Monday, January 31

How Beer Saved the World

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The Awesomer website cautiously announced ahead of the hour-long documentary's premiere on January 30, "We're not sure if the...
Wednesday, January 26

What Pentagon, State Department, U.S. and other civilian NATO leaders could learn from Tabatha Coffey's lessons in hair salon management

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I refused to watch "Tabatha's Salon Takeover" reality series on Bravo cable TV during its first two seasons. "It's a...
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Tuesday, January 25

Amrullah Saleh on 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul and ISI complicity; Pundita on Washington's failure to grasp the meaning of policy

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CIA officers who know Amrullah Saleh have described him as "brilliant" but Saleh has always been reluctant to say much on the reco...
Monday, January 24

First stop Pakistan military's modus operandi in Afghanistan, then talk to me about defining U.S. success in Afghanistan

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The following are comments I entered at SWJ (Small Wars Journal) blog after a reader sent a link to a post there titled Defining Success in...
Wednesday, January 19

Pundita falls in love with a Pakistani attorney. I hope his goats and cousins don't mind. (UPDATED 2:00 PM)

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UPDATE Crikey! The guy has a fan club. Received the following from a reader whose opinion I respect. Glad to see from his note that my snap...
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"The Quaid-i-Azam has a bad cold:" Margaret Bourke-White's piercingly accurate report on 1947 Pakistan and its lessons for today.

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Best friends forever, before they stopped being friends Many thanks to the reader who sent a link to excerpts from Margaret Bourke-White...
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Friday, January 14

Lord of the Flies, American version

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This has been a troubling week in the United States, at least I found it troubling -- not only the massacre of innocents in Tucson by a man ...
Monday, January 10

In Memoriam

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For the victims of the shootings in Tucson With prayers for the full recovery of the wounded .
Thursday, January 6

The ghost

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The problem for Obama, Mullen, Gates, Clinton, Petraeus and all their advisors is that they cannot comprehend what life was like for Pakista...
Tuesday, January 4

Rural Africa takes a running leap and vaults into the vanguard of the modern era

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A social revolution, driven by cell phones and cheap portable energy technologies, has been taking place in the world's most remote rura...