Posts Tagged ‘Afghanistan’
Afghanistan’s Srebrinica: Massacre, and Mass Graves in Dasht-e-Leili
Physicians for Human Rights War Crimes Video Afghanistan's Srebrenica: Under the leadership of CIA agent, notorious Afghan warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, 2,000 surrendered Taliban fighters were reportedly suffocated in container trucks by Afghan forces operating jointly with the U.S. in November 2001, buried in mass graves in the [...]
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 [...]
America Doomed To Fail In Afghanistan — RNC Chairman
American Chronicle | By Robert Paul Reyes | 4 July 2010 Michael Steele Is Right: America Doomed To Fail In Afghanistan "Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is facing a new test of his leadership over comments he made that appear to question America's military effort in Afghanistan. Video footage that emerged Friday shows [...]
Pravda on Petraeus’ COIN and Human Terrain Strategy
Pravda.ru | By John Stanton | 2 July 2010 General Petraeus’ Magic Bag: Human Terrain System & Covert Ops So General David Petraeus is back on the COIN campaign trail arguing that pacifying the Human Terrain (HT) is his number one priority. Petraeus’ model program for converting an indigenous human terrain that is opposed to US [...]
