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 →With Anti-American sentiment high in Pakistan from the continued drone strikes and the war on terror, a recent news report disclosed that the United States is planning a massive expansion of its diplomatic missions in Pakistan. While the State Department continues to claim that the expansion is to replace an already overcrowded, dilapidated and unsafe [...]
Read more →First, it was Christopher Hitchens that took the challenge to prove that waterboarding was not torture. His view changed after 15 seconds being waterboarded. Then, Sean Hannity said on his show that he would be waterboarded for charity taking the debate about torture to a sick level – as if it was a comedy. Now, [...]
Read more →The mounting tensions in Pakistan were brought home to me personally when I learned that the United States Central Command has rejected on security grounds the visit of Patrick Cronin to Pakistan today.To be clear, although Cronin had received clearance for the Pakistan visit from those in command in Pakistan, his visit was yesterday rejected because “facts [...]
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 →You can’t script something better than what has happened to Rep. Jane Harman of California. Last month, Rep. Harman tabled a bill in the United States House of Representatives to sanction and limit any foreign aid to Pakistan based on “access to AQ Khan.” Rep. Harman called AQ Khan “Mr. Khan is again a loose [...]
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