Posted by The Foundry on May 24th, 2013 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as 9/11, afghanistan, eric holder, iraq, pakistan, politics, president obama, terrorism
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…” These were words President Obama never used during his speech at the National Defense University yesterday. Rather, he said anything but anything…
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Posted by The Foundry on May 23rd, 2013 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as afghanistan, iraq, pakistan, politics, terrorism
Today, President Obama acknowledged the myriad terrorist threats around the world during his remarks at the National Defense University. Yet his description was much rosier than reality: “Today, the core of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on a path to defeat.” That point is debatable by itself, but it more importantly glosses over the…
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Posted by The Foundry on May 15th, 2013 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as pakistan, president obama
Transparency is not one of the Obama Administration’s greatest strengths. Walter Pincus of The Washington Post mistakes congressional efforts to better understand the Administration’s nuclear weapons plans for “congressional dysfunction.” Pincus is referring to chairman Mike D. Rogers’s (R–AL) efforts to block the Administration’s request to provide $75 million in fiscal year 2014 until it…
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Posted by The Foundry on May 10th, 2013 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as afghanistan, elections, freedom of speech, pakistan, terrorism
In the lead up to the historic May 11 elections, the Pakistani Taliban (also known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP) and other radical Islamist groups are attacking Pakistani parties that they deem too “secular”—mainly parties in the ruling coalition. The TTP are using high-profile terror attacks as a strategic tool to disrupt Pakistan’s, to…
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Posted by The Foundry on May 9th, 2013 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as freedom, pakistan
To lead the nation always under threat from North Korea, backbone is required. As the president of South Korea has demonstrated over her past two days in Washington, she is a vital figure at this time in history. Park Geun-hye has been referred to as the “Iron Lady of Korea.” It is a fitting moniker…
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Posted by The Foundry on April 30th, 2013 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as afghanistan, epa, georgia, new york, pakistan
The North Caucasus has emerged as an ungovernable safe haven for terrorists, as the government of Russia is at the end of its wits as to how to stem the Islamist insurrection. The brothers who allegedly undertook the Boston Marathon bombing and reportedly planned to hit Times Square in New York, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,…
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Posted by The Foundry on April 24th, 2013 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as climate change, John Kerry, pakistan, sovereignty
Even as tensions remain high around the disputed Senkaku islands, China appears to be asserting its sovereignty elsewhere along its periphery. Indian officials have accused China of a deep incursion into the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region, with Chinese forces reportedly 10 kilometers inside Indian territory. While there have been regular Chinese probes across the…
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Posted by The Foundry on April 24th, 2013 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as climate change, John Kerry, pakistan, sovereignty
Even as tensions remain high around the disputed Senkaku islands, China appears to be asserting its sovereignty elsewhere along its periphery. Indian officials have accused China of a deep incursion into the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region, with Chinese forces reportedly 10 kilometers inside Indian territory. While there have been regular Chinese probes across the…
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Posted by The Foundry on April 24th, 2013 | Categorized as Homeland Security, Network Posts | Tagged as 9/11, afghanistan, al qaeda, fbi, iraq, new york, pakistan, revolution, terrorism
Canadian police announced on Monday that they had arrested two foreign men plotting to derail a passenger train and who had received some unspecified form of support from al-Qaeda personnel based in Iran. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that Raed Jasser, a 35-year-old Palestinian living in Toronto, and Chiheb Esseghaier, a 30-year-old Tunisian living…
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Posted by The Foundry on April 23rd, 2013 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as afghanistan, epa, national security, pakistan, united nations
Drug wars have plagued Asia for decades, and the drug problem continues to stem the tide of economic growth and development in the region. A recent study released by the United Nations noted that Afghanistan, the number one opium producer in the world, may soon be producing over 90 percent of the world’s opium supply,…
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