Last week was dominated by the leaked military documents released by the website Wikileaks. The leaked papers prove beyond a shade of doubt to any unbiased reader that ISI, Pakistan’s Intelligence Service, has been assisting the Taleban in attacking US forces in Afghanistan while its parent & supervisory body Pakistani Panjabi Army calls itself the indispensable ally of America in fighting the Taleban. None…
To describe Bruce Riedel as an expert in Af-Pak is to engage in severe understatement. A former CIA officer, Bruce Riedel served as senior advisor to three U.S. presidents on Middle East and South Asian issues. At the request of President Obama he chaired an interagency review of policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan for the White House that…
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The most elementary rule of Mathematical Logic states that [Clause A implies Clause B] is logically equivalent to [negative Clause B implies negative Clause A]. In syntax, this reads as (A → B ) is logically equivalent to (– B → –A). Our framework for the Afghan problem has been simple and historical. Afghanistan was partitioned into…
Editor’s Note: Our previous article on this topic was New York Times vs. Washington Post – IV – Pakistan-Afghanistan. This article is, in a way, an extension of the previous article. We have written four previous articles about the differences we see between the New York Times & the Washington Post. The quality of these newspapers is…
Until recently, we had never heard of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. But a few days before the Fourth of July weekend, a reader from Mumbai sent us a Times of India article about a research paper on the health benefits of eating Chocolate published in this august Journal. (A journal that lauds eating…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
Vietnam has been described and analyzed in many ways and from many viewpoints. It was one of the longest running conflicts in US history. In the end, it turned out to be an enduring defeat of America’s vision, approach and battle plans. The reality is that the Vietnam War was a war for the unification…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…