Soldiers dream in Dari up at the Defense Language Institute (DLI). In Afghanistan, a third of the population, or about five million people, mostly in the north, speak Dari. In Monterey, a tiny fraction of the 3,200 troops studying foreign languages are learning Dari, the Afghan dialect of Pe…

Earlier this week, Congress voted on and passed an amendment to a major spending bill that would loosen the ban on US travel to Cuba. Known as the Flake/Delahunt amendment, the Bush administration has threatened to veto.