Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2009
David Crossland
9th September
It’s high time the German government mapped out a clear plan for withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, write German media commentators. Shocked by last Friday’s deadly air strike, voters in Germany want a new strategy that will lead to a pullout.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2009
Jonathan S. Landay
8th September, 2009
GANJGAL, Afghanistan — We walked into a trap, a killing zone of relentless gunfire and rocket barrages from Afghan insurgents hidden in the mountainsides and in a fortress-like village where women and children were replenishing their ammunition.
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Posted by seumasach on September 7, 2009
7th September, 2009
The recent deadly air raids in Afghanistan by NATO forces might influence German electorates’ opinion in the upcoming national election, European media outlets suggest.
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Posted by smeddum on September 1, 2009
August 31, 2009
An Unpopular War
What Obama Isn’t Telling You About Afghanistan
By ANTONY DiMAGGIO
Counterpunch
President Obama finds himself in a precarious position when calling for escalation of the war in Afghanistan. While this conflict is traditionally seen as the “good war,” American and Afghan public support appears mixed at best. There is good reason to suspect that the limited support for war that exists will evaporate after casualties on both sides increase and Afghanistan’s security further deteriorates. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 31, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
1st September, 2009
Dr Abdullah Abdullah, the “modern face” of Afghanistan, is a rare finished product to emerge out of the jihad of the 1980s – a handsome, nattily attired, English-speaking mujahideen spokesman who could evocatively bring to the Western drawing rooms the danger and the thrill of the Hindu Kush.
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Posted by smeddum on August 29, 2009
US has put Afghan civilians ‘in greater danger’
Friday 28 August 2009
Afghan civilians are less secure now than at any time since the Taliban regime was toppled by a US-led invasion and Western-backed warlords in 2001, Amnesty has warned. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 27, 2009
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Posted by smeddum on August 26, 2009
Afghanistan, a 21st-Century Cuba
25.08.2009
By Hans Vogel
Last week’s elections in Afghanistan were, of course, a travesty of democracy. A farce, a joke, a charade. Still, we haven’t been hearing lots of laughter, though loud laughter, no matter whether cynical or not, would have been the only proper reaction to what was ubiquitously presented as a serious event in a democratic country. Anyone observing the “elections” should have been roaring with laughter, with tears in his eyes and cramps in the stomach, that kind of laughter. Yet most “Western” media reported on them with the utmost seriousness. It is just another proof of how utterly insignificant these media have become, manned as they are by traitors, weaklings, half-wits and other losers whom no one with a modicum of self-esteem would want to associate with. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 24, 2009
by Justin Raimondo,
August 24, 2009
There was a time when Cindy Sheehan couldn’t go anywhere without having a microphone and a TV camera stuck in front of her. As she camped out in front of George W. Bush’s Crawford ranch, mourning the death of her son Casey in Iraq and calling attention to an unjust, unnecessary, and unwinnable war, the media created in her a symbolic figure whose public agony epitomized a growing backlash against the militarism and unmitigated arrogance of the Bush administration. It was a powerful image: a lone woman standing up to the most powerful man on earth in memory of her fallen son. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2009
M.K.Bhadrakumar
20th August, 2009
In his distinguished diplomatic career spanning four decades, there is not a trace of record to show that Richard Holbrooke, United States special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, dabbled in energy security issues. His current visit to Pakistan – en route to Afghanistan – has been officially projected as aimed at helping his host country find a way to overcome its electricity shortage.
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Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2009
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th August, 2009
The 19th century Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote in his famous work, On War, “The great uncertainty of all data in war is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently – like the effect of a fog or moonshine – gives to things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.” Unsurprisingly, a Clausewitzean war such as the one in the Hindu Kush is often covered in thick fog.
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