Talking with Pakistan’s elite in cities like Islamabad and Lahore these days, you can tell they are worried. It’s not what you think. They agree that the Taliban is metastasizing, spreading southward from redoubts in the northern tribal areas to the heartland of the Punjab. But that isn’t what worries them. They know that particularly [...]
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Pakistan’s Reluctant Warriors
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The Spin Doctors on Iran at the Washington Post
Posted in elections, Fundamentalism, Iran, Iraq, islam, Israel, Middle East, nuclear weapon, Radical, Shia, U.S. Foreign Policy, tagged Americans, democracy, elections, Iran, islam, Israel, Middle East, nuclear, Radical, Shia, terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy on October 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When multiple opinion leaders at one of the most prestigious and widely read American newspapers, emanating from the epicenter of global American power, successively get a major foreign policy topic so wrong and for such obviously nefarious reasons, you have to start worrying about the decrepid state of our civil society. Side by side on [...]
