International Political Will

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 [...]

The strings of America’s mainstream media are pulled so tight by the neo-conservative administration, I doubt they even realize when they regurgitate a talking point in the guise of “news.”

The Surge worked.
The Sunni Awakening.

Both of these Orwellian mantras are heard daily on every news outlet. Yet they’re no more than neo-con talking points distributed through [...]

From the Iraq Study Group Report: A Way Forward - A New Approach, page 73:

“We could, however, support a short-term redeployment or surge of American combat forces to stabilize Baghdad…if the U.S. commander in Iraq determines that such steps would be effective.”

So while Democrats bemoan the president and his newest Iraq plan, taking every opportunity [...]

America has long claimed to be a “shining city on a hill,” a righteous nation that has been called to spread freedom throughout the world. Critics claim that this ideology can create an agenda that is impossible to live up to, and that such ideologies belong in the minds of superheroes in comic books.
High [...]

I find it hard to write about the events of the world when so much appears to be going wrong, and apparently lessons never learned. Instead I have been focusing on other writing, attempting to divert my attention from the human misery that is the modern world. The year 2006 has been a [...]