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...
AfPak: Illegal, Immoral, Fattening
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,...
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...
The Rotten Fruits of War
The Reverse-Midas Effect
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...
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...
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...


