29th October, 2009
The United States has withdrawn its troops from its four key bases in Nuristan, on the border with Pakistan, leaving the northeastern province as a safe haven for the Taliban-led insurgency to orchestrate its regional battles.
Archive for the ‘Afghanistan’ Category
Taliban take over Afghan province
Posted by seumasach on October 28, 2009
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America, condoms and the Taliban
Posted by seumasach on October 26, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
23rd October, 2009
The Pakistanis use an earthy metaphor when they want to put their American interlocutors on the defensive. They complain that the United States used Pakistan like a condom, simply discarded it when it is no longer useful, as has happened time and again in the Cold War era. By saying so, they urge the Americans to be constant in friendship.
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Peace of Art: American artists fight against Afghan war
Posted by smeddum on October 23, 2009
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America’s Phoney War in Afghanistan
Posted by smeddum on October 21, 2009
America’s Phoney War in Afghanistan
by F. William Engdahl
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Global Research, October 21, 2009
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of Afghanistan. There are two basic reasons, neither one of which can be admitted openly to the public at large. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tokyo to cease support for Western occupation of Afghanistan
Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2009
Tokyo to cease support for Western occupation of Afghanistan
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Japan said on Tuesday that it will end its support for the US occupation of Afghanistan and pull its naval ships out of the Arabian Sea in the New Year. Read the rest of this entry »
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William Astore: Apocalypse Then, Afghanistan Now
Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2009
October 11, 2009
Here’s the thing: This may be our next “Vietnam moment,” but Afghanistan is no Vietnam: there are no major enemy powers like the Soviet Union and China lurking in the background; no organized enemy state with a powerful army like North Vietnam supporting the insurgents; no well organized, unified national liberation movement like the Vietcong, and that’s just a beginning. Almost everywhere, in fact, the Vietnam analogy breaks down — almost everywhere, that is, except when it comes to us. Because we never managed to leave Vietnam behind, even when we were proclaiming that we had kicked that “syndrome,” it turns out that we’re still there. Our military leaders, for instance, only recently dusted off the old Vietnam-era counterinsurgency doctrine that once ended in catastrophe, shined it up, and are now presenting it as an ingenious new solution to war-fighting. Let’s face it: everything about American thinking still stinks of the Vietnamese debacle, including the inability of our leaders to listen to a genuinely wide range of options. Read the rest of this entry »
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Students March against the War in US
Posted by smeddum on October 8, 2009
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Code Pink rethinks Afghan withdrawal
Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2009
He who pays the leftist calls the tune. Cindy Sheehan did well to dissociate herself from the leftist “antiwar movement”
Is Medea Benjamin Naive or Just Confused?
Scott Horton
8th October, 2009
When I heard that there would be antiwar protests across the country on October 7, 2009, mourning the 8th anniversary of the start of the invasion of Afghanistan, I immediately picked up the phone to get one of the great anti-warrior women of Code Pink to join me on Antiwar Radio for the occasion. Read the rest of this entry »
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Obama to discuss Afghan war with congressional leaders
Posted by smeddum on October 7, 2009
October 06, 2009
Peoplesdaily
U.S. President Barack Obama will discuss Afghan war with top congressional leaders from both major parties Tuesday, as the U.S. government is reviewing its Afghan strategy. Read the rest of this entry »
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UN: 1,500 Afghan civilians dead in 8 months
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
27th September, 2009
A United Nations report has noted that a total of 1,500 civilians have lost their lives in insurgency-hit Afghanistan from the beginning of the year to August.
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US braced for surge of protest over war in Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Paul Harris
27th September, 2009
At his home in Richmond, Virginia, Larry Syverson spends part of every day worrying there will be an unwanted knock on the door. Syverson’s son, Branden, is an American soldier serving in Afghanistan, conducting dangerous patrols in an area infested with Taliban.
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