Clayton Swisher, based in Doha, has covered the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the ongoing war in Afghanistan.
He is author of "The Truth About Camp David" (New York: Nation Books, 2004) and is a term member with the Council on Foreign Relations.
Healthcare and killing bin Laden are two seminal domestic political victories for Barack Obama. But the Arab and Muslim world will look for more substantive policy changes as it is logical the US obsession with al-Qaeda should curtail and change the conversation.
Finally a recent date has come to pass reflecting positively on the people of the Middle East. They richly deserve it.
The former Egyptian intelligence chief's appointment to the post of vice president seems driven by a desire to regain stability with an anti-Islamist, ex-military figure.
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse">America's top Israel lobby is going through a process of discovery - quite literally in the legal sense - and has laid itself bare before the District of Columbia's Superior Court.</SPAN></P>
<P>US Army Colonel Lawrence Sellin gets the sack from his staff job at Kabul Nato/Isaf headquarters.</P>
