Bob Herbert of the New York Times has it right:

…we are still left with a disaster of a war in Afghanistan that cannot be won and that the country as a whole will not support.

Winning in Afghanistan & Pakistan will require that Saudia Arabia stop using our oil dollars to fund the Taliban, their Wahhbi [...]

Farooq Hassan has a new article:
In a historical context, we have yet to conceptually realize the philosophical foundations of the 2008-2009 public affirmation of the country’s [Pakistan] judiciary. I do not recall a single modern historical precedent wherein the elected government of the day was almost swept from its incumbency by popular revolt that resulted [...]

The Country at Stake With Reckless Leadership
By Farooq Hassan
Law & Int’l Affairs Professor — Harvard
I have been in Cairo where I had arrived to talk to the Arab intellectuals of strategic and Islamic affairs. Regrettably then on May 27, the third major terrorist attack in Lahore occurred.
Recent hostilities in the country concerning [...]

Islam: Environmental Protection
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By: DR FAROOQ HASSAN –
Dr. Hassan has published an essay of interest on the Mumbai massacre and Pakistan.
The mental shock on seeing the Mumbai massacre on the TV in my hotel room in Dubai was both abrupt and intense. I left soon thereafter as I was en route to performing the Hajj; but the thought [...]

Posted by: Jock Gill
A great interview on NPR with Thom Friedman. Highly recommended.
Fresh Air from WHYY, September 8, 2008
Thomas Friedman is a man bent on revolution. In his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist writes about the need for a green revolution — and calls upon Americans to [...]

Madrid: 19 July
Dear & eminent colleagues:
I wish to bring you in picture about a truly historic meeting convened here on the invitation of the Saudi monarch. This conference had been convened for a most crucial dialogue between the three monotheistic faiths. Saudi King Abdullah appealed for “constructive dialogue” to end disputes between the world’s [...]

By: Dr. Farooq Hassan, D.Phil.;
BA (Juris),MA,M. LiTT (OXON);
DCL (Columbia),DIA(Harvard);
Sen.Adv.Sup.Ct. (Pakistan),
Barrister at Law (UK),Attorney at Law(US).
Astute analysts on Pakistan are generally astonished that despite the lapse of four months since the February 18 elections, there is no substantive change in the federal governments outlook, image or composition. Indeed even major policies, [...]

[Note: The author of the essay below, Thompson Buchanan, is a retired Foreign Service Officer who has been sickened by the sight of America squandering the great asset of global sympathy and cooperation following 9/11, and the lives and treasure of America through an unjustified “war of choice.” He served eight years in the Soviet [...]

By: Nick Gill
I am a left-liberal Democrat. This is about my dream team. I voted for Hillary Clinton in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. I believed she was a serious, tough, capable, intelligent politician who could do a good job as President. I also liked Barack Obama, but I felt he might be too inexperienced for [...]