Obama’s terror summit bound to fail
The State Department is squabbling over acronyms, the White House may come up empty-handed, and the right is blaming it all on Islam. This week, senior dignitaries from 60 nations are descending on...
View ArticleDoes China agree with Inida’s UNSC aspirations
The trilateral Russia, India and China (RIC) forum concluded its 13th foreign ministers meeting in Beijing on February 2, 2015. Calling for a comprehensive reform of the United Nations, including the...
View ArticleIndo-Pak relations: Waiting for realization
AFTER THE VISIT OF INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY S. JAISHANKAR TO ISLAMABAD, 3-4 MARCH 2015. No two countries in recent history have bickered for so long and with such tenacity as India and Pakistan. The...
View ArticleObama ignores NATO’s Secretary General
President Barack Obama has yet to meet with the new head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and won’t see Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg this week, even though he is in Washington for three...
View ArticleThe fault lines within the drone program
Barack Obama inherited two ugly, intractable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when he became president and set to work to end them. But a third, more covert war he made his own, escalating drone strikes in...
View ArticleMiddle East’s war against whom?
It amazes me that all these warriors of the air don’t regularly crash into each other. Let me try to get this right. The Saudis are bombing Yemen because they fear the Shia Houthis are working for the...
View ArticleThe US-Gulf security partnership: Major upgrade needed
President Barack Obama’s summit meeting with Gulf leaders at Camp David on May 14 will end in failure if the administration does not propose a substantial upgrade in US-Gulf security relations that is...
View ArticleIndia considers options on Af-Pak
The signs of a policy review in Delhi regarding the Afghan situation are encouraging. The National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has criticized the signing of the recent agreement between the spy...
View ArticleObama intensifying anti-ISIL efforts
US president says ISIL will be defeated as US-led coalition bombs 19 positions in Syria and Iraq in last 24 hours. US President Barack Obama has said that the US-led coalition battling fighters from...
View ArticlePutin assures Obama- Russia will continue Assad support
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama exchanged opinions on regulating the Syrian crisis in a telephone conversation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. Russia...
View ArticleWhen all else fails, there’s always the gender card
Since she formally announced her candidacy on June 13, Hillary Clinton has missed few chances to mention her gender. “I may not be the youngest candidate in this race,” the 68-year-old said, to cheers...
View ArticleDecades of bombing Muslims countries
Barack Obama, in his post-election press conference yesterday, announcedthat he would seek an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) from the new Congress, one that would authorize Obama’s...
View ArticleHas Obama lost control of his country
US President Barack Obama’s business-like meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit at the weekend belies a spate of bellicose comments made by the Pentagon towards...
View ArticleMore Muslims are against ISIS, ready to help West
On Oct. 19, 2008, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and secretary of state Colin Powell went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to endorse Barack Obama for president. Troubled by accusations that Obama was...
View ArticleA history of Western terrorism
In transmitting President Richard Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Barack Obama wages his seventh...
View ArticleUS Intelligence sharing on Syria
Seymour M. Hersh on US intelligence sharing in the Syrian war Barack Obama’s repeated insistence that Bashar al-Assad must leave office – and that there are ‘moderate’ rebel groups in Syria capable of...
View ArticleInterpreting the unusual Modi visit to Pakistan
In “The Art of War,” Sun Tzu wrote that “the key to victory is the ability to use surprise tactics.” India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is a man who knows how to spring diplomatic surprises. He...
View ArticleIran’s Nuclear Deal; a dream living short?
It is the hard-fought central pillar of his presidency, an election pledge delivered, but Hassan Rouhani may yet find it difficult to capitalise on Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers. The agreement,...
View ArticleIslamic State will be defeated – Obama
US President Barack Obama on Thursday expressed confidence that the United States would prevail in its fight against the Islamic State, but said that an end to the conflict in Syria would be key to...
View ArticleObama Doctrine may prove to be a line in the sand
The essay by Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic Magazine entitled The Obama Doctrine, here, based on his conversations with President Barack Obama over a period of time riveted on the latter’s “hardest...
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