Posts Tagged ‘Somalia’
A German View of America’s “Af/Pak” War
Der Spiegel | Essay by Dirk Kurbjuweit | 7 July 2010 Afghanistan and the West The Difficult Relationship between Democracy and War Part 1: The Difficult Relationship between Democracy and War Part 2: The Beginning: Terror and Solidarity Part 3: The Course of Battle: The Beast and its Victims Part 4: The End: Aftermath and Innocence Part [...]
Haass: We’re losing this unnecessary war
Newsweek | By Richard Haass | 18 July 2010 We’re Not Winning. It’s Not Worth It. Here’s how to draw down in Afghanistan. GOP chairman Michael Steele was blasted by fellow Republicans recently for describing Afghanistan as “a war of Obama’s choosing,” and suggesting that the United States would fail there as had many [...]
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 [...]
US/Israeli-Al Qaeda Member, Adam Gadahn Arrested in Pakistan
Dirk Bradshaw Blog | By T. West | 4 July 2010 Mossad Pretending to be al-Qaida’s Voice Captured, US Want it Kept Quiet Pakistan indicates they have arrested Adam Gadahn, an Ashkenazi from the state of Oregon. US intelligence claims that it is not Adam Gadahn that the Pakistanis have arrested. Why haven’t we seen this person with the [...]
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 [...]
Yemen: The Next Battlefield
alsharq alawsat | By Tariq Alhomayed | 21 June 2010 Just days after the Al Qaeda organization incited the Yemeni tribes against the Sana government; a new attack took place on Saturday, this time against a Yemeni intelligence headquarters in Aden. This is not to mention the large number of militants who have begun to gather in Yemen from [...]
Vietnam and the Bush-Obama Wars
Antiwar | By William Pfaff | 28 May 2010 Mac Bundy Said He Was ‘All Wrong’ Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam By Gordon M. Goldstein Holt, 300 pp., $16.00 (paper) The debate over foreign policy that culminated in President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on December 1, 2009, concerns a war [...]
Déjà vu: Afghanistan as Vietnam
Global Research | By Professor Alfred W. McCoy | 18 April 2010 From Vietnam to Afghanistan: America and the Dictators From Ngo Dinh Diem to Hamid Karzai The crisis has come suddenly, almost without warning. At the far edge of American power in Asia, things are going from bad to much worse than anyone could have imagined. The insurgents [...]
CIA’s Heads of State
Time Magazine | By Bobby Ghosh | 28 October 2009 Who's Who on the CIA Payroll: A Brief History of CIA Assets Allegations that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother worked for the CIA are a reminder of a long list of distinguished and not-so-distinguished assets There was little surprise among Afghanistan experts and longtime CIA watchers [...]
Planning for the Next War
TomDispatch | By Tom Engelhardt | 2 March 2010 Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it’s never too soon to think about the next war. The subject is already on the minds of Pentagon planners. The question is: Are they focusing on how to [...]
