The other day I was watching Charlie Rose’s interview with Ahmed Rashid. Rashid is a Pakistani reporter who recently wrote a book entitled Descent Into Chaos. Its an interesting interview regarding the current situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Rashid had...
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated the limits of American power. The number of problem spots in the world is not limited however. Consequently, the world has need of other nations that are willing to step up and take a leadership role in international...
I received a very thoughtful comment today to an old post entitled On Zombie Alligators, Global Warming and Occam’s Razor. The comment was by T.H. Culhane. In order that you don’t miss the comment or the response, I figured it’d be better to create a whole...
The notoriously opaque political structure of Iran makes understanding their intentions and worldview difficult. While pondering Iran the other day I remembered something that I often forget: in the last five years the United States as invaded the countries on either...
The United States obviously plays a large economic, political and military role in the world today. But, do we also set the bar for international philanthropy (PDF)? Since 2002, the OECD and the U.N. Millennium Project have attempted to persuade developed nations to...
Lebanon is an incredibly complex society composed of groups that have often found it difficult to live together. After years of civil war, peace slowly came, but only as parts of the country and government were occupied by Israel and Syria. Hezbollah was the proxy...
