Sarwar Kashmeri

President Obama appeared unannounced in Kabul earlier this month to sign the Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement with President Karzai. Security is still so dangerous in Kabul the president had to squeak into the city during the middle of the night and his arrival was only announced after he...

In their joint March 12, 2012, Washington Post op-ed British Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama write:

"As leading world economies, we ... stand with our European friends as they resolve their debt crisis..."

Stand with our European friends is an artfully crafted phrase that should...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned home without receiving an American endorsement for an Israeli attack on Iran. Neither did he find much support for the Israeli government's assertion that the window to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons is about to slam shut. In fact, the U.S. military and...

In 1857 the East India Company, a British corporation that had colonized India for a hundred years, introduced the latest version of its service cartridge at the village of Dum Dum outside Calcutta. The cartridge had to be greased by hand to be effective. Rumors soon reached the Indian army...

Almost exactly 100 years ago President Theodore Roosevelt spoke to the General Assembly of Cairo University. Egypt was then, as it is today, in political turmoil as nationalist groups seethed under the rule of the British Crown, clamoring for freedom. The nationalists felt that the very act of deliverance from...

As the United States begins its peace-dance with the Taliban it is worth remembering that on the dance floor the Taliban always believe in leading. Witness the killing on Jan. 20 of four French soldiers and the wounding of 17 others by an Afghan National Army (ANA) trainee...

President Obama and his security team have crafted a well thought out recalibration of America's national security strategy. It is designed to meet the threats of the 21st century within today's fiscal realities. In fact, had the smaller, more agile, technology driven force projected under the new Obama security doctrine...

Where does the Occupy Wall Street movement go next? To the dust heap of well-meaning ideas that died in their execution, I'm afraid.

I came to this sad conclusion recently after listening to thirty members of the movement who were taking a well deserved break at the

If media headlines on the declining quality of students being produced by America's public education system ever get you down, take a trip to the Binghamton University campus of the State University of New York, or SUNY. You will be surprised at what you find: confident,...

The movement that is Occupy Wall Street has already claimed a sizable accomplishment: it has skillfully captured and illuminated the underlying mood of economic uncertainty in a large part of the country. It's full of wonderful, idealistic people who mean well and want to do even more. But after my...

For many Americans, news that the nearly 9-year-old war in Iraq is finally over will evoke feelings of relief but also revulsion. Relief, for the families of the military women and men that are coming home. And revulsion, for the officials and politicians that lacked the courage to prevent this...

"If you could press a button and get anything you want done, what would you want to achieve?" I asked the earnest young man at the Occupy Wall Street campaign in New York. I expected to hear him say, "Send the guilty bankers to jail," or, "Create a million jobs,...

"Khudahafiz" is the South Asian Muslim way of saying "goodbye." A wonderful phrase that means "Goodbye and may God protect you," it is time for America to say, "Khudahafiz Afghanistan," and end our miserable decade-long war in that country.

If you think that the American military involvement in Afghanistan is...

Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas' plan to unilaterally ask the UN for recognition of a Palestinian state is a bold and necessary move in the right direction. To ensure the success of his initiative, however, Mr. Abbas should surprise the world and couple his request for statehood with an equally bold...

The front page of the Wednesday, September 7, 2011 New York Times makes for macabre reading. After thousands of American military deaths, hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, and trillions of dollars spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, American military commitments in those countries are not...

A century ago, gunboats enforced England's dominance in the far corners of the world. Kill a British colonial governor and you'd wake up one morning to see a Royal Navy gunboat steaming in over the horizon, guns blazing, as it leveled a village in retaliation. Today it is the drone...

Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, many Muslim Americans have had to live with increased hostility and suspicion from their fellow citizens. Opposition to mosques, taunts at shopping malls and schools, and Islamophobia have hounded them as they try to live their American dream. So what has been the impact...

In 1776, the founding fathers of the United States made a grand bargain to ensure the birth of a new republic. They agreed to sideline the new country's black population, even though the Constitution they were about to endorse proclaimed that all men are created equal. This compromise ensured approval...