British Defense Minister, Liam Fox, to BBC: “Mission accomplished would mean that the Libyan people free to control their own destiny. It is very clear – the international community wants his
“Please Unite Again,” cried out the United Nations Security Council to Libya. By 2014 it looked as if the discord present in the country since Qaddafi’s rule had no end. Civil warfare between
Before I was exposed to the Serial podcast, Bowe Bergdahl was white noise from the five o’clock news my mom played while cooking dinner. Thanks to Sarah Koenig and other investigative journalist
It is hard not to have sympathy for Bowe Berghdal. If you are a listener to Serial, or if you simply have an imagination, you understand that five years with the Taliban was brutal. Though what was
Sovereignty is defined as the legal equality among states, or as political philosopher Jean Bodin describes, “absolute and perpetual power vested in commonwealth.” Historical implications of
To quote Sarah Koenig, “Bowe’s ideal soldier, the one from history, fights for a cause he or she is completely, personally committed to. That soldier rallies behind military leaders that he
An impassive part of Serial’s podcasts is the authority and credibility it gains by using first hand accounts from the people a part of Bowe’s disappearance, one of them being Bowe himself. In
There are multiple government agencies working in the Middle East: MGA, CIA, FBI, DIA, NSA, ABC (kidding). However, despite every acronym that makes up US Forces present in Pakistan, the mission to
I am a futurist and a competitor. I focus. I am restorative. I am a learner. I often ask myself, “where am I headed?” I set goals constantly: for the day, for the week, for the year, and for life
The Taliban is an extremist nationalist group that in 1994 established itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Though that is the simplified version. The Taliban is a complex network of
