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Delivering a Message to Obama -- from the Women of Afghanistan
Last week, a long-term CODEPINK supporter phoned to invite me to dinner with Obama. She said, "You went to a war zone to learn what the women of Afghanistan want to say to Obama -- I want to make sure he gets the message."
World Politics: Wanting to Puke
was brought up to believe in peace not war. But the world is a different place. I am not one who believes we can decide to disengage from the world at this late hour.
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Explore War and Rethink Afghanistan
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Wall Street Is More of a Threat to Obama's Domestic Agenda than Afghanistan
Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."
Vietnamistan?
Are we fighting to deny Al Qaeda a base of operations and to keep American safe? This is not a Bond movie. It's not like we can destroy their secret base of operations in time to stop them from bombing the Super Bowl.
The South African Talks: A Template for Peace
The South African peace negotiations template can serve as a model for facilitating peace efforts around the world today, from the Middle East, to Afghanistan, to Iran, to the Basque area of Spain.
Karzai Declared Winner of Next Month's Runoff
In a stunning victory, Afghan president Hamid Karzai today was declared the winner of the runoff election scheduled to take place November 7.
Arianna Discusses Afghan War And Huge Wall Street Profits On CNN
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Afghanistan: An Election Without Results
Everyone here is impatient to know the outcome of the much-discussed, controversial Afghan elections, but two months have passed and still no one has a clue about the real situation.
Afghanistan -- Winning Lessons from Vietnam
The collapse of US efforts in Vietnam was made inevitable by the pervasive corruption and incompetence of a succession of governments in South Vietnam -- and here lies the lesson for Afghanistan.
In the Name of Hope: Perpetual War and the Nobel Peace Prize
If the Nobel Peace Prize Committee tells us that war is compatible with peace, who are we to say otherwise?
New iPhone App Detects Balloon Hoaxes
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Who's Next? Lessons from the Long War and a Blowback World
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The War at Home
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Lies Drive the Afghan War
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Here's one for you die-hard Obama fans. I've already addressed how Obama is throwing his decision on increasing troops numbers to whether or not he pleases his base on healthcare. I've also explained to many who think military commanders don't take into account the interagency and international strategic implications of all instruments of national power in their assessments. That is, most liberals think military generals who know little about the world and are just yes men who take orders without honest dissent. So you've learned today by what I've posted below. Don't worry, no charge. But here's one to leave you with: What are the odds of Obama announcing to the world that he will increase troop levels...ie, escalate in Aghanistan...before he accepts his peace prize in November. Hmmmm? This is why you heard it from me last week he was foolish..very foolsh, to accept the peace prize before he has peace. And it shows amazing weak leadership that 9 months into his term, he has not national defense strategy. Zero. Zilch. Talk about making us look weak in the world. So it's our job to push him to be commander-in-chief, not politician or peace prize poster child.
You can keep that sorry arsed conspiracy to yourself. The Nobel means very little to Obama
He wasn't elected to keep the Bushies happy. You lost leave it at that dusch.
In ten years, the USSR military lost 15,000 + soldiers and 35,000 + wounded and _killed 1 million Afghans. What a price to pay for leaving with their tails between their legs, and did their puppet government last?
Do we want to go the same route, to go after ONE man, who will not live forever? Is _vengeance THAT important? Will it bring the people who perished on 9/11 back?
Have you read this report? How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen.
http://www.counterpunch.org/brzezinski.html
The most interesting point is that Carter started funding what is now the Taliban, BEFORE Russia invaded and that we just wanted to give them a black eye. Russia said they invaded because we were interfearing in their backyard and we denied it for years.
If I remember right, Afghanistan collapsed the Soviet Union.
The breakdown of the Soviet Union surprised most scholars of international relations, comparative politics, and Soviet politics. Existing explanations attribute the breakdown of the Soviet Union to the reformist leadership of Gorbachev, and/or to systemic factors. These explanations do not focus on the key contribution of the war in Afghanistan. This is surprising since many scholars view wars as key causal factors in empire breakdown and regime change. We argue that the war in Afghanistan was a key factor, though not the only cause, in the breakdown of the Soviet Union. The war impacted Soviet politics in four reinforcing ways: (1) Perception effects: it changed the perceptions of leaders about the efficacy of using the military to hold the empire together and to intervene in foreign countries; (2) Military effects: it discredited the Red Army, created cleavage between the party and the military, and demonstrated that the Red Army was not invincible, which emboldened the non Russian republics to push for independence; (3) Legitimacy effects: it provided non-Russians with a common cause to demand independence since they viewed this war as a Russian war fought by non Russians against Afghans; and (4) Participation effects: it created new forms of political participation, started to transform the press/media before glasnost, initiated the first shots of glasnost, and created a significant mass of war veterans (Afghansti) who formed new civil organizations weakening the political hegemony of the communist party.
Building of Camp Leatherneck.
"The escalation of the war against the Taliban has raised concerns among some in Obama's own party that the administration could be drawn into an open-ended mission.
But US commanders and officials say their aim is to train Afghan forces to eventually take over security duties."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iQsdQAuKzZl3hMgVzG60jVJVgRiQ
This kind of makes it hard to believe we are leaving any time soon.
Fact the 400,000 man Afghan army the Pentagon has dreamed up would cost 500% more than the GDP of the country.
And heres an idea on the writer of that article...
Wiki
Syed Saleem Shahzad
Saleem is also known for his in-depth research articles which often reveal facts which have not been reported by other news agencies and are difficult to corroborate or verify.
Difficult to corroberate or verify.
Well, Devil's Advocate would ask, how WOULD you corroborate him trekking to meet with Ilyas Kashmiri?
He seems to have a HISTORY of it.....a teeny bit interesting no?
http://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/_dsp/dsp_authorBio3.cfm?authID=755
Thanks interesting little think tank.....
Dr. Hoffmann is the author of two standard books about nuclear weapons ("Atomkrieg, Atomfrieden: Technik, Strategie, Abrüstung" 1980; "Die Atompartner: Washington - Bonn und die Modernisierung der taktischen Kernwaffen", 1986).
In 2004 he published a book about his mentor of 25 years "Fritz Kraemer On Excellence. Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist " (with Contributions from Alexander M. Haig Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, Madeleine Kraemer Bryant; Sven Kraemer, Wilhelm-Karl von Preussen, Edward L. Rowny and Donald Rumsfeld).
An interesting little group...I wonder if Hume works there.
This doesn't leave much time for ACORN and SEIU to rig the election!
How many jets are being chartered with porkulus money to get their battalions of community agitators over there?
Tell us, who would they rig it for, in your opinion, numbnutz?
Whoever Barry tells them to.
Like Simon Says, Afghan style.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize, did you know that?
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