Strategic Paradigms by Ehsan Ahrari

The Obama administration is entering a crucial phase of its existence. President Barack Obama is about to determine his new strategy governing the Afghan war. He has a lot at stake because wars have a bizarre way of making heroes and villains out of presidents and prime ministers.

.!.   The administration of President Barack H. Obama has started the highly intricate process of developing its own strategy with a bang in different regions of the world.  Here are the ingredients of that strategy: multilateralism, looking for a fresh start—which promises to be substantially different from the preceding administration—search for common ground involving [...]

The reported choice of Hillary Clinton as President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State does not make much sense. All presidents come to office with a definite worldview and a vision of America’s foreign policy during their term. Assuming that Obama shares these characteristics with his predecessors, his worldview was not quite similar to that which [...]

The French depiction of a Muslim woman’s practice of her faith as “religious totalitarianism” is clashing with France’s own practice of “secular totalitarianism.”  There is no other way to describe it.  The case in point is a female immigrant of Algerian background, Faiza Silmi.  Her “crime” is her incapacity to assimilate into France.  She was [...]