BY SARA SCHONHARDT NEW YORK – President Barack Obama announced a changeover from one war to another Friday when he outlined his timetable for withdrawal from Iraq and committed an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan. The move comes weeks…
Author: Thanassis Cambanis
France Is Back
BY ANITA KIRPALANI Nicolas Sarkozy has struck again with his politics of reform. But this time, by deciding to bring France back into NATO’s military command, he swiped at the mythology of his own political family. It is too bad…
Saving Bashir
BY IVA SAVIC It was a Thursday, December 18th 2003, when 28 year-old Bashir Mutzolgov came back from a day trip to his native town of Karabulak in Ingushetia, one of Russia’s mountainous southern republics neighboring Chechnya. He visited his parents…
Whither Pakistan’s Policy?
BY ROZINA ALI After the death of 173 people in the Mumbai attacks, it was not only India but also Pakistan that feared for its safety. As Indian security forces recovered dead bodies from the November 26 carnage, a…