While it is obvious that the CIA needs to work on how it recruits its assets, the agency should also take into consideration the amateurish approach that Al Qaeda took in the double-agent situation.
I believe James Cameron simply has brought a pre-existing consciousness to the mainstream of orthodox life through a brilliant exercise of film-making.
The administration must continue providing intelligence and counterterrorism aid to the Yemeni government while pushing forward with the use of "smart power" to directly appeal to its people.
Right now, the President may appear to have a meager stack of chips in front of him, but it's because his entire bankroll is in the pot. And as it turns out, he's holding a couple of aces.
Rory Stewart just turned 37. He is not now in government; he has never even stood for election. And he's going to become prime minister of Great Britain.
Keith Olbermann invited Arianna onto his first show back after the holidays to discuss the way terrorism has become a political football. Following Ri...
It's time once again for Obama Poll Watch -- our monthly look back at Obama's approval ratings for the previous month.
If you hold a passport from countries considered to be "state sponsors of terrorism" or "countries of interest," don't plan on making your connecting flight to your final destination inside the USA.
In view of Cheney's willfully inaccurate partisan attacks, he deserves to now be held accountable for the Yemeni Al Qaeda terror sanctuary he helped populate.
When the Obamas departed for their Hawaiian holiday the traveling press was told "not to anticipate any possible announcements or news-making events." Wasn't this just asking for trouble?
Here's the reason that the U.S.'s Big Army strategy in Afghanistan is misguided: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Let's pause a moment as the New Year begins and take stock of ourselves as what we truly are: the preeminent war-making machine on planet Earth. Let's consider just what the American way of war might have in store for us in 2010.
A friend of mine (who shall go unnamed) recently harvested about a half a pound of quality marijuana from his backyard. He grew it from some seeds he ...
"This will be a great decade," said Bill Maher at midnight on New Year's Eve as we were toasting the arrival of 2010 at a friend's party. Then, with a wry grin, he added "...for China." We laughed but I was immediately reminded of a fascinating article by Michael Wines I'd just read in the New York Times. It lays out how China is spending billions of dollars in Afghanistan securing raw materials for its voracious economy while America is spending hundreds of billions in Afghanistan fighting an unnecessary war of choice... even as the fight against terrorism has moved on. So China is mining copper and coal in Afghanistan -- and earning tremendous goodwill -- and we are squandering our young, our treasure, and any goodwill we had. Meanwhile, 1,700 miles away, al-Qaeda is training terrorists in Yemen to attack America.
By all means, let's keep sending our neighbors and our neighbors' kids to Afghanistan to ensure China's economy stays on track.
The Dec. 30 killing of seven CIA employees in Afghanistan is a reminder that in time of war, the spy agency puts down its martinis and goes where the action is, as it has in places like Korea and Vietnam, since 1950.
The war in Afghanistan continues to escalate, and more are killed each day. While the United States spends billions the Chinese are building industry, jobs and good will.
Washington just turned the page on a decade filled with reckless spending, military adventurism and political fratricide. The costs of that era will be with us for some time.
Welcome back to my annual outright theft of The McLaughlin Group's awards categories for the past year in politics.
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...
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.
