the Cable guy always comes when you’re away in Kenya.

In one of the most shocking cables the President of Yemen tells General Petraeus, in reference to the United States’ role in missile strikes against local Al Qaeda forces, that “we’ll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours.” (Jan. 4, 2010)

 

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Additionally, US diplomats abroad have been asked to gather information about foreign officials and their “credit card account numbers; frequent-flier account numbers, internet e-mail addresses, web site identification-URLs” etc.

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“Boren Scholarships are funded by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), which focuses on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study deemed critical to U.S. national security…Preference is given to students who will make a commitment to work in the federal government.”

 

Militants of Al Shabab based in Somalia, an organization and country that has ties with Yemen and is critical to my Boren.

fml.

Youthfully Situating Gender: Afghanistan.

This semester I started writing opinions pieces for The Ram on topics I actually care about (and not about video games and partisan politics).  The first article I wrote was inspired by a NYT piece on the Afghan practice of dressing up young girls as boys for economic and social benefits.

Although butchering some of the philosophy I try to employ, in the article I voice my opinion about the abhorrence of this backward-minded process.

Read it all here: http://www.theramonline.com/opinions/afghans-cross-dress-children-for-prestige-1.2356784

On the left, Mehran, proudly dressed as a boy under the practice of "bacha posh."