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When the Soviet Union disintegrated, most Americans likely had never heard of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan.
Yet the ethnonationalism of these Asian peoples, boiling to the surface after centuries of tsarist and communist repression, helped tear apart one of the great empires of history.
There swiftly followed the collapse of Yugoslavia.
Yet, if one knew nothing of [...]
Actually, Joe set himself up. From the moment he set foot on Israeli soil, our vice president was in full pander mode.
First, he headed to Yad Vashem memorial, where he put on a yarmulke and declared Israel “a central bolt in our existence.”
“For world Jewry,” Joe went on, presumably including [...]
Philip Jenkins has written some remarkably timely pieces before, but perhaps never one as painfully so as his latest essay for TAC, “Third World War,” which looks at the struggle between Islam and Christianity in the Global South and begins with an anecdote about bloody riots in Jos, Nigeria — which this weekend saw more [...]
Did Robert Gibbs let the cat out of the bag?
Last week, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the world that Iran, unable to get fuel rods from the West for its U.S.-built reactor, which makes medical isotopes, had begun to enrich its own uranium to [...]
Filed under: World
They are called the PIGS — Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. What they have in common is that all are facing deficits and debts that could bring on national defaults and break up the European Union.
What brought the PIGS to the edge of the abyss?
All are neo-socialist states that provide welfare for poor people, [...]
I’m really surprised that banker David Hale’s out-of-box solution to Guantanamo – and perhaps to Jihadi terrorism – not to mention Iceland’s financial problems, has not received more attention. In an op-ed in the Financial Times – that could have been published in The Onion — he proposed that the U.S. ship the Guantanamo prisoners [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, World
Newsweek comes to announce that Neoconservatism never really died. In fact, we’ll be living with their progeny for some time:
At his invitation, Frederick and Kimberly Kagan, an odd sight in flak jackets, have taken seven inspection tours of Iraq since April 2007. “They don’t have kids, so this is their child,” Petraeus said in a [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, History, Uncategorized, War, World
As intelligence agencies rush to connect more dots on a page so crowded with dots that they already almost touch, Americans need to focus on the real problem, our foreign policies. We have made ourselves the enemy of over a billion people, nearly a quarter of the world’s population. Aside from President Obama’s Bush-sounding, [...]