Barack Obama has sacked his commander in Afghanistan. But the real worry is that the war is being lost National security adviser of the world’s greatest superpower is a “clown”, its vice-president a nobody and its president “uncomfortable and intimidated”. With those words the officers around General Stanley McChrystal, the American commander in Afghanistan, engulfed…
As Gen. Petraeus assumes control in Afghanistan, the Obama administration needs to demonstrate that its counterinsurgency strategy is working
STORY HIGHLIGHTS * Threats began 2 weeks ago after off-duty officers seized marijuana * Smugglers fled into Mexico and were not detained * Informants say cartel threatens off-duty cops who interfere with smuggling operations
We’ve gotten to a point where society is so unmanageable we must partition ourselves off from every feature of it. With too many fists slung, too much spittle hurled, too many guns pointed, too many bats swung, it has now become necessary for tellers, bus drivers and even cashiers to partition themselves from customers. A…
Venezuela’s ham-handed crackdown on journalists Latin America has never been a particularly accommodating environment for journalists, with threats stemming mostly from criminality (primarily of the narcotrafficking kind) and corruption, as practitioners of those dark arts are all too willing to eliminate anyone that dares to ask impertinent questions about their enterprises. But things have taken…
So, instead of moralizing about corruption or incompetence when we see it in a sports competition, we would be better off sitting back and enjoying the “hand of God” in action.