International Political Will

The stupidity and arrogance of our government has never ceased to amaze me, but the latest dust-up over secret CIA plans to assassinate Al Qaeda leaders is truly Orwellian.
Apparently, long ago, in an administration far, far away, some Bush adviser actually had a brain. Imagine this: instead of dropping bombs from unmanned drones on remote [...]

All too frequently, the media sensationalizes non-stories as they attempt to whip up anti-Islamic fervor in the name of ratings.  FOX News ran a story headline Sunday: “Islamic Law’s Influence in America a Growing Concern.”
What exactly is the concern?  Apparently, some taxi drivers in the U.S. decided not to carry passengers with alcohol, a university [...]

Why aren’t we bombing Mexico with unmanned Predator drones?
If the Obama administration truly believes that dropping bombs from remote-controlled aircraft onto villages on the Afghan-Pakistani border is a good idea to combat the Taliban, why not do the same to fight the drug cartels in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez?
It seems that Mexico - where the [...]

There is yet another obscure way our government is trying to fight the so-called “war on terror” (besides actually stopping it).
Pomegranates.
Apparently these delicious (but ridiculously hard-to-peel) fruits are the key to fighting terror in Afghanistan and thwarting the Taliban. Unable to keep local Afghan farmers from growing the lucrative opium poppies, the U.S. government is [...]

There may be a new administration in the U.S., but tell that to Iraqis, Afghans, or Pakistanis.

Even China’s Prime Minister Wen Jaibao is paying for Bush’s eight years of failure.
Less than three days after taking office, President Obama has continued the failed U.S. policy of dropping bombs from unmanned drones to fight the so-called “war [...]