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 Lusaka, Zambia, April 28, 2009 
The fertile ground for radical violence in Pakistan is provided by various fundamentalist factions that prosper in this large, heavily populated, backward country with a population now probably in excess of 170 million but still afflicted by the added huge malady of permanent political immaturity.
In Pakistan, U.S. policymakers confront the dilemma of armed forces incapable of really le ... read more 
Washington, April 27, 2009 U.S. President Obama's foreign policy gurus are baffled by Pakistan's anarchic chaos that is sweeping one of the world's eight nuclear powers. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she had trouble understanding why the Pakistani army isn't moving to suppress Taliban insurgents inching closer to the capital city of Islamabad. After six decades of independence -- and half that time und ... more
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Prague, Czech Republic, April 27, 2009 Flames began to engulf the young man at the foot of Riga's Freedom Monument. A brilliant 21-year-old student at the University of Latvia, Ilya Rips could not sit idly by. Still in flames, Rips held a sign, "I am protesting the occupation of Czechoslovakia." It was 40 years ago -- on April 13, 1969 -- three months after Jan Palach had immolated himself to protest the Soviet invasion in Prague. ... more  
Washington, April 27, 2009 India has poor special forces, but its enormous manpower gives it a powerful advantage in maintaining security and fighting guerrilla conflicts. This model flies in the face of the fashionable and currently widely accepted theories of military force deployment and weapons procurement spearheaded by the United States and followed by almost of all of the major industrialized democracies. ... more
Washington, April 28, 2009 Next week, Presidents Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and Asif Zardari of Pakistan will meet U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington at the trilateral talks aimed at arriving at a coordinated strategy for the troubled region. The news is not good. In testimony to Congress last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke of the insurgency in Pakistan as posing a "mortal" threat to the United S ... more
Washington, April 27, 2009 Jordan's King Abdullah, who met with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington last week, warned that unless headway was achieved in the dormant peace process, the Middle East could be heading toward renewed open conflict. Speaking to a group of Washington diplomats, pundits, politicians and journalists, the Jordanian monarch said he was truly worried by the prevailing trend developing ... more |
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Washington, April 27, 2009 The current political establishment of the United States -- both Republican and Democratic, liberal and supposedly conservative -- is drunk on hubris, cut off from the world beyond court politics and thoroughly corrupted by Pentagon "business as usual," which knows how to buy whatever political support it needs. Like all establishments, it sees any real change as a threat to be avoided. ... more  
Washington, April 29, 2009 At the height of the Cold War, a U.S. Army corps commander in Europe asked for information on his Soviet opposite, the commander of the corps facing him across the inter-German border. All the U.S. intelligence agencies, working with classified material, came up with very little. He then took his question to Chris Donnelly, who had a small Soviet military research institute at Sandhurst in the ... more
Arlington, Va., April 28, 2009 Without aerial refueling, the global reach of U.S. airpower would be severely limited. However, nearly 90 percent of the tankers in the current refueling fleet -- 453 planes -- are Eisenhower-era Boeing KC-135s that average 50 years of age. Nobody knows how much longer these planes can operate before metal fatigue, corrosion and parts obsolescence cause a disaster. What we do know is t ... more 
Lusaka, Zambia, April 29, 2009 Pakistan is a weak country, close to being ungovernable, to the extent that too many elements within its society do not really recognize the legitimacy of popularly elected leaders. Meanwhile, to the north, U.S. armed forces and their allies from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization fight to preserve the weak authority of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul against a resurgent Isla ... more |
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