Leon DSouza
Leon DSouza is a former newspaper reporter with stints at the Associated Press and The Salt Lake Tribune. He currently serves the U.S. government in uniform.
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Reality TV Democracy and the Road to TyrannyWe've turned politics into a performance art and politicians into entertainers, so that what matters is not how our leaders approach complicated problems, but how they squeeze solutions into 30-second sound bites.
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Iran is Committing SuicideNo country anywhere would accept prolonged volatility along one of the world's most crucial choke points. Threatening the Strait of Hormuz is like asking for a fight with the world. And that's not rational.
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Russia's Anti-Western EruptionThe Kremlin will back anyone -- any regime -- seen as hostile to the West.
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The Problem with IsolationismThe international world order we know today is, in design and reality, an American world order.
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TIME: Pakistan's 'Pus-Filled Wound'Any talk of securing the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan -- a bedrock of current U.S. military strategy -- ignores fundamental realities on the ground.
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A Kinder, Gentler Approach to Pakistan?Islamabad would love to crack down on the militant threat to Pakistan's sovereignty, but without recognition from local tribes, politicians lack the legitimacy to act. Asking them to crack down is, in effect, encouraging terrorism to fight terrorism.
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Why Are We at War in Africa?The LRA's Joseph Kony may be an ugly, brutish, fiend of a man. But he's not the only psychopath worth fighting. So why send 100 U.S. troops to hunt down his terror army across four famously volatile African countries?
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What's Really Behind Occupy Wall Street?While our instantaneous culture may be shaping the 21st century, our cumbersome political institutions and practices are relics of the 18th. -
John Boehner's China SyndromeLet's be clear: The U.S. is already in an economic war with China. And the Chinese, thanks to Washington, are winning. -
Enough is Enough: Palestinians Should Demand the Right to Vote in a Binational IsraelA scattered patchwork of non-contiguous territories can never be taken seriously as a state. And the uninterrupted shrinking of Palestinian space kicks the whole idea of an independent Palestine deep into the realm of political fiction. -
Memo to Rick Perry: Israel is a Strategic BurdenPerry may well have been addressing his remarks to a narrow audience of American Jewish voters, but in an international media environment, political posturing isn't a local sport. -
Buddy Roemer's $100 Bid for the White HouseThe former Louisiana governor wants to make it to the White House on the strength of small contributions from average people — not bundles of cash from shadowy lobbyists.
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Jeff Sachs is Right: America Needs Investment-Led GrowthBuying time with short-term stimulus checks won't put us on a path to sustainable growth. Moreover, it's the wrong medicine for a sickness caused by our economy's structural addiction to debt.
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From Your Congressman with Love: My Six-Figure Salary Ain't EnoughAt a time when Congress' job approval ratings are lingering near an abysmal 20 percent, why should members of Congress be entitled to salaries and fringe benefits that far exceed those of the average American?
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Should Gaddafi Be Tried by the International Criminal Court?The International Criminal Court should act urgently to correct a perception of anti-African bias that threatens its credibility as a guarantor of human rights. -
American Manufacturing: How the Chinese Are Eating Our LunchIt's one thing to have the Chinese assembling our iPhones but quite another to have them building our bridges -- better than we ever could. -
The Debt Deal, Graduate Degrees and the Death of American Economic PowerWhile experts tell us education is a key driver of American growth -- and growth is what's needed to close the deficit -- Congress slashes government support for already burdened graduate students. Anyone else see the policy disconnect? -
Al Sharpton, Rogue ReverendIf Al Sharpton knows all about the shameless ways of lofty corporate tax dodgers, it's because he's a card-carrying member of the club. -
Quick Take: The Debt Dilemma and American ApocalypseAmericans are saying, in no uncertain terms, that they are fast losing faith in the idea of representative government. No party, it seems, will speak for them. -
The Debt Ceiling and Washington's Crisis of MaturityAt the heart of the debt ceiling fight is a base and selfish partisanship, driven by precisely the sort of motives our Founding Fathers feared. -
Barack Obama's TwesidencyA national conversation is a two-way exchange, as much about the questions as it is about the answers. Serious answers tend to follow hard questions, not the kind advanced in Twitter's Orwellian shorthand. -
Nation-building in Afghanistan? Begin with TransportationNation-building is exactly what we're doing in Afghanistan, so we might as well own up to it and get the business right. We could start with transportation. -
Libya: Setting the Record StraightThe real problems with the military intervention in Libya have to do with the manner in which the operation has progressed -- and the chaos elsewhere in the neighborhood that's raising questions about a clear standard for humanitarian intervention.
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A Word on Presidential CojonesThe commander in chief should consider the recommendations of his military advisers and avoid excessive meddling in their operational planning '" but important decisions shouldn't be left to their judgment alone.
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China and the New Cold War in CyberspaceWhether or not the Chinese government is found to be behind the Gmail attacks, the stated position of the Chinese military is that it sees the Chinese state as being engaged in a war. And the United States is enemy number one.
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Memo to Islamabad: The Taliban Are ComingThe May 22 attack on a Pakistani naval base casts a long and ominous shadow over the credibility of Pakistan's nuclear command and control system.
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Iraq and the Nation-Building DelusionAfter hobbling along without a government following the March 2010 elections, Iraq remains without interior and defense ministers. And that's just the beginning of its problems.
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The Petraeus Plan for Victory in Afghanistan -- and Defeat at HomeGen. Petraeus' "counterinsurgency-in-a-box" is a vacuous strategy. To suggest that we could build a sustainable state in Afghanistan in three years is to ignore our own experience in that country and a history that goes back thousands of years.
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Why We Should Have Listened to Biden -- and Not Petraeus -- on AfghanistanPresident Obama must adopt a smarter strategy in Afghanistan. Counterterrorism, not counterinsurgency, should be the way forward.
