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President Bush used to say that terrorists hate freedom. Actually, terrorists use freedom, need freedom and have exploited freedom.
As the Obama administration prepares to shift responsibility for Afghanistan's security and governance to the Afghan people, it must keep in mind the security concerns of its reluctant ally in Islamabad.
Is there an alternative to ideological illusion and the rhetoric of evil? Yes, there is. We must remember our common human vulnerabilities and bring them into a collective conversation within which our existential anxiety can be held and better borne.
The arguments for retaining our army in that forsaken land are ridiculous, compared to the facts arrayed against that position. Withdraw now! Isn't it about time we learn from Moses and Joshua how to succeed?
Obama is the last one that the GOP could gripe about when it comes to the willingness to use American might in Afghanistan. Just ask Obama's Democratic critics.
Since 9/11, the U.S.-Pakistan relationship has always been a prickly one, but the level of current distrust has risen to an all-time high. If we want to prevent extremism, the fix will not be found in more drone strikes.
Obama, from many accounts, will be using a tactic in his primetime speech that I would call "muddying the waters." The president is going to have a more complicated withdrawal schedule than one might have expected.
Washington seems to be engaged in a wholesale post-bin-Laden ratification of business as usual, this time on steroids. Certainly, the Obama administration has a record of translating potentially propitious moments for change into strategic paralysis.
Our lazy and self-comforting reductionism says nothing about Haiti or Pakistan, and all too much about us Americans. The earthquake in Haiti and the floods in Pakistan were natural disasters, but didn't happen in a geopolitical vacuum.
What does it actually mean to be the "9/11 Generation"? Theories about 9/11 and the young American psyche could fill a pseudo-social-sciencey seminar syllabus.
Pakistan's military claims 16 percent of the nation's budget (while education gets 1.2 percent). The generals claim that the funding is necessary, not to fight extremism -- but to fight India.
It was Pakistan's moment of "Hope and Change." There were high expectations for the new regime.
Barack Obama, cool and cerebral, and the opposite of homo braggadocio, was saying -- whether he was fully aware of it or not -- that this was the real "Mission Accomplished" moment.
I'll tell you what, Mr. President. It's been over a month since you nailed the bad guy. You start making everything better right now and I'll let the price of gas slide.
Despite calls to 'get out of Pakistan' and 'leave them to their own devices,' this does matter to global security, and not just because of Pakistan's expanding nuclear capability.
I ponder what the Dalai Lama said that day in Los Angeles: "If something is serious ... you have to take countermeasures." Was he referring to what I am calling "horror"?
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