International Political Will

There are a few things in life that have proved true over time:

HDTV is not a good thing when watching news anchors that have had too much plastic surgery.

Permanently wearing a blue-tooth earpiece does not make you richer, more professional, or more respected. It just makes you look like you wish you were a part [...]

Given the testimony of the top U.S. intelligence officials from the FBI and the Dept. of Homeland Security to the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Thursday, I am now adding the title “Terrorism Expert” to my resume (or, in lieu of recent advice from my father-in-law, how about “Anti-Terrorism Consultant?”).
“[T]hree leading U.S. security officials told [...]

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 [...]

Claims are often made that the United States supports and funds autocratic despots in countries around the world, thwarting democracy when it doesn’t fit America’s interests. Despite an abundance of information, these links between dictators and the U.S. government are often tenuous and difficult to prove.
This gives the right-wing many excuses and arguments to [...]

The West often rails against the rampant corruption that plagues developing countries. From our perspective, it seems that corruption is a major obstacle that prevents many countries from obtaining the progress we have enjoyed. Yet we may be wrongly assuming our own value placed on an honest politician is the ideal for everyone else.
Yesterday, I [...]