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Justifying Afghanistan: Obama’s Got It Wrong
President Obama announces a new comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Friday. Behind him, from left, are policy advisor Bruce Riedel, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, National Security Advisor James Jones, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. AP … Continue reading
Pakistanis Not So Optimistic About US Policy
Taleban supporters in Swat, 21 February 2009.Pakistan pessimism at Obama revampBy M Ilyas Khan / March 27, 2009 Pakistan’s foreign minister may have welcomed the new Obama regional initiative but the immediate feeling among political commentators was generally one of … Continue reading
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Colonial Afghanistan to Receive New Leader
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. Photo: Shah Marai/AFP.US will appoint Afghan ‘prime minister’ to bypass Hamid KarzaiBy Julian Borger in Brussels and Ewen MacAskill / March 22, 2009 White … Continue reading
Ritter: Obama Needs to Learn the Truth About Iran
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, doing his best impersonation of a Bond villain, tours a Russian facility last summer that produces advanced surface-to-air missiles. AP pool photo / Aleksey Nikolskyi.A Lesson in International Gamesmanship: Barack Obama, Meet Team BBy Scott Ritter … Continue reading
Eliminating the Taliban Threat: Not Achievable
How to Leave AfghanistanBy Leslie H. Gelb / March 12, 2009 ONLY if our troop levels hit 100,000 and fighting floods over into Taliban havens in Pakistan will Washington be likely to look hard at the alternative policy for Afghanistan … Continue reading
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America’s Unpleasant Tendency to Bury the Past
Agent Orange Landscape. This area was defoliated with dioxin at the request of the South Vietnamese. The VC were attacking their training bases nearby from the hills. It now looks a bit like Scotland. Photo source.Obama please note: Those who … Continue reading
NATO Has Developed a Strict Scenario to Convey Its Positive Message
A US soldier poses with a dead Afghani man in the hills of Afghanistan.Truth in Reporting: Meaningless to NATO in AfghanistanBy Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog / February 28, 2009 Thanks to Wikileaks, we now know with certainty that … Continue reading
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US Policy in Afghanistan: Destined for Failure?
An Afghan boy walks by a destroyed Soviet made helicopter in Kabul in this picture taken February 5, 2009. February 15th marks 20 years since the last Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan. Moscow’s forces pulled out of the country in … Continue reading
This Is How the US Conducts Foreign Policy
Binyam Mohamed See video below. Letters prove US warningBy Paola Totaro / February 7, 2009 A FLURRY of letters between the British Foreign Office and the US State Department has revealed that Washington did threaten to withdraw intelligence-sharing with Britain … Continue reading
Latin America’s Leftward Electoral Paradigm Shift
Leaders of Latin American nations. Photo: AP.Dirty Business, Dirty Wars: U.S.-Latin American Relations in the 21st CenturyBy Cyril Mychalejko / 27 January 2009 Much is being made across the political spectrum in the United States about Washington’s waning influence in … Continue reading
Chomsky on Obama: ‘The Carefully Framed Deceit Is Instructive’
Obama on Israel-PalestineBy Noam Chomsky / January 26, 2009 Barack Obama is recognized to be a person of acute intelligence, a legal scholar, careful with his choice of words. He deserves to be taken seriously – both what he says, … Continue reading
Questions About Israel’s Use of US-Made Weapons
Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shellsBy Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem and Michael Evans, Defence Editor / December 2008 Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza Strip … Continue reading
