November 20, 2009 at 11:36 am
Recognizing they need him as a partner, Washington is shifting to a softer approach in its dealings with re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Journalism Professor Nick Mills, author of “Kazai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan,” has known Karzai since the 1980s. Mills writes in the current issue of Foreign Policy about how [...]
November 13, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Despite President Obama’s call for Hamid Kazai to crack down on corrupution in Afghanistan, the U.S. apparently has little leverage over the Afghan president. Journalism Professor Nick Mills, author of “Karzai: The failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan,” says without a credible “or else” threat, any demands on Karzai are just “dust in [...]
November 13, 2009 at 9:21 am
November 9, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Palestinian President Abbas says he won’t run for re-election, shaking U.S. efforts to promote a Middle East peace accord. Journalism Professor Bob Zelnick, a former ABC News correspondent and author of “Israeli Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza,” says the “potentially tragic” turn of events is the product of President Obama’s weak diplomacy and Israeli PM Netanyahu’s goal [...]
November 3, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Afghan President Karzai’s re-election by default leaves the U.S. in the pre-election dilemma of having to deal with an Afghan government that the people there don’t trust. Journalism Professor Nick Mills, author of “Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan,” says Karzai has consistently failed to make the tough decisions that would [...]
October 28, 2009 at 5:03 pm
In an diplomatic bombshell, the New York Times reports that Afghan President Karzai’s brother – long a suspect in that nation’s opium trade – is on the CIA’s payroll and has been for years. Journalism Professor Nick Mills, who came to know the future president in the ’80s when Mills ran BU’s Afghan Media Project, [...]
October 15, 2009 at 12:01 pm
With reports that most of the Nobel committee initially argued against giving President Obama the 2009 Peace Prize, former U.S. Ambassador Charles Stith, director of BU’s African Presidential Archives and Research Center (APARC), makes the case in a Bay State Banner commentary for awarding the honor.
“The Nobel Committee gets something that seems to elude the [...]
September 23, 2009 at 12:04 pm
President Obama reportedly is looking at alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including possibly scaling back U.S. forces and refocusing on chasing Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan. Journalism Professor Bob Zelnick, a former ABC News Pentagon correspondent, has reservations about the shift in policy.
“Bowing to political pressure from his own party’s left, [...]
September 16, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Israel has dismissed the UN fact-finding mission’s recommendation that the Israeli government launch an independent investigation into “serious violations” of international law during last year’s war in Gaza. Journalism Professor Bob Zelnick, a former ABC News Middle East correspondent and author of “Israeli Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza,” says the UN report authored by South African jurist [...]
September 15, 2009 at 8:54 am
Presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah has accused incumbent Hamid Karzai of treason and called for a criminal probe into alleged election fraud. College of Communication Professor Nick Mills, who has know Karzai since the 1980s when Mills ran BU’s Afghan Media Project, says such language borders on insurrection.
“He wants Karzai out of the palace even before [...]
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