US Foreign Affairs

Friday following a controversial trial, an Italian court found the 22-year-old overseas student Amanda Knox guilty of the first degree murder of roommate Meredith Kercher

Dec 6, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

After expulsions from K2, Uzbekistan and Manas, Kyrgyzstan the new American foreign policy may be regaining the support of necessary silent partners north of Afghanistan.

Dec 3, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

The US & Chinese Presidents' chat included Climate Control, North Korea & Iran; however, an ever present underlying theme was the Sino - American symbiotic relationship.

Nov 20, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

Failing to agree on revised Kyoto Protocol emission limits for China & India, President Obama chose Oslo & the Nobel Peace Prize over Copenhagen & global climate control.

Nov 14, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

Not since 1957, when Konrad Adenauer lectured the U.S. Congress, has a German leader discussed world advents with America - and never in a Joint Session of Congress.

Nov 4, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

Recent New Mexico & South Korean visits by high-level DPRK delegations, renewed anticipation about North Korean nuclear proliferation reduction & bilateral American talks

Aug 24, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

South Korea's most famous dissident & first liberal president since Gen. Park Chung-hee took power in a 1962 Coup d' etat, quietly passed away from pneumonia in Seoul.

Aug 18, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

American policy in Afghanistan focuses on a unified central government, while residents identify with their autonomous cultural, ancestral or linguistic group.

Jul 26, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

Police state and axis of evil member, the DPRK, has once again used the American Memorial Day holiday to defy the world and successfully test a small nuclear device.

May 26, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

Following Secretary Clinton's lead, Speaker Pelosi upholds President Obama's Charm China Offensive 11 days prior to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

May 24, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

Washington is to set stringent benchmarks on the Kabul government that will be necessary for the successful continuation of the war on terror.

Mar 28, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

A haven for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters, the Pakistan Northwestern Frontier has been the most difficult region for coalition troops and Pakistan Army forces to control.

Mar 28, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

Iran's continued saber rattling may make unlikely allies of Arab Gulf countries and the United States of America.

Feb 21, 2009 - Frank W. Hardy

The latent crisis of Democracy's collapse, Islamic fundamentalism & fiscal failure in an atomic Pakistan is ignored as America politicizes Iranian meeting preconditions.

Oct 23, 2008 - Frank W. Hardy

With war in Georgia & divergent world opinions; America & the West forgot about rebuffing Russia's UN request for a nonviolent solution to the South Ossetia problem.

Aug 11, 2008 - Frank W. Hardy

Russian expansion into South Ossetia is the latest example of Soviet style aggression. 4 decades after the Prague Spring, Georgians feel today what Czechs felt in 1968.

Aug 11, 2008 - Frank W. Hardy

While Vladimir Putin left China and returned to Moscow to direct the war in Georgia; America's President George Bush remained in Beijing able only to condemn the Russians

Aug 11, 2008 - Frank W. Hardy