Gates Says U.S. Willing to Extend Iraq Stay
Voice of America news reported a statement made by Defense Secretary Robert Gates on November 9 that the United States is willing to keep troops in Iraq past the current 2011...
Foreign Policy
Federal Informant Helped Plot Mumbai Attacks
In 2008 a series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, claimed the lives of 164 people. According to the New York Times, one of the key plotters of the attacks was...
Obama’s Bombay Nights Cost Americans and Indians
When Republicans take control of the nation’s purse strings in January, one of the first things they could cut to save taxpayers money is the White House travel budget. In addition...
WikiLeaks Releases Nearly 400,000 Classified Iraq War Documents
On October 22 the Internet-based whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published some 391,000 classified U.S. military documents on the Iraq War. WikiLeaks alleges the documents prove that the U.S. government continued to look...
U.S. Announces $2 Billion Military Aid Package to Pakistan
Voice of America reported on October 22 that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced an Obama administration pledge to seek $2 billion annually in military aid to Pakistan over five...
Clinton Cabinet Member: Sacrifice American Pilot as Pretext to Get Saddam
Americans do not like to think of their government as an aggressor against foreign countries. We prefer to believe that our country is always the victim of unprovoked attacks and that...
The 10th Anniversary of the Attack on the USS Cole
Americans remember today the suicide attack by al-Qaeda terrorists on the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden, on October 12, 2000. The bombers sailed a small boat near the...
One Year After Obama’s Peace Prize: Where’s the Peace?
In a famous TV commercial from the 1980s, an elderly woman, surveying the minuscule amount of hamburger in the middle of a bun, asks pointedly, “Where’s the beef?” One year after...
The Karzai Family Fortune, Courtesy of U.S. Taxpayers
The average Afghan — and, indeed, the average American — may be deriving very little benefit from the United States’ continued occupation of Afghanistan and the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars...
Taliban Claims Responsibility for NATO Supply Truck Attacks
Voice of America and other news sources reported on October 4 that the Pakistani Taliban had claimed responsibility for an attack on about 20 tanker trucks carrying fuel bound for NATO...
Pentagon Seeks Permanent U.S. Presence in Afghanistan
President Barack Obama may have publicly stated that U.S. troops will begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011, but according to reporter Bob Woodward, both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Gen....
The Real Costs of the Wars
When the book The $3 Trillion War debuted in 2008, it was roundly criticized by such notables as John Lott, Richard Zerbe and Edgar Browning, who held that estimates of the...
CIA Drones Attack Pakistan to Prevent Terror Attack in Europe
The British Daily Mail reported on September 29 that U.S. CIA-directed forces had launched “a devastating series of missile strikes against militants in Pakistan to help foil Mumbai-style attacks on cities...
U.S. Aid to Southern Sudan Tells a Familiar Story
During his run for the presidency, Barack Obama promised Americans change we could believe in. Little, however, has changed in domestic policy from the George W. Bush era, except to accelerate...
Afghan, NATO Forces Launch Offensive in Kandahar
Voice of America News reported on September 27 that Afghan and NATO forces engaged in Operation Dragon Strike are conducting a major push to drive Taliban militants out of their stronghold...