The Kite Runner is a controversial, though sensitive movie. Directed by Marc Forster, it represents a highly straightforward and effective adaptation of author Khaled Hosseini’s international best selling novel with the same name.  However, although it was nominated for two Golden Globes, The Kite Runner has already become a controversial …

NO SIGNIFICANCE need be attached to the visit by some top world leaders to Kabul, Afghanistan, this week, they being essentially a Christmas-eve exercise to cheer up Nato troops from their respective countries.

KABUL, Afghanistan – As the choir of Army soldiers sang a spirited “Frosty the Snowman” under a light snowfall Sunday evening, Lt. Cmdr. Lynne O’Neil bobbed in time and thought of her daughter, Anna.