Perhaps the disarray that took place among the United States intelligence and security agencies,with their failure to stop what could have been a disastrous terrorist attack in the skies over Detroit on December 25, is what has prompted French President Nicolas Sarkozy to go ahead with his plan. Read the rest of this entry »

After the Christmas day failed terrorist attempt by a Nigerian who allegedly was trained in Yemen by al-Qaeda, talk about going against the terrorists in Yemen was something that many thought could happen. To the point that the Yemeni government had to warn Washington to learn the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »

As we entered a new year, a new decade, we celebrated for a short time on New Year’s Eve making resolutions and wishing that 2010 would be a much better year than the one we just left behind. And yet, when we finally woke up hours later we had to realize that all was not going to be suddenly better and many problems were lurking. Read the rest of this entry »

In 1997 many in the world heard about landmines and their devastating effect because Princess Diana, after a visit to Angola to see some of the victims of these landmines, called for an international ban on them. That same year the Princess died and it seems that much of the world preoccupied with other disasters and terrorism forgot about it. Read the rest of this entry »

The so long awaited decision of Obama on Afghanistan reached us last night from the Military Academy of West Point. While an unemotional gray sea of cadets looked at their commander-in-chief, they and the rest of the world watching heard those words we more or less expected: an additional 30,000 US soldiers were to march into Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »

President Obama is back from his Asian tour and the United States waits for his decision on the Afghanistan war. Eventually it would come and we will hear the positive and negative reaction to whatever he makes up his mind to do. In the meantime it is not as if the military and the administration are paralyzed. Read the rest of this entry »

By December 1, Sweden, the current holder of the European Union’s rotating presidency, was to have passed a measure that would have given the United States wide ranging access to the EU bank accounts, particularly international transactions, as part of terror inquiries. Read the rest of this entry »