It was not long ago when a regime created a concept that one religion and one ethnic group were the root cause of all trouble in their land. The regime was Nazi Germany and the ethnic group were Jews. The propaganda of the regime was persistent, pernicious and soon it infected the entire German society. …
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A young man was asked his name in a Louis L’Amour book. He said “they call me Handy”. When asked why, he drawled, “I was handy in a gunfight and so folks began calling me Handy”. In the Wild West, names did not matter much. Where you came from mattered even less. What mattered is what you…
Last Sunday, Sixty Minutes aired their clip of the 2001 defeat of the Taleban Government in Afghanistan. It was a good, positive clip that put to rest the false terminology about the US invading Afghanistan. This clip titled Ex-CIA Operative Comes Out of the Shadows featured CIA Henry “Hank” Crumpton who went to Afghanistan with a…
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Editor’s Note: We tried to reach out to the editors and writers of the WSJ India Edition. Our hope was to engage in a dialogue and seek answers to basic questions we have. Unfortunately, the people at WSJ-Delhi responded with what we perceived as arrogant indifference. Below we lay out our questions and views. WSJ…
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…