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Today I got an e-mail from barackobama.com asking me to donate $5 or more to President Obama’s campaign. With my donation, I’d be eligible to win a ticket to dinner with him as one of four lucky “supporters.” He said he wanted my stories and ideas and invited me to share them with him if [...]

Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Two guys cost a trillion dollars. Is there a better way to spend our money? Most in the U.S. seems happy we got them. What a celebration! But there’s not enough money in the world to hunt down all major terrorists this way, let alone all our enemies. Cheaper, [...]

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 [...]

The killing of bin Laden at the hands of U.S. forces is likely to be a cathartic moment for the world — almost as if a war has come to an end — but his termination comes much too late. And the war is not truly over until the real mastermind of the al Qaeda [...]

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 [...]

Crossposted with TomDispatch.com Back in the 1960s, Senator George Aiken of Vermont offered two American presidents a plan for dealing with the Vietnam War: declare victory and go home. Roundly ignored at the time, it’s a plan worth considering again today for a war in Afghanistan and Pakistan now in its tenth year. As everybody [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan — Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, some analysts are speculating that al-Qaeda and its Afghan Taliban allies could go their separate ways, increasing the chances for a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden’s death is likely to revive a debate within the Afghan Taliban about their ties to al-Qaida – [...]

“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” – Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, his account of the war between Sparta and Athens (fifth century BC) This statement seems to me not only unfair but, at the current stage of development of civilization, a threat to human survival. Let [...]