by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 23, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeWhat on earth was Barack Obama thinking of when his people were negotiating terms for meetings with the Taliban in Doha? Talk about tossing out the baby with the bath water! There were only two good reasons for the U.S. to invade Afghanistan,...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 21, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeThis hasn’t been a good week for U.S. public diplomacy, though I strongly suspect that savvy PD people had little input vis-à-vis the situations that turned out so badly. Not all U.S. policy was popular when I was in the Foreign Service and...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 14, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Delhi was still the smallish, palimpsest city the British handed over to independent India when I first lived here. I fell in love with the whole of it: the convoluted lanes of old Delhi; the impressive remnants of earlier civilizations; the...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 3, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe The Chinese dragon is frothing at the mouth, according to Delhi dailies. Because Japan is not respecting the cozy monopolistic relationship that China’s been trying to cultivate with India, Shinzo Abe and his government...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 16, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe The count’s still contested here and there—and loudly, especially in Karachi, which is no surprise. But the outcome is clear: the Pakistan Muslim League (N) won enough seats in last week’s parliamentary election to form a government all by...
