Guest Post by Katherine Tiedemann: Leaving Waziristan

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Katherine Tiedemann is a program associate at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. President Obama has shown his willingness to continue President Bush’s method for combating militancy on the Pakistani side of the Afghan/Pakistan border, ordering CIA-piloted QM-1 Predator drones to strike militant targets in Pakistan approximately once a week since he took office.

MEDIA ALERT: Keith Olbermann’s Countdown Tonight and Diane Rehm Tomorrow

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Tonight at approximately 8 pm EST I will be on Countdown with Keith Olbermann to discuss President Obama’s first major overseas trip, the G-20 Economic Summit as well as the NATO Summit — which will likely focus on the President’s newly released Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy.

The Unintended Consequences of Taxing Bonuses: Increased US Political Risk

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This post was written anonymously by a former investment banker. As a former investment banker, I know that my views on the taxation of bonuses will be immediately suspect. So let me start by stating unequivocally that many on Wall Street and in the global financial services sector have acted in an indefensible manner.

Let Turkey and Armenia Work Out Their Differences

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Armenian President Serzh Sargsian and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at Davos. The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that the administration is reconsidering President Obama’s campaign promise to declare that the Armenians were victims of a genocide during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire nearly one hundred years ago.

Guest Post by Lawrence Wilkerson: Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay

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Lawrence B. Wilkerson was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell and is chairman of the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative. There are several dimensions to the debate over the U.S.