Posts Tagged ‘Afghan-Taleban’
Afghanistan’s Minerals of Mass Wealth (MMWs)
Reuters (India) | By Sue Pleming | 18 June 2010 Afghan mineral gloss seeks to shift war narrative (Reuters) - U.S. defence officials this week breathlessly touted Afghanistan's untapped mineral wealth as a rare good news story in what may be an attempt to reverse pessimism over the war and its outcome. If the timing of the story is aimed at [...]
Obama’s Choice: Withdraw or Reinforce Failure?
Los Angeles Times | By Doyle McManus | 17 June 2010 Obama's mixed Afghanistan messages Choices are stark: Stick to the timetable and drawdown, or stick it out until the job is done. And so far, he has signaled intent to do both. The news from Afghanistan has been bad lately. The military campaign to win control of Kandahar, the [...]
By Marjah Failure, McChrystal Pushes Karzai into Taleban’s Arms
New York Times | By Dexter Filkins | 11 June 2010 Karzai Is Said to Doubt West Can Defeat Taliban “Mr. Karzai suggested in the meeting that it might have been the Americans who carried it out .” “Last winter, Mr. Karzai accused NATO in a speech of ferrying Taliban fighters around northern Afghanistan in helicopters. Earlier this year, [...]
Americans Failing to Suppress Afghan Resistance to Occupation
DefenseTech | By Greg Grant | 9 June 2010 The “Lone Guerrilla Paradox” and the Failure of COIN Doctrine in Afghanistan The New York Times runs a story today from reporter Rod Nordland in Kandahar about the shift in strategy there away from a military headlined offensive to more aid and reconstruction efforts, with a gradual increase [...]
Bogged Down, McChrystal Postpones the Helmand “Offensive”
New York Times | Editorial | 13 June 2010 Taking Stock in Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is trying to strike a secret deal with the Taliban and Pakistan and doubts that the Americans and NATO can ever defeat the insurgents. Karzai is telling aides that he believed the United States, and not the Taliban, might have been responsible [...]
Die Welt: America is too hard on Pakistan
Quick Translation | Das Original, auf Deutsch Welt Online | By Jacques Schuster | 14 June 2010 The West needs new allies in Afghanistan Time is running out for Western presence in Afghanistan and money for new troops is scarce. We need new ideas. Although it is difficult, given American and European losses: Still you have to have patience in [...]
The Afghan Catastrophe
New York Times | By Bob Herbert | 11 June 2010 The Courage to Leave There is no good news coming out of the depressing and endless war in Afghanistan. There once was merit to our incursion there, but that was long ago. Now we’re just going through the tragic motions, flailing at this and that, with no real strategy or decent end in [...]
NATO Admits Facing Possible Failure in Afghanistan
Quick English Translation | L'Original, en français NouvelObs.com | By Adam Entous and David Brunnstrom | 11 June 2010 "Success is not assured" in Afghanistan, NATO admits BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO's efforts to marginalize the Taliban guerrillas and helping the Kabul government to impose its authority has made "measured progress," but the [...]
Stop this Racist War — U.S. War Veteran
ThePhaedrus83 | By Mike Prysner | 20 December 2009 Amazing Speech by War Veteran In this excerpt from an amazing speech, War Veteran Mike Prysner holds Ammerican racism and their belief in their own superiority as the real drivers of American current wars of occupation. He speaks of the mother, who cried hysterically and told him and his [...]
Afghan-Taleban Statement on the Forthcoming Jirga
Voice of Jihad | 1 June 2010 Statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Regarding the Convening of the So-called Consultative Jirga in Kabul The holding of the so-called National Consultative Jirga under the name of peace is a part of the failed efforts of the invading Americans and their surrogates in Afghanistan. The idea for [...]
