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.
Posts Tagged ‘Afghanistan’
UN: 1,500 Afghan civilians dead in 8 months
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
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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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It is the War in Afghanistan Obama Declared a “Necessity,” Not Health Care
Posted by smeddum on September 17, 2009
It is the War in Afghanistan Obama Declared a “Necessity,” Not Health Care
The Health Care Deceit
September 14, 2009
Counterpunch
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
The current health care “debate” shows how far gone representative government is in the United States. Members of Congress represent the powerful interest groups that fill their campaign coffers, not the people who vote for them.
The health care bill is not about health care. It is about protecting and increasing the profits of the insurance companies. The main feature of the health care bill is the “individual mandate,” which requires everyone in America to buy health insurance. Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont), a recipient of millions in contributions over his career from the insurance industry, proposes to impose up to a $3,800 fine on Americans who fail to purchase health insurance. Read the rest of this entry »
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Why the US is afraid of ‘Afghanization’
Posted by seumasach on September 12, 2009
If Rasmussen is to be believed – and he spoke while actually on a visit to Washington on Wednesday – the NATO’s continuance in Afghanistan is an objective in itself.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
12th September, 2009
The war in Afghanistan has not been lost yet, although a great deal has gone wrong. Fortunately, a turning point has come, as a new political dispensation is struggling to be born in Kabul.
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‘Germany Has Become a Warring Party under US Command’
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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NATO deadly blitz in Afghanistan ‘may affect German election’
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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US Hypocrisy Astonishes the World
Posted by seumasach on September 7, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
7th September, 2009
Americans have lost their ability for introspection,thereby revealing their astounding hypocrisy to the world.
US War Secretary Robert Gates has condemned the Associated Press and a reporter, Julie Jacobson, embedded with US troops in Afghanistan, for taking and releasing a photo of a US Marine who was wounded in action and died from his injury.
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‘Afghanisation’ of Afghanistan is the key to beating Taliban and bringing troops home, says Brown
Posted by seumasach on September 5, 2009
5th September, 2009
Gordon Brown yesterday issued his strongest hint that British troops will start to quit Afghanistan by the end of next year.
In a major shift of strategy, the Prime Minister said a target to train up 134,000 Afghan soldiers will be brought forward by a year to December 2010.
He announced that cutting troop numbers was now ‘the basis of our strategy’.
Mr Brown spoke as two more soldiers’ bodies were flown home for burial. So far 212 soldiers have died in the conflict.
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Wizards and wives drive Afghan election
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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Powers line up to stir Afghanistan’s pot
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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A fog swirls in the Hindu Kush
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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