‘Analysis & Opinions’ Archives
Embracing “Afpakistan”
Express Tribune | By Arshad Zaman | 1 July 2010 The expression “Af-Pak” that has gained currency despite belated efforts by the U.S. government to suppress it, has not been received well in Pakistan. This reflects probably a perceived slight in being de-linked from India (not that “Indo-Pak” was much liked), and linked to a [...]
Unmanned Drones: Targeted Killing or Collateral Murder?
Antiwar | By by Thalif Deen | 30 June 2010 When a Pakistani-U.S. national pleaded guilty last week to a failed attempt to detonate explosives packed in a vehicle in the heart of New York City, he admitted that one of the reasons he targeted the busy Times Square neighborhood was to “injure and kill” as many people as [...]
When the ‘Right War’ Goes Wrong
Antiwar | By William Pfaff | 30 June 2010 The increasingly dangerous Afghanistan situation is worth analysis at two levels, that of the war itself, the ultimately doomed attempt by the United States to conquer the Taliban insurrection and impose a pro-American government, and the domestic political effect of Barack Obama’s misguided decision [...]
Dead End for Pakistan
The News | By Roedad Khan | 29 June 2010 Heading for the dead end Our moment of truth has arrived. For Pakistan the hour has struck. To borrow the prophetic words of Dostoevsky, "I have a presentiment of sorts that the lots are drawn and accounts may have to be settled far sooner than one might imagine in one's wildest dreams". Terror is [...]
Little change in ‘Chaosistan’
The News |By Rahimullah Yusufzai | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 "...it is amazing that nobody is aware or is willing to talk about the tactics being used by the Taliban to pin down the greatest armies of the world. So many US and Nato generals have been rendered helpless and consigned to oblivion by the superior strategies being applied by [...]
McChrystal was fired for being too soft
WSWS | By Patrick Martin | 29 June 2010 The “Hitler” option in Afghanistan The removal of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the US commander in Afghanistan and his replacement by Gen. David Petraeus is not, as portrayed by Obama’s political apologists, a principled defense of civilian control over the military. Nor is it, as the official [...]
Dire need to counter RAW’s terrorism
By Asif Haroon Raja It is now an established fact that no South Asian state has ever indulged in covert operations or cross border terrorism against its neighbors. The only culprit is India which resorts to this evil practice against all its neighbors, be it Pakistan , Sri Lanka , Bangladesh , Nepal , Maldives , Bhutan , China and Myanmar. [...]
Did McChrystal Run Away from a Losing War?
Consortium News | By Ray McGovern | 24 June 2010 Obama Misses the Afghan Exit Ramp Is President Barack Obama so dense that he could not see why Gen. Stanley McChrystal might actually have wanted to be fired — and rescued from the current March of Folly in Afghanistan, a mess much of his own making? McChrystal leaves behind a long trail [...]
American Jewry on Obama’s Insubordination to Netanyahu
Commentary | By Peter Berkowitz | June 2010 Obama, Israel & American Jews: The Challenge—A Symposium We asked 31 prominent American Jews to respond to this statement: The open conflict between the Obama administration and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has created tensions between the United States and Israel of a kind not seen [...]
U.S. Defence Spending: Bang for the Buck, Zero
Antiwar | By William Pfaff | 23 June 2010 Runaway Defense Spending Not Winning Any Wars In Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, the major places of military interest to the United States today (disregarding the hundreds of other places where American soldiers and agents or mercenaries have been dispatched to suppress one or another outbreak of [...]
