International Political Will

If you need a taxi to the Mumbai airport from the neighborhood of Vashi, Sonu is the driver you want.
A ride to the airport from my area can take hours (though it’s probably only about 20 miles) – there’s a toll bridge to cross, no highway (so single-lane city streets are the only route), and [...]

Almost a full eight years into the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, there are still three institutional sources of violence in the country: the Taliban, the warlords, and the foreign occupation. Each of these institutions feed off each other, generating a vicious cycle that Afghanistan appears unable to break.
The only winning strategy in Afghanistan is reconstruction. [...]

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. [...]

A story about a women’s shelter in Afghanistan should be an opportunity to showcase what can really drive progress.  It could be a chance to commend those handling the day-to-day operations.  It might be an opening to demonstrate what role Islam plays in women’s lives who, although they have been victims of a brutal misogynist [...]

You probably had never heard of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). The terrorist group reportedly behind last week’s attacks in Mumbai was formed in the early 1990s, and initially focused on wresting Kashmir from Indian control. But make no mistake: the Mumbai attacks were not about Kashmir.
The November attacks in Mumbai were retaliation for the ongoing US/NATO [...]