Afghans must smash and rewrite the dangerous narrative that has so enslaved them over the years by looking to their past and reinstituting sacred tribal institutions to establish a sovereignty based on the true will of the Afghan people. Read more: Declaration of Independence, Hamid Karzai, Islam, Pakistan, United Nations, Afghanistan, King Zahir Shah, Taliban, [...]

When we hear about the deficits we hear a lot of scare stories, which most “serious” media just echo and amplify. The prevailing “serious” narrative we hear is that we must cut entitlements — any “serious” budget proposal cuts Medicare and Social Security. Even though they just extended tax cuts for the rich the deficits [...]

Wishful thinkers who had expected President Barack Obama to lay out a new U.S. grand strategy for the Middle East — the so-called Obama Doctrine — during his much-anticipated address at the State Department on Thursday were bound to be disappointed. That post-1945 American presidents were able to enunciate a series of U.S. “doctrines” to [...]

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is evaluating whether to keep troops in Iraq beyond the planned withdrawal date, a decision that would extend an unpopular war that the American public expected to end this year. The Status of Forces Agreement signed by Iraq and the United States during the Bush administration says all U.S. troops [...]

The stakes are perhaps as high as they have ever been for the post-Cold War United States as Senator John Kerry wades through the Central Asian quagmire in Islamabad. Ironies abound. A war begun ten years ago by Skull and Bonesman George W. Bush requires another Skull and Bonesman to end it. It all seems [...]

Read it and weep, Sophocles. The war in Vietnam is the American tragedy of our lifetimes. The saddest part of the story is that it’s not over yet. Long after the last bombs dropped and the shooting stopped, the war we lost has profoundly influenced American foreign policy. This new volume, Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and [...]

                                                                                                                                      Ultimate Fear Strategy Invigorated, WTC #7 Enigma Totally Ignored By Commander and Chief Executive          A spectacle of the nation’s internal conflict and fear that grows with each false narrative of U.S.impotent vengeance. Conversely, beginning with the WTC tragedy 09 11 2001 to the Bin Laden demise of 05 02 2011 [...]

Osama Bin Laden once said that he worshiped death, while his enemies worshiped life. Yet al Qaeda’s original Dr. Evil and Global Terror’s bête noir did not go out in a blaze of glory at a time of his own choosing, but rather was summarily dispatched by U.S. Navy Seals in his own bedroom. In [...]

Scramble the film backwards. Rewind. Go back to the day 10 years ago when the air here in Manhattan was thick with ash and Osama bin Laden was gloating. There were two options for the United States government — to pick up a scalpel, or to pick up a blowtorch. With the scalpel, you go [...]

It’s tempting to expect perfection from those we admire, but we romanticize lone heroes at our peril. A few years before one-time supporter Jon Krakauer challenged the truthfulness of Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea, a professor asked me my thoughts on using the book as a reading for first-year students, to encourage them to [...]