Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, greets Pakistani Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, after arriving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in 2008. COURTESY OF THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENTThe War Between The ISI And America -- Matt Holzmann, American Thinker
Berhanuddin Rabbani was assassinated the other day at his home in Kabul. After surviving the war with the Soviets and then as a leader of the Northern Alliance against the Taliban it was at the end a peace envoy who detonated a bomb in his turban that killed Rabbani.
Rabbani was nothing if not situationally aware. Surviving for 30 years in the most chaotic and dangerous theater of war in the world means that someone really is trying to kill you at all times. This time they succeeded and have thrown the peace process, which was tentative at best, into chaos. Once again, it has the hallmarks of the ISI at work.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Correcting the record about that Syrian nuclear reactor -- Michael V. Hayden, Washington Post
The Palestinians’ Bid -- New York Times editorial
Palestinians tread carefully to statehood -- Tobias Buck, Financial Times
Palestinians eye a can of courtroom worms -- David Davenport, The Washington Times
In Gaza, opposition to the UN statehood bid is almost as fierce as in Israel -- Donald Macintyre, The Independent
Halting cholera’s rampage in Haiti -- Washington Post editorial
In Brazil, Ministers Fall and the Press Smells Blood: Dom Phillips -- Dom Phillips, Bloomberg
Six reasons why Greece should default -- Michael Schuman, Time
George Osborne: Eurozone has six weeks to resolve financial crisis -- Larry Elliott, The Guardian
China's chance to be our economic saviour -- Dean Baker, The Guardian
Economic crisis: new world, old maps -- Guardian editorial
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