Many in Pakistan reflexively call for a “strongman” to quell violence in Karachi and the rest of the country.
Pakistan: Tragic Trendsetter for Religious, Political, and Ethnic Violence
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Terrorism
Why Not a Fantasy Foreign Policy League?
Military intelligence threat assessments are like a counterterrorism version of fantasy football ratings.
Review: The Interrogator
Glenn Carle has spent his whole professional life operating in the grey world of intelligence. As a case officer for the CIA for over two decades, he spent time in many of the Agency’s most critical outposts, from Nicaragua to Lebanon to Iraq. Yet at the end of his career, when he was “surged” to direct the interrogation of a suspected high-level member of al-Qaeda, he was confronted with the policies of an administration that crossed a line that made him certain that he must stand up against what he knew to be wrong.
Must Be an Oversight: Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, and Debbie Schlussel Left Off Domestic Extremist List
Hard-right commentator Debbie Schlussel claimed Norway’s “HAMAS Youth” got what was coming to them.
Doha Peace Agreement: Khartoum and the Rebel Groups’ Moment of Truth
If the Doha Peace Agreement fails, regional conflict and suffering would be sure to deepen, as would the Bashir regime’s isolation.
The Paranoid Style of Anti-Islamism
There is no denying that Anders Behring Breivik’s manifesto and beliefs are rooted in a distinctly post-9/11 ideology of anti-Islamism.
Pamela Geller’s, uh, Ill-Timed Rants Malign Memory of Utoya Victims
To Pamela Geller, the youths at Utoya were elitist anti-Semites, Hitler youth, not to mention race-mixers.
Iran Eats Nuclear Scientist Rezaie’s Assassination as the Cost of Doing Business
There’s not much that a smaller power like Iran can do when the West assassinates one of its own except roll with the punches.
CIA Vaccination Program to Catch Bin Laden Makes Middle-East Even More Suspicious of Vaccinations
Extremist Muslim leaders have long been skeptical of Western vaccination programs.
Norway: The Enemy Within
Scandinavians have a dual reputation for tolerance and homogeneity: a population of pale, polite people who speak English perfectly. But that’s your grandfather’s Scandinavia. Over the last several decades, the region has become a great deal more diverse after a steady influx of immigrants from the east and south. And the tolerance has become considerably frayed with the more recent rise of several right-wing xenophobic parties.