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Why Obama Should Learn to Love the Bomb
Jonathan Tepperman 8/29/2009 12:00:00 AM
On Sept. 24, President Barack Obama will bring together 14 world leaders for a special U.N. Security Council meeting in New York. On the agenda: how to rid the world of nuclear weapons. The summit is the latest step in the administration's campaign to eliminate nukes, a priority Obama stressed on the campaign trail and formally announced in April during his speech in Prague. U.S. attempts to stop Iran from acquiring the bomb and to pry the weapons out of North Korea's fingers are also key parts of this campaign.
Drone On
Anita Kirpalani 7/8/2009 12:00:00 AM
The Obama administration's much-heralded new strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak, as the portfolio has been called) is to pour in piles of cash to develop the countries being rent by militias like the Taliban. But the plan is much more equivocal about the tactics for combating those groups. Under Gen. David McKiernan, the previous U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Predator drones were a primary tool for engagment, but since the man who replaced him, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has announced a mandate to limit civilian deaths, experts thought drone attacks would abate. Not so far, according to this week's news.
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5/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
To understand how Dear Leader managed the turnaround, it's important to debunk a few myths. First, the North Koreans haven't been living in caves for the past two decades. Instead, with help from Beijing, Pyongyang has revamped its outdated infrastructure, including important mining facilities. Second, the North doesn't have to rely on the black market to support itself. True, Pyongyang has sold missiles to Iran, Syria and Pakistan, but annual revenue from such exports is only about $100 million, and other illicit activities like drug trafficking and counterfeiting add very little to that sum.
Between Delhi and D.C.
Sumit Ganguly 5/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
Since the Congress Party's huge win in India's elections was announced on May 16, pundits across the country and in the United States have predicted that the warming relations between Delhi and D.C. are now sure to grow even closer. After all, Congress has finally rid itself of the troublesome coalition partners that were holding it back; surely now it will press forward on the issues that matter most to Washington, such as strengthening the two countries' budding security partnership.
Pakistan’s Anger
Eleanor Clift 5/22/2009 12:00:00 AM
I was told that the five female members from the Pakistani Parliament visiting Washington this week were interested in women and politics in America, and so I was unprepared for their real agenda, which was to tell the media how disappointed they are that President Obama has adopted his predecessor's policies when it comes to Pakistan. They shouldn't have been surprised. Obama said during the campaign that he would fight the Afghanistan war harder. The escalation impacts the Pakistani side of the border, which serves as a sanctuary for Al Qaeda, and is likely where Osama bin may someday be found.
VIEWPOINT
E Pluribis Islam?
Irshad Manji 4/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
At a recent event in India, I asked Pakistan's former president, Pervez Musharraf, whether he would support his country's tireless human-rights activists. He invited me to pose a different question. I didn't.