Posts Tagged ‘Af-Pak’
Baloch Leader, Habib Jalib, Laid to Rest
The News | 14 July 2010 Habib Jalib laid to rest after funeral prayers QUETTA: Secretary General of Balochistan National Party (BNP) Habib Jalib, who was assassinated Wednesday morning in a firing incident, has been laid to rest here in his ancestral graveyard. The deceased’s funderal prayer was held near the above graveyard and attended [...]
US CENTCOM Chief, Gen. Mattis: It’s fun to kill people
Common Dreams | By Tom Turnipseed | 13 July 2010 Killing For Fun; Military Madness Successful professionals enjoy their work. The Obama administration has picked a successful and happy warrior in Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis to head the US Central Command. The command includes all US forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, the entire Middle East [...]
Mortenson’s “Three Cups of Tea”
In a brilliant reflection on Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea, Nosheen Ali exposes how the book constructs a patronising and misleading narrative of terror in which the realities of Northern Pakistan and Muslim life-worlds are distorted through simplistic tropes of ignorance, backwardness and extremism, while histories of US geopolitics and [...]
British Marines Pinned Down in Sangin
Telegraph | By Thomas Harding | 10 July 2010 Keeping sane in Sangin: life and death in Afghanistan's most perilous military posting More British troops have been killed in Sangin than anywhere else in Afghanistan. Thomas Harding visits a base where marines eat, rest, sleep, fight - and sometimes die. Flanked by deep green orchards on one [...]
Republicans might turn against war
Seattle Times | By Danny Westneat | 10 July 2010 Joe Colgan has been protesting America's wars so long he thought he'd heard it all. But even he's been startled by what's happened these last few weeks. Suddenly anti-war talk is coming from the unlikeliest place — from the right wing of politics. "I don't know whether to be happy [...]
Why Afghanistan is a lost cause
San Francisco Chronicle | By Joel Brinkley | 11 July 2010 As Gen. David Petraeus assumed his new command in Afghanistan earlier this month, he took up a strategy that has already failed - though not for the reasons most people assume. Certainly, as most everyone knows, the battle plan appears hopeless. Every night in Marjah, Taliban [...]
A German Critique of Obama’s War
Globkult Magazin | By Walther Stützle | 16 April 2010 (Lecture and discussion. East-West Forum - Gut Gödelitz, January 23, 2010) Afghanistan — The Failed Invasion (Translated from the German) English Translation: Afghanistan – The Failed Invasion I. False Start | II. Balance | III. Way out | IV. Concept Original in German: Afghanistan [...]
Mullah Omar Captured? Taleban Deny It
Pravda.ru | ByIvan Tulyakov | 7 July 2010 US Blogger Captures Talib No. 1 Read the original in Russian The authorities of the United States and Pakistan refused to conform the rumors about the capture of Taliban movement leader Mohammad Omar, aka Mullah Omar. A US blogger, who posts under the screen name Bred, posted a message on the [...]
The Mirror of 1776
Huffington Post | By David Bromwich | 3 July 2010 "Things are in the saddle,/ And ride mankind." The words were written by Emerson in a poem about the Mexican war--the first crisis that took America out of itself. The second such crisis was the Spanish-American war, and we are now in the middle of the third. The extent of our empire would [...]
Restrepo: A Look at the War in Afghanistan
Ares | By Paul McLeary | 6 July 2010 Update: See a critical review by Nick Turse During the 90 minutes it took for an invited audience to sit though a screening of Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s new documentary about the war in Afghanistan last Monday night, the Department of Defense announced the deaths of six more American [...]
