As Gore Vidal said once, “we are the United States of Amnesia.” We are. We don’t read. We don’t know other languages. We don’t study our own history. Our history is the history of an idea – an imperfect idea. Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines hosted a fantastic debate of various experts discussing the Bush legacy [...]
Read more →Governments and people are challenged to make difficult decisions each day. For most nations, those decisions are about the rights of citizens, the defense of an idea, or the solution of a problem. Few nations must make decisions that include the fight for their very existence against its own citizens. Today, Pakistanis, both inside and [...]
Read more →The Crusades begin in Afghanistan! A U.S. church raised money to send Bibles, printed in the Pashtu and Dari languages, to American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, a report on Al Jazeera documented Sunday night. It is against military rules to proselytize — a regulation one of the soldiers filmed by the network readily acknowledged. “You [...]
Read more →I saw this movie today and have to recommend it to anyone who wants to see the consequences of torture. Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney, and produced by Eva Orner and Susannah Shipman, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The film [...]
Read more →Newsweek International has an interesting story penned by Fareed Zakaria about how the world should accept that a radical Islam exists and how to live with it. It is not just in the Swat valley that Islamists are on the rise. In Afghanistan the Taliban have been gaining ground for the past two years as [...]
Read more →Anxiety continues to grow in India over the Obama presidency, says John Elliott on The Daily Beast. Pakistan has firmly believed that India had a special place in George W. Bush’s heart from turning a blind eye to the activities in Kashmir to the nuclear deal that allowed India to buy nuclear hardware from the [...]
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