Operation "Path to Salvation" has been working surprisingly well in South Waziristan. The Pakistani army has cleared the majority of cities and moderate sized towns in the region, squeezing the ever-retreating Taliban into mountain refuges. The...

Ever since the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the UK were posted on the web there has been an enormous brouhaha over the apparent squashing of dissent, massaging of data, and similar sins of both...

Isolationism has once more been on the ascendant in the American public. A recent poll by the very reliable Pew organization shows that the percentage of We the People who want "to mind our own business" and let the rest of the world stew in its own...

The first swamp is, no surprise here, Afghanistan. The early reports (they're all over the web, no real need for links) have it that President Obama, after only three months of study and palaver, and distractions over the "credibility" of Karzai's...

Dr Mohamad ElBaradei, who has often seemed to be Iran's next best friend (in both the usual and lawyerly senses of the term) finally had an attack of blunt honesty in the waning days of his tenure as jefe grande of the UN International Atomic Energy...