Dr. Daniel N. Nelson on US Foreign policy, terrorism, US exit from Afghanistan, and India-Pakistan relations.

The sound numbed her ears to a ping and the dust in the house was shaken where it had lain for years in nooks and crannies.

Almost every widely held idea that we currently entertain about 21st Century terrorism and its relationship to the wars against terror is wrong and must be thoroughly rethought.

An average of about 15 tankers carrying 16.5 to 17 million barrels of crude oil pass through the Strait of Hormuz every day. That represents 40% of the world's seaborne oil shipments, and 20% of all world shipments.

On April 30, in sweltering heat, after six years, Britain formally handed over control of the Iraqi port city of Basra to US Army command.

A simple question evoked by an image in a local English daily, showing an old mother hugging the blood-soaked dead body of her teenager son in Baquba, Iraq.

Between 9/11, Afghanistan, Bush and Iraq, a new generation is forming which will define America for the next thirty years at the least. I call it the angry generation.

If an act of mercy is twice blessed, then an act of illegal invasion and brutal occupation has since proved to be doubly cursed for the invaders as well.

Review of "My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House" By Valerie Plame Wilson

Occupied Iraq and Colonial India