OttawaTalking to the TalibanAn interesting moment from Saturday’s state funeral seems particularly timely in light of this news . Mullah Mohammed Omar now...
UncategorizedThe cost of a peace deal in AfghanistanMy second article from Afghanistan is about Afghans opposed to President Hamid Karzai’s Western-backed efforts to reconcile with...
WorldMahmoud Karzai being investigated for racketeering, extortion and tax evasionPrime Minister Hamid Karzai’s older sibling may face charges in the U.S.
GeneralA U.S. neo-con fantasy gone very wrongNation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq is a failed ideological experiment
Ottawa’This is about choices’The prepared text of Jack Layton’s speech today on the mission in Afghanistan.
OttawaRichard Holbrooke’s death: can we make do without outsized diplomats?Do today’s politics allow for it?
OttawaDisclosure, discretion and distrustScott Gilmore, a former Canadian diplomat, explains the importance of diplomatic discretion. Jack Shafer applauded Wikileaks this...
GeneralWhat was that about hearts and minds?In Kandahar, NATO forces have been destroying homes ‘to make them safe.’ Sound familiar?
OttawaWhat’s the difference?Here again is what Jack Layton said four years ago. Here now is what Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who favours the complete...