Posts Tagged ‘Iran’
Moscow – A Home for Middle Eastern Radicals?
RIA Novosti | By Dmitry Babich | 17 February 2010 “...when Condoleezza Rice learned from the news on television that Hamas had won the 2007 elections, she almost fell off of her treadmill. All she could say was 'This is just wrong!' ” The very fact that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow is a major success for [...]
Civilized World Must Protect Iran and Consequently Itself
Pravda.ru | By Lisa Karpova | 9 February 2010 Just one look at the map will tell you...something ominous is brewing. Iran is completely surrounded by elements of the evil empire. Iran is on a hit list. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the empire has drawn up a hit list after which several countries, one after the other, have been [...]
Russia and Germany Ambush Iran for Lack of Confidence in Nuclear Program
Pravda.ru | 7 February 2010 The mysterious and controversial nuclear program of Iran, with ups and downs, agreements and disagreements, followed by confirming statements and denying others, has put the issue under the cloak of suspicion. The West believes that the purpose of Iran's nuclear program is not civil or peaceful, as they say, but by [...]
U.S. Intelligence Community’s Threat Assessment: Country Excerpts
The Threat Perceptions of a Paranoid Hyperpower Admiral Dennis C. Blair, U.S. Director of National Intelligence, presented the Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on 2 February 2010. The public proceedings are available as a video (at the Senate Select Committee on [...]
Will Turkey Vote for Sanctions on Iran?
Reuters (India) | By Ibon Villelabeitia | 5 February 2010 Turkey's balancing act may soon face test on Iran ISTANBUL Reuters) - Even for a country that boasts about being a bridge between East and West, the Middle East and Europe, Turkey's diplomacy this week must have seemed a bit of a perilous balancing act. Underlying unique [...]
Jeff Huber: The Counterinsurgency (COIN) Myth
Antiwar.com | By Jeff Huber | 11, 13 & 18 January 2010 The COIN Myth Part I The U.S. military’s fabled counterinsurgency field manual (FM 3-24) is an authoritative-sounding 281-page volume of balderdash. Even the legend of its origin is a fabrication. Gen. David Petraeus, former commander of forces in Iraq and now in charge of [...]
Full Text of Obama’s State of the Union Speech
Jump to State of the Union 2010 Although directed mainly to domestic matters, U.S. President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address is significant to a global audience for the little that he did say, and that which he didn't. What he didn't say For all the hoopla about how Pakistan is critical to America's military and diplomatic [...]
Text of the Secret Eikenberry Cables Advising Against the Surge in Afghanistan
New York Times | Undated (Probably 25 January 2010) Ambassador Eikenberry's Cables on U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan Jump to: Start of Post | Cable 1: COIN Strategy | Cable 2: Looking Beyond COIN In November 2009, Karl W. Eikenberry, the United States ambassador to Afghanistan and retired Army lieutenant general, sent two classified cables to [...]
Pakistan Will Assist in “Reconciling” Afghan-Taleban to Karzai Government
Times | By Deborah Haynes | 25 January 2010 General David Petraeus: full transcript of interview with The Times Afghanistan It seems that the Pakistanis are talking at all levels to Afghan Taleban and President Karzai will be announcing this reconciliation plan for low to mid-level Taleban... It is really reintegration to be [...]
India Being Groomed to Take Over Afghanistan from US/NATO Forces
The Vancouver Sun | By Jonathan Manthorpe | 6 January 2010 Success after NATO's Afghanistan exit largely depends on India Regional superpower has invested in Afghanistan reconstruction and trade, but that has raised long-held tensions with Pakistan The key to what happens in Afghanistan after the United States and NATO allies including [...]
