My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 2]
Welcome back to my annual outright theft of The McLaughlin Group's awards categories for the past year in politics. What's that? We're sorry, but ou...
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2010: A Peace Odyssey?
Another year brings another war, so it would seem. Already in the works beforehand but now hastened by the Christmas "underwear bomber," we are swiftl...
A Long Twilight Struggle: America's Role in an Age of Terror
Kennedy's phrasing is often used to describe the Cold War with communism, but I think his "twilight struggle" referred to the human condition itself.
Foreign Affairs Roundup
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Iran Rallies, Counter-Rallies, and a Deadline Passed This week saw the continuation of another wave of m...
After Detroit Near-Attack, Is Afghan Strategy The Right One?
Why are we sending nearly every Marine and Soldier we have to Afghanistan, when Abdulmutallab and a Somali man arrested for plotting a similar attack last month apparently had no real connection to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan?
Peace On Earth
It's not going to happen here in the United States -- peace -- not in this coming year, not in my lifetime, or in many lifetimes.
End of Year, 2009
2009 was certainly not a year of triumphs for mankind nor human kindliness. The world economic crisis is neither diagnostically nor therapeutically on the way to a solution.
New Year's Resolution: Sponsor an Overseas Child in 2010
Resolved to be more involved in the New Year? Have you considered sponsoring a child in an orphanage or children's project in the developing world? ...
Nine Ways Our World Changed During the '00s
What was the decade of the '00s about? The following nine trends are a snapshot of some of the driving forces we're dealing with now at the turn of the decade.
Sleep Loss in America: The Decade That Didn't Sleep and Why It's Complicated
We have been on a roller coaster when it comes to how we now sleep and what a ride we have been on.
Why A Mom Should Be Allowed to Be Buried with her Dead Soldier Son
Maybe there won't be enough burial plots if they grant the wish of every soldier's mom who wants to be buried with her dead child. If that's true then we're in worse trouble than we think.
My New Year's Resolution: No to Nicking Knickers
The continued bombardments of people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Pakistan and Yemen are not giving us the peace and security we crave. In fact, the result is to the contrary.
Drone Porn: The Newest YouTube Hit
Ranging from relatively detached wide shots of bombings taken by onboard cameras to startlingly graphic close-ups, "drone porn" has become a smash hit, tallying over 10 million views.
Bright Sun. Blue Sky. The Laughter of Children. Just For One Day. In Iraq and Afghanistan.
As 2010 begins, I am plunged into a fresh gloom. Wouldn't it be nice if -- like the Christmas Armistice of 1914 -- the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq simply stopped. A truce that lasted a day, that wouldn't rock the world.
The Keystone Cops Meet the Parents; And Let's Not Invade Yemen
So before airport security screening start to feel like your annual medical check-up and American troops head into Yemen, here are some common sense ideas aimed at preventing anti-American terrorism.
It's Only an Act of Terror If it Terrorizes
Last weekend America had the chance to be in the driver's seat, in a position of power. Instead, American media, and officials, chose the victim route focusing on our vulnerability rather than our resilience.
Fearless Predictions for 2010 and Other Magical Thinking
Tom Friedman will realize that he's losing his success rate to the average stopped clock and retire to focus on writing non-political travel books. They will be very short. But somehow still turgid.
2010: Year of Reckoning?
With would-be terrorists -- however inept -- scattered around the planet, we keep pushing the Sisyphusian boulder up the slopes of the Hindu Kush.
Bush Follies Brought Tudors to Broadway
Surveying some of Broadway's best offerings over the last couple years, one common storyline jumps out. King Henry VIII and all of the Tudors-related atrocities have seen a prominent revival.
Barack's Freshman Year
What makes a leader successful -- contrary to the expectations of our instant gratification culture -- isn't measurable by initial moves and events, and certainly not only by early results.
Family Feuds
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is having problems with both of his extended families, his blood -- and lately bloody -- kin, and his political family.
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