The situation in Afghanistan is bad. How bad? The head of the US military is warning against a comparison between Afghanistan and Vietnam because "Afghanistan is much more complex." The policy recommendations keep coming in as the Obama Administration plans its...
Keeping a nation out of war is usually something to emphasize in elections: in Israel, where the nation has gone over two weeks without much in the way of military conflict it is the end of the war rather than the beginning which is seen as undermining the ruling...
As President Obama continues in earnest with his promised military "surge" in Afghanistan, which will double the number of American forces on the ground, it was expected that NATO would enhance its commitment to the seven year long military commitment as well. That...
Joints Chiefs Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen warned that people should be "pretty careful" about making comparisons between the current military quagmire in Afghanistan and the previous American military quagmire in Vietnam. According to Mullen, "Afghanistan is much...
Reports have been swirling around for the past several days that the United States has been holding high-level but discreet talks with Iran even as the Obama Administration has publicly dismissed rumors of any official efforts to improve relations. Now, Iran too is...
Hundreds of Afghan protesters took to the streets Sunday in protest over a US raid they said led to the deaths of at least two civilians, the latest in a string to US raids which have killed a large number of innocent civilians. During the US raid in the Ghazni...
In an interview with Newsweek magazine, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei was asked why he didn't condemn Syria and North Korea for "building a nuclear reactor" - referring to the alleged gas-graphite reactor some claim was being constructed along the Euphrates River. The...
In an interview today on NBC, President Barack Obama was asked whether a "substantial number" of troops would be home in time for next year's Super Bowl (to be held on February 7, 2010). Obama replied "Yes. We are going to roll out in a very formal fashion what our...
The Pakistani military continued its offensive into the restive Swat Valley today, and one official reported that at least 43 civilians were killed in the crossfire between soldiers and the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants which have taken over much of the...
While President Barack Obama reversed a number of the Bush Administration's anti-terror excesses, the controversial tactic known as extraordinary rendition, the extralegal kidnapping and transportation of detainees, remains conspicuously legal. Only a cursory effort...
