at the time). It worked by projecting what were thought to be plausible developments in the...
From Iraq to Afghanistan, US Wars Not Going According to Plan
Obama Presses Israel on Settlements, but Their End Isn’t in Sight
The War Between Civilizations That Never Was
PARIS -- An important change is evident in what since Samuel Huntington's time has been mistakenly identified and manipulated as a war between Muslim and Western civilizations. I say mistakenly for several reasons, one of them being that Professor Huntington himself...
