In the eight years since Sept. 11, the U.S. has devoted a great deal of funding and thinking to the struggle against radical Islam. There's at least one area where it's fallen short, though: It hasn't mounted a serious economic challenge to the activities and ideologies of terrorist groups on a grassroots level.
Pak: We want PEACE without the strings;
Advanced U.S. aircraft to India;
Indian embassy in Afghanistan struck for second time;
Sri Lanka: civil war over but defense budget rising
China, neighbors harden claims to Spratleys;
CCP bugging cabs in Beijing
The deepening Russo-Venezuelan relationship;
A missile defense victory for Moscow
SECDEF: China focused on “
narrowing strategic options”
of U.S.;
China in $16 billion oil deal with Venezuela