US-Taleban Deal – An Unnecessary Overreach, A Political Minefield or Both?
How well is President Trump positioned for the 2020 election? Any one who watched both the adoring rally for President Trump in Cincinnati, OH and the sa...
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Reality Then, Now & Tomorrow – Sinkhole
Remember the May 2013 election & the euphoria that greeted it? It was actually a successful election in the failed “state” that calls its...
Af-Pak – Is The “Transition” Beginning?
This week’s summit between North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and South Korea’s Moon Jae In is momentous. Because the aims announ...
Is “Abyss” a Realistic Term for What Afghan Government Faces?
Remember how the US presence in the Vietnam war ended? In a final exit via helicopters just before the North Vietnamese army entered Saigon. Is that wher...
Syria & Afghanistan – Syrian Rebels & Taleban – Turkey & Non-Pakistan?
In our article about ISIS last week, we wrote: The reality is that virtually no one considers ISIS as their main enemy or adversary. Saudi Arabia & t...
President Obama Punts on Afghanistan
This week President Obama sensibly went back on his promise to withdraw the remaining 9,800 troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2016 and decided to kee...