Tag: pakistan

Hillary’s Ill Will Tour

In what the Los Angeles Times described as "a fence-mending trip" to Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton managed to tear down more fence posts than she repaired. Abrasive, arrogant, and condescending, she fired a series of verbal RPG volleys that nearly demolished what remained of good relations between the U.S. and its principal ally … Continue reading “Hillary’s Ill Will Tour”

Arrogant US Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People

There has always been in American foreign policy circles a virus called arrogance, caused by the hereditary assumption that Americans know better than others. Surprisingly, this does not always prove the case, but the condition seems highly resistant to treatment, even by experience. There seems a high probability that the disease has struck Obama administration … Continue reading “Arrogant US Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People”

A Tale of Two UAVs

The recent frenzy over "balloon boy" Falcon Heene that dominated cable news was odd, considering the scant coverage of the carnage wreaked by another kind of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The balloon incident involved a 6-year-old boy who was thought to be inside a homemade contraption that came unmoored and flew unguided for 70 miles … Continue reading “A Tale of Two UAVs”

Obama Signs Controversial Pakistan Aid Bill

After 10 days of raging controversy centered in Islamabad, U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday signed a major aid bill for Pakistan authorizing some 7.5 billion dollars in non-military assistance for the increasingly beleaguered country over the next five years. The bill, which will more than triple the current level of non-military aid the U.S. provides … Continue reading “Obama Signs Controversial Pakistan Aid Bill”

Instead of Bombs and Bribes,
Let’s Try Empathy and Trade

What if tomorrow morning you woke up to headlines that yet another Chinese drone bombing on U.S. soil killed several dozen ranchers in a rural community while they were sleeping? That a drone aircraft had come across the Canadian border in the middle of the night and carried out the latest of many attacks? What … Continue reading “Instead of Bombs and Bribes,
Let’s Try Empathy and Trade”

Presidents Need a War to Call Their Own — Now Obama Has His

PARIS — The more one hears the discussion among Democrats about the war in Afghanistan, the more one feels that it is a serious handicap that Barack Obama has no personal experience of international relations or of foreign policy or military service, beyond such experience as one gains as a first-term U.S. senator. His vice … Continue reading “Presidents Need a War to Call Their Own — Now Obama Has His”