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It has been a disturbing ten days in foreign relations.   A week ago Monday, North Korea,  without provocation, began shelling the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong.  Two South Korean civilians and two Marines were killed and a ...Read more

President Obama just returned from a ten-day tour of Asia.  The tour was set up well in advance of midterm election results, and the timing must have been dictated in part by the G20 Summit in Seoul, South Korea, and ...Read more

Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize as a young President who chose to continue and even accelerate the war in Iraq (admittedly in an effort to end it – but still!!!) and ramp up military efforts in Afghanistan and ...Read more

My grandmother and a great-aunt were not on speaking terms for a very long time.  We visited both women often and were welcomed into both homes with equal enthusiasm, but it was years before I learned that the two women ...Read more

On Saturday the New York Times reported yet more evidence of the incorrigible corruption of the Karzai government in Afghanistan.  Fazel Ahmed Facqiryar, a former Deputy Attorney General, has recently been fired for asserting publicly that the investigations of more ...Read more