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Graft, Corruption and Cheap Politics in America are Winning the War for the Taliban
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
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The realities of power in Afghanistan have shifted, changed permanently. Even if analysts existed who understood Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the other countries of this region, their history, their people and why war and threat of war is a...
Tags: Taliban Gordon Duff Salem-News, Afghanistan, Pakistan, American, India, McChrystal, Congress, Kabul, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, War in Afghanistan, War on Terrorism, Islamism, Counter-terrorism, Islamic terrorism, Politics
Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 days ago
Credibility Robert Naiman, t r u t h o u t News Analysis Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome?...We're shocked, shocked that the Afghans have sullied our morally immaculate occupation of...
Tags: Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan, American, al qaeda, McChrystal, Qaeda, Afghanistan, Kabul, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Mohammed Omar, Stanley A. McChrystal, Islamism, Islamic terrorism, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict
Majority of Americans oppose sending more troops to Afghanistan
Given the casualties the US is suffering since Obama sent more troops in the Spring and given all the electoral fraud it is not too surprising that many Americans are against sending more young American soldiers into the fray. Americans are split...
Tags: US Afghan mission, Obama, McChrystal, Troop levels in Afghanistan
Brown hopeful of defining Afghan strategy
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 10 days ago
Credibility Brown said he had "taken responsibility" for shoring up international support for the effort in Afghanistan, saying the "burden-sharing will happen," the BBC reported. He told the BBC British strategy aligns with that of the United States, where President...
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, president barack, McChrystal, Britain, Gordon Brown, Mr Karzai, Kabul, Military of Pakistan, South Asian Foreign Policy of the Barack Obama administration, War in North-West Pakistan, War in Afghanistan, Taliban, AfPak, Politics, War Conflict, Military of Afghanistan, Taliban insurgency, Afghan presidential election, Hamid Karzai, Karl Eikenberry, International Security Assistance Force, Afghan National Army, Stanley A. McChrystal, Elections in Afghanistan, Peter W. Galbraith, Karzai, Pashtun people, Nick Clegg, Jan Schakowsky, Jeff Miller, Place of birth missing
Ignoring the math of disaster: political folly
Whether in Kabul, London, Washington or Pretoria global leaders appear to believe that big mouth is more important than sound math. Let’s take the United States and the United Kingdom. Battling with two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – the...
Tags: US, Iran, Britain, war, Pakistan, Russia, nuclear, banks, Bagram, India, McChrystal, Nobel Peace prize
Casualties in Afghanistan Pile Up as Obama Ponders Politics of Decision of Adding Troops
October is turning out to be one of the deadliest months for American troops since the war began. And despite having a formal recommendation for an additional 40,000 troops from General McChrystal on his desk since August 30th, President Obama seems intent...
Tags: Obama, McChrystal, Afghanistan
John Kerry says, “too early for more troops in Afghanistan”! I ask, why fight a LOST WAR?
Cost of War in Afghanistan $229,453,573,956 and counting! Even if Afghanistan were to be bombarded using Kennedy memorabilia and nothing else (as in the Dan Wasserman cartoon above) it would still cost $ 20 million to the defense...
Tags: John Kerry, troops, Afghanistan, fight, LOST WAR, Afghan, Soviet Union, Barack Obama, commander-in-chief, Hamid Karzai, Pakistan, McChrystal, war, World War II, myVox, Nobel Peace Prize, winner
McChrystal actually wants 80,000 more troops in Afghanistan.
Of course McChrystal is unlikely to get 80,000. Perhaps the whole idea is to make the 40,000 or 45,000 to look like some sort of golden mean. Obama loves a compromise it seems. Usually as with his health care bills the compromises end up...
Obama: Taleban can be involved in Afghanistan future!
The arrogance of this will be completely lost no doubt to most commentators. The Taleban have long been part of Afghanistan's scene and certainly unless the US and its allies attempted some scorched earth policy it will be part of the...
Tags: McChrystal, US strategy in Afghanistan, Obama, Joe Biden
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