Is al Qaeda outdoing the U.S. on truth telling?

in the news | December 23, 2013

CNN

Peter Bergen:

Yet, in Yemen where the U.S. has been fighting a small, undeclared war for the past four years, we have now arrived at the ironic point where America's main enemy there, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, is doing a better job of truth telling than the U.S.

Read the article in CNN

Related Content

Obama’s Foreign Policy

From Ukraine to the Middle East to China, the United States is redefining its role in international affairs.

International Security
Sony pulls movie, amid reports linking North Korea to hack

The film’s cancellation “changes this from a joke, to them incentivizing attacks on other people,” said Peter Singer, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, who has written extensively on cybersecurity.

International Security
Root for oil prices to go back up?

American drivers across the country are rejoicing at falling gasoline prices, but the world's oil producers are understandably less thrilled at the drop in revenues. That discontent could devolve into something more serious: instability, and even unrest.

International Security