Strategic Paradigms by Ehsan Ahrari

It is hard to decide whether the news of the victory of Asif Ali Zardari for the presidency of Pakistan should be celebrated as a victory for democracy, or be viewed as a cause for concern.  Better known as “Mr. Ten Percent” for allegedly receiving his cut from contractors doing business with the Pakistani government [...]

This dispatch from the London Times is a sad commentary on Pakistan, a country that has been pulled between coups and sporadic emergence of democracy.  Pakistan is also a country where both the civilian political elites and the military have been indulging in an endless competition for ineptness and corruption.   The latest dictator, General Pervez [...]

The confluence of the waning months of the Bush presidency—when the lameduck factor is looming large— the continued insistence of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that the U.S. set a timetable of withdrawing from Iraq, the Russian invasion of Georgia, and the forced resignation of General Pervez Musharraf—President Bush’s favorite strongman in Pakistan—are creating a new [...]