Hillary, Go Home
Fatima Bhutto is a graduate of Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies. She is working on a book to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2010. Fatima lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.
As Secretary Clinton arrives in Pakistan amid pandemonium today, The Daily Beast's Fatima Bhutto says her visit is pure charade-and that American aid is the gift that keeps on taking.
Obama's Pakistan Problem
Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli was appointed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as senior adviser for women’s empowerment. She highlights the importance of women’s empowerment as an element of U.S. foreign policy and designs programs to implement that goal. She spearheads the efforts of the secretary’s Women Leaders’ Working Group, composed of nearly 40 foreign ministers and heads of state, and promotes women’s empowerment through political participation; economic empowerment; education; and justice.
While the president ponders the way forward in Afghanistan, Pakistan looms as perhaps his greatest foreign policy challenge. Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli on how the past can help point the way forward.
Three Cheers for Censorship!
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Yale's decision not to publish the controversial Muhammad cartoons in a new book was the only sane thing to do, Lee Siegel writes. To publish them would have been criminally negligent.
Obama's Afghan Test
Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow at the Saban Center in the Brookings Institution. He chaired President Obama’s strategic review of Afghanistan and Pakistan last winter and is author of The Search for Al Qaeda.
The stakes in Thursday's Afghan election are much higher than who'll be elected president, says Bruce Riedel-it's also a referendum on Obama's war, the Taliban's strength, and even Pakistan's allegiance.
How Hillary Won Over India
Well known Indian journalist M.J. Akbar is the editor of Covert, a fortnightly magazine of current affairs, a blogger and the author of many books, most recently Blood Brothers.
Clinton proved her diplomatic skills in Delhi, says M.J. Akbar, one of India's leading columnists. She knows how to deliver tough talk with perfect nuance and a lovely smile.
Stop Funding My Failing State
Fatima Bhutto is a graduate of Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies. She is working on a book to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2010. Fatima lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.
When Pakisan's president visits the White House next week, he's sure to ask for another handout. But Fatima Bhutto, niece of the late Benazir Bhutto, says the billions of dollars the U.S. gives are merely propping up a government that's capitulating to terror.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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