The Nobel Prize Committee has made a gross miscalculation in awarding the Nobel Prize to President Obama. Speaking to reporters, Thorbjorn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said "We would hope [the Nobel Prize] will enhance what he is trying to do." However, in awarding the Prize to...

Some in the Arab media are saying that Barack Obama's silence about Israel's assault on the Gaza strip amounts to tacit support for Israel's actions. But the fact that Israel decided to launch this massive attack on the Gaza strip in the waning days of the Bush administration suggests that...

Yes, it seems that Sarah Palin wanted to take her last moments to remind vice presidential debate watchers that she and her running mate, John McCain, represent the party that opposed Medicare. Her final quote "...you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our...

In accepting her role as John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin made an unabashed appeal to Hillary Clinton supporters and, in one of the greatest displays of chutzpah in recent political memory, offered to carry the baton that final yard for her to smash the glass ceiling. Women, and people...

Karl Rove must be smiling right about now. The Palin nomination has been rolling itself out like a classic page from his political playbook. The U.S. economy is arguably in recession, thousands of Americans are losing their homes, the Republican Party has led the charge for one of the most...

The World Bank and United Nations funded National Justice Program for Afghanistan announced earlier this month, designed to strengthen Afghanistan's weak judicial is a positive step in the right direction. However, without more a more targeted list of priorities, programs aimed at curbing the endemic corruption in Afghanistan will not...

We might have heard the preamble to the most important endorsement of the Democratic Primary last night when Senator Hillary Clinton promised to back the Democratic nominee, "no matter what." It's now time for Hillary Clinton to think through what that will entail. After having spent months and millions trying...

I had a bad feeling this morning. It was my first full day back in Afghanistan, and I was eyeing the local television preliminary coverage of today's parade which celebrated the Mujahideen's victory over the Soviets. Karzai was there along with MPs, foreign dignitaries and top Afghan commanders. "You couldn't...

Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, wrote a strong letter urging superdelegates to commit to one of the Democratic candidates in order to allow the party time to heal, regroup, and gear up for the general election. I say to the primary voters in Pennsylvania, Indiana and North...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates' statement last week that the U.S. intends to send more combat forces to Afghanistan in 2009 is further evidence that the Taliban remains a formidable foe. One of the major sources of income for the Taliban, and a primary source of instability for the Afghan Government...

Ever since the September 11th attacks, the Bush administration has been warning Americans that, but for the rule of military dictator General Pervez Musharraf, the sky would be falling. Musharraf, we were told, was what was standing between us and a flood of Islamic extremists who would unleash acts of...

Imagine a presidential candidate who believed that God wanted him to run for president because American needed him. Picture a secretive group of Washington insiders who meet quietly to mix religion, class and politics and who believe in an elite group of people divinely ordained to run the country and...

Barack Obama is better equipped to handle the United States' foreign policy on the world stage than either Hillary Clinton or John McCain. As an international human rights lawyer who has worked in Iraq and Afghanistan, I understand better than most the security situation facing Americans and the world. Recently,...