Reflections of a retired Baby Boomer Topic: Flight 253, Intelligence Failure? In the aftermath of the recent failed Christmas day terrorist attack by a young Nigerian man, the airwaves and print media are once again filled with cries of “intelligence failure”. As I watched the talking heads give their “expert” analysis of […]
I’ll be away for the next couple weeks on holiday hiatus. For your special holiday surprise, click….. HERE! See you in 2010.
* Is the war in Afghanistan moral? Patrick Frost of FPA Afghanistan and I have found ourselves debating the issue in the comments sections of one of his posts. Check it out. * Though maybe we could forgo this whole moral debate and simply seek the advice of robots. * And on an unrelated note, […]
It’s been, indeed, a transitional year for the world. In the midst of a devastating global economic downturn, Barack Obama took the U.S. presidency January 20. In many ways, it has been the year of Obama. A strategic review of Afghan policy in March ended with sending more troops—and President Obama doubled down on a […]
Speaking of R2P, might I wet your palate with a preview of the FPA-produced Great Decisions episode on R2P? The whole thing will air on PBS next year…
Give this a shot.
GailForce Reflections of a retired Baby Boomer On December 16, two days before scheduled UN talks on its nuclear program, and in a not so subtle warning to the U.S. and its allies, Iran test fired, the Sajjil-2, the latest variant of their ongoing missile development program. The missile is powered by solid […]
Copenhagen in the news today. 1) The talks are seemingly stalled, and most are pointing at a dispute over climate aid to developing countries. 2) The chief of the climate summit, Danish Climate Minister Connie Hedegaard, has stepped down from her post, after calls for increased transparency. The Danish Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, will […]
I’ve wanted to touch on a major development in Indian politics: the partition of the state of Andhra Pradesh. Residents of Hyderabad and its surrounding environs claimed, in the most basic sense, that the surrounding rural areas were depriving them of its proper share of economic growth/wealth. After a dramatic hunger strike, by K. Chandrasekhar […]
The Council on Foreign Relations has published a report authored by Matthew Waxman about the responsibility to protect (R2P). Waxman asks “whether the current international legal regime with regard to the use of military force – that is, international law regulating the resort to armed intervention – is appropriate and effective in determining and stopping […]
1) The Nation, Pakistan: Pakistan may be the most talked about country in the world today. Here’s “Pakistan’s Perspective” by Tariq Osman Hyder. Note what he writes about the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. 2) Der Spiegel, Germany: Really, you can’t get more brutal than this, from Klaus Brinkbäumer: The United States is now a republic of bloggers […]
A London court issued, then revoked, an arrest warrant for former Israeli prime minister, Tzipi Livni. The BBC reports on the Israeli and British government responses… Livni: “What needs to be put on trial here is the abuse of the British legal system… This is not a suit against Tzipi Livni, this is not a […]
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