US report says al-Qaida gaining strength

By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida has rebuilt some of its pre-Sept. 11 capabilities from remote hiding places in Pakistan, leading to a major spike in attacks last year in that country and neighboring Afghanistan, the Bush administration said Wednesday.
Attacks in Pakistan more than doubled […]

Deterring
the
Undeterrable

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, April 18, 2008;
The era of nonproliferation is over. During the first half-century of the nuclear age, safety lay in restricting the weaponry to major powers and keeping it out of the hands of rogue states. This strategy was inevitably going to break down. The inevitable has arrived.
The six-party talks on North Korea […]

 
John R. (Jack) Farrington Major General, USAF (Retired)

Middle East Imperative

October 16, 2007

BY: JIM CASH, Brig.  Gen., USAF, Ret.

I wrote recently about the war in Iraq and the larger war against radical Islam, eliciting a number of responses.  Let me try and put this conflict in proper perspective.
 
Understand, the current battle we […]

McCain seeks to reintroduce himself

By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer 18 minutes ago
PHOENIX - Sen. John McCain is finding out what the Republican presidential nomination is worth this week. Then he plans to buff his foreign policy credentials, remind the nation of his long military history and try to frame the issues for the November […]

Pakistan Rivals Join to Fight Musharraf
 
By  JANE PERLEZ
Published: March 10, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The leaders of the two major political parties here, in an unexpectedly strong show of unity against President Pervez Musharraf, agreed Sunday that they would reinstate the judges fired by the president and would seek to strip him of crucial powers.

The accord […]