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Last Saturday night, New York honored the thousands killed nine years ago with vertical beams of light where once the twin towers stood.  The look was lovely.  It felt spiritual and, although timely, at the same time quite timeless.  What ...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

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