Obama In Flux
As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.
As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
For Obama, the ability to showcase our justice system in a case involving one of the world's most reviled accused terrorists represents an important opportunity to define America before history and the world.
Robert Naiman | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome? There is something very Captain R...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and st...
Jon Soltz | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
American and NATO service members deserve better than to possibly die fighting an insurgency that even American contractors admit is being funded by the Department of Defense.
Michael Brenner | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
Rarely has a great power so willfully set itself down the path of self-destruction with so little reason as America has in Afghanistan. This is pathological behavior that cries out for diagnosis and correction.
David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.
Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Remarkably, Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future. It is paradoxical that the graveyard of one superpower should become a battlefield for the other.
AP | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Envelopes containing suspicious powder were sent to three foreign consulates in Manhattan on Monday, but initial tests suggested the ...
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
The horrific shooting at Fort Hood, allegedly by Nidal Malik Hasan, a disgruntled yet devout Army psychiatrist, puts the spotlight back on the lone-wolf offender who sits at the crossroads of crime, terrorism and mental distress.
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.07.2009 | World
While it may be too early to tell whether Obama will follow through on his 2007 campaign pledge, it does seem like his administration is setting the stage.
Kamran Pasha | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
I spoke today with a friend who is a Muslim soldier stationed at Fort Hood. He and Hasan prayed side-by-side at the mosque the morning of the massacre. He agreed to share his story with me if I granted him anonymity.
Will Marshall | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.
Saad Khan | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
If the United States wants to win some hearts in Pakistan, its aid should go to organizations directly working for public health and education. It's time to engage with the common Pakistani.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media
Al Qaeda, apparently heedless of the recessionary downturn that's felled so many publications in the freedom-loving world, is currently publishing a pair of magazines. If print media doesn't die, it could kill you!
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
It is time to set aside the notion that U.S. drone missile attacks in Pakistan are some kind of secret.
Rolling Stone | Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
The first U.S. government official to formally resign his post because of objections to America's course in Afghanistan makes a compelling case that America has lost its strategic sensibilities in this war.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
Islamist terrorist arrests across this country since last January run the gamut. White and black, young and middle-aged, single and married, homegrown and foreign born, and legal and illegal immigrants.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The path out of the Afghan quagmire lies in making the Afghan tribes the cutting blade of the strategy, not the US forces or the Afghan National Army.
New York Times | David E. Sanger | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
With the White House's reluctant embrace on Sunday of Hamid Karzai as the winner of Afghanistan's suddenly moot presidential runoff, President Obama n...
news.aol.com | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Pakistan squandered opportunities over the years to kill or capture leaders of the a...
William Bradley | Posted 11.14.2009 | World