International Political Will

Off next week to East Africa, and won’t have any new posts until I return the last week of October.
Check back then for some (hopefully) interesting posts.

Tags: Yet To Be Determined

Thank God for Jimmy Carter.
But I still have to wonder why it’s Carter’s job to report facts – wasn’t that supposed to be the job of journalists?
After the “9/12” protests last week, the news media tried to convince us that this represented a legitimate argument again Obama’s policies. We were told these were “real” fears [...]

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who until now showed that he understood the folly of the preemptive war doctrine, just crossed the line into Rumsfeldian stupidity. Instead of addressing the context and forming a new paradigm of strategic policy for the world, Gates hearkened back to the failures of arming proxy-states to further U.S. interests.

Here’s [...]

Last night was the end of Ganapati – a ten day long festival in honor of Ganesh, the four-armed, elephant-headed deity (often referred to locally as Ganapati).

In Mumbai this is, by far, the most exciting festival (and in India, there is plenty of competition).
Essentially, every family buys a plaster statue of Ganesh and keeps it [...]