International Political Will

Why would Afghan elders “tip off the Taliban” that U.S. soldiers were in their village?
On Monday night, NBC Nightly News had the perfect opportunity to answer this question that is at the root of our military failures in Afghanistan. They had the chance to produce a piece of journalism that could have helped shape U.S. [...]

I stood outside of the stone-walled compound in rural northern Afghanistan passing time with a couple of UN drivers.
A young boy on a donkey ambled up and joined us, curious about the foreigner. Smiling, he began asking me questions, which were then translated by one of the drivers. Where are you from? What is your [...]

Watching, reading, listening, and even trying to actually decipher the media’s coverage of Iran’s elections is becoming an exercise in blissful ignorance, simplistic dichotomies, and pure unadulterated stupidity.

One might be led to believe that Ahmedinejad is a long-entrenched, all-powerful dictator with a history of rigging elections, in the mold of Mugabe or Mubarak (oops, Mubarak [...]

The embarrassing praise and adoration that the media is pouring on Obama after his “speech to the Muslim world” in Cairo is proof that liberals no longer have a voice in public policy.
Instead, we are left with a pseudo-debate between the right and the center, with spin doctors trying to convince Americans (and even the [...]

After last Friday’s bombing that killed 25 at a Shiite mosque in Zahedan, Iran, Press TV (an Iranian-funded news outlet) ran the headline:
Iran mosque blast bears ‘US, Israel thumbprints’
Of course, the two Iranian officials quoted in the brief story didn’t offer any evidence – merely that the attack was “at the behest of the United [...]