Remember the drawings that Colin Powell presented to the UN as supposed "evidence" of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction? I'm feeling a sense of deja vu. A recently leaked graph allegedly shows that Iran has dreams of building a nuclear bomb three times as powerful as the one used on Hiroshima ( Read more... )

Some good stuff in today's New York Times:

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  One of the biggest challenges that American and Western forces are facing in efforts to turn Afghanistan into something other than a failed state is the lack of efforts by the Afghan government to address widespread corruption. The affects of corruption on Afghan society are damaging, reflected in things ( Read more... )