Forget Red Lines: Obama Should Eat His Words on Syria.

Taliban murdered an Indian woman who wrote about her escape from Afghanistan in the 90s. She returned to Afghanistan later.

The Taliban's oppression of women is the reason that I supported the conquest of Afghanistan in 2001. If I could snap my fingers and kill all the Taliban, I would do it immediately — but there is no way to do that, and with no better leader than Karzai to oppose them, it is impossible to defeat them in Afghanistan. Defeating them would require many Afghans to be determined to fight them, not just to dislike them.

An army of Afghan women, who would prefer death to surrendering to the Taliban, might have been able to defeat them.

Nigeria plans to follow the US example with unlimited snooping on portable phones.

Republicans still pretend that the poor in the US are "unwilling to work" as an excuse to cut the food stamps that they depend on.

Of course, they are responsible for the policies that result in not enough jobs and low pay. They kick Americans coming and going.

There is no way to prevent the FinFisher repression software from falling into the hands of repressive states such as Bahrain.

The article says that FinFly can attack "any" computer, but in fact that depends on what system is running. Perhaps it attacks mobile phones through the universal back door that they all have.