Posts Tagged ‘Somalia’
Obama’s Af/Pak Speech: We’ll Escalate, While Retreating
Spiked | By Sean Collins | 3 December 2009 A bizarre declaration of war-and-withdrawal In sending an invading force of 30,000 and admitting the war is unwinnable, Obama’s Afghan policy is as dangerously unhinged as Bush’s was. In a much-anticipated speech at the West Point Military Academy on Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced a new [...]
Arianna Huffington on Obama’s “No Exit” Strategy
Huffington Post | By Ariana Huffington | 7 December 2009 Sartre Meets Afghanistan: Obama's "No Exit" Strategy To take some of the sting out of his decision to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, President Obama laid out an exit strategy by setting a date -- July 2011 -- on which troops will begin withdrawing. The president, [...]
An “Af/Pak” View of Obama’s Afghanistan-Pakistan Speech
U.S. Military Prevails over the President Obama Misleads the American People, as America Escalates, in Preparation for Indefinite Occupation of Afghanistan, and Open War on Pakistan Jump to: Implications for American Opinion | American Politics | Atlantic Alliance | Afghanistan-Pakistan | Conclusions “Waiving all considerations of right [...]
Full Text of Obama’s Af/Pak Speech at West Point
Following is the official transcript of President Obama's speech; it replaces the preliminary version, provided by NPR, posted earlier in this post. The graphic has been added by afpakwar.com. Listen to the Speech: White House | Office of the Press Secretary | 1 December 2009 Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way [...]
Democracy in India (and the War in Kashmir)
Outlook India and Tomgram | Essay by Arundhati Roy What Have We Done to Democracy? Of Nearsighted Progress, Feral Howls, Consensus, Chaos, and a New Cold War in Kashmir The war in the Kashmir valley is almost 20 years old now, and has claimed about 70,000 lives. Tens of thousands have been tortured, several thousand have "disappeared," women [...]
A Short Recent History of Somalia
Antiwar | By Jeremy Sapienza | 24 November 2009 Somali-American ‘Terrorists’ Victims of Unfortunate Labeling I wish it weren’t always necessary to lay out the recent history of Somalia every time it comes up. But it seems with every current event — like US bombings and piracy — Americans are starting with a fresh mental slate. [...]
“We will be defeated in Afghanistan”
TruthDig | By Chris Hedges | 20 July 2009 War Without Purpose Al-Qaida could not care less what we do in Afghanistan. We can bomb Afghan villages, hunt the Taliban in Helmand province, build a 100,000-strong client Afghan army, stand by passively as Afghan warlords execute hundreds, maybe thousands, of Taliban prisoners, build huge, [...]
By Undermining Moderate Muslims, America is Fanning Islamic Extremism in Somalia
The Africa Obama Didn’t Visit by Kelley B. Vlahos, July 14, 2009 President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa did not include Somalia, but the president needn’t go there to see that U.S. policy in Somalia has been an utter disaster. In fact, it would have been impossible for him to get anywhere near Mogadishu, because there is no [...]
US Admits Funding Somali ‘Govt’
From Anti-War.com | Marina Litvinsky and Jim Lobe, June 26, 2009 The U.S. State Department Thursday confirmed that Washington is providing arms and ammunition to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia in a bid to thwart its defeat by a loose coalition of radical Islamist militias which, according to some analysts, are linked to [...]
