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Everybody’s worried about Pakistan and Afghanistan, and that includes me.  Should America have a military presence there at all?  What’s the point if we’re after Al Qaeda, and Al Qaeda isn’t a nation and can just keep moving to new ...Read more

Two notable events in the news this week showcase the Obama Administration’s foreign policy.  First, the Taliban’s top military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was captured by Pakistani authorities at a madrassa near Karachi.  Here the Administration’s efforts to cultivate ...Read more

It may have taken almost two weeks after the Christmas Day terror attack, marked initially by three days of total silence from Obama’s “Hawaiian” White House, a number of rounds of golf and a few trips to get ice cream, ...Read more

Karl Von Clausewitz, the military theoretician, famously once said, “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” In Afghanistan our political objective is clear:  it is to create a stable regime friendly enough to our interests so  that the ...Read more