Ahead of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s “private visit” to India this month, noted Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid looks at Pakistan’s state of domestic and international affairs. As its relationship with long-time ally, the United States, lurches from one crisis to another, Mr. Rashid describes Pakistan’s handling of its ally, the [...]
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Pakistan On The Brink: Q&A With ...
Ahead of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s “private visit” to India this month, noted Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid looks at Pakistan’s state of domestic and international affairs. As its relationship with long-time ally, the United States, lurches from one crisis to another, Mr. Rashid describes Pakistan’s handling of its ally, the [...]
3000 Days Later
We have now been at war in Afghanistan for 3000 days.
That is all.
Obama’s Nobel Intentions –...
"I come in Peace." 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner President Obama
Oct 6th marked the 8th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan.
On Oct 8th, 17 people were killed in a car bomb attack outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul.
On Oct 10th, 5 sweet men in Norway decided President Obama must be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, not so much for [...]
U.S Army Rapes – The Hidden War
During her deployment in Baghdad, Sandra Lee was raped twice by a fellow American soldier. Back home, she works to draw attention to the rising cases of sexual assault within the ranks. (Photo Credit: Peter Ash Lee)
On Veterans Day, as President Obama laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, he did so with the full knowledge that for Am [...]
Afghanistan – Staying The Cours...
West Point Cadets stand for the national anthem before President Obama's speech announcing an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
So, it has been signed, sealed, delivered – America will be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Watching President Obama address cadets at West Point as he [...]
Afghanistan – A Foggy Future
Quickly reviewing all major post World War II wars, the New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg asks a series of tough questions he would like the president to answer on Tuesday:
Does it make sense, for example, to spend lives and treasure trying to eradicate “safe havens” in Afghanistan when Al Qaeda has so many other—well, options, from Sudan [...]
Afghanistan: The Post-Thanksgiving Ed...
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs has given all Americans something to be thankful for: An American military withdrawal from Afghanistan before 2017: “We are in year nine of our efforts in Afghanistan. We are not going to be there another eight or nine years,” Gibbs told reporters.
Gibbs added that the war was “very, very, [...]
Obama To Announce Troop Surge Tuesday
President Obama will announce his latest greatest war plan at West Point on Tuesday night. The man who spoke of having the courage to tell auto makers to reform their ways in Detroit will make his troop escalation speech in front of a crowd professionally obligated to support the decision’s of their Commander in Chief.
Obama assured the [...]
Afghanistan Troop Increase – No...
Data from the U.S Army reveals that the U.S military is desperately short on available troops as it weighs whether or not to escalate in Afghanistan.
The report shows that the U.S currently has 50,600 active military soldiers and 24,000 reservists who are not currently deployed abroad or at home on mandatory rest from their previous deploymen [...]
Cast of “The Wire” Reunit...
No, not actually. But it was with some amusement this morning that I read about President Karzai’s “Saul of Tarsus” moment, when he discovered his opposition to corruption:
“President Hamid Karzai, after being re-elected for another five years, has dedicated his five years to fighting corruption,” Interior Minist [...]