Posts Tagged ‘president hamid karzai’
Afghan Says Army Will Need Help Until 2024 »
President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that Afghanistan would not be able to pay for its own security until at least 2024, underscoring his government’s long-term financial dependence on the United States and NATO even as President Obama has pledged to begin withdrawing American troops in 2011.'Read more...
Afghanistan: shred and be shredded »
1. the day the general made a misstep by Mark Perryexcerpt:James Clad, a former Pentagon deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, is one of the prominent doubters. "It's not clear to me that what we're facing in Afghanistan is a counter-insurgency," he says. "In fact, I'm quite [...]
The Afghan-Pakistan Solution »
PERVEZ MUSHARRAFMy recent trip to the United States has been an enriching experience, during which I had a very healthy discourse with the American public and an opportunity to understand their concerns about the war in Afghanistan. One question I was asked almost everywhere I went was, "How can we stop losing?"The answer is a political surge, in [...]
Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic »
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,664753,00.htmlSPIEGEL ONLINEBy Gabor SteingartNever before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America's new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric -- and left both dreamers and realists feeling [...]
The AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD BE DISGUSTED WITH THIS »
Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic By Gabor Steingart AFP President Barack Obama's Tuesday speech left a bad taste in many mouths. Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America's new [...]
corruption is global »
1. afghanistan runs on well-oiled wheelsKABUL - Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. Among the dozens of businesses dispatching [...]
MORE OF THE USURPER’S GREATEST HITS 4/28/09 to »
By Peter Andrew - ConservativeAmerican.org Obama’s Broken Promise to Wipe out Income Tax for Seniors Making less than $50,000 4/28/9 The Humble Libertarian: “Obama promised to eliminate income taxation for seniors making less than $50,000 a year. He has broken this promise despite numerous opportunities to keep it, including the economic [...]
afghanistan a disastrous mess »
1. US air supply drop turns deadly, commandos go on killing spree after US military drops supplies in wrong spotHERAT - Contradictory accounts of dead and injured from Afghan and Western forces and eyewitnesses have left a confused picture of an American military supply drop that appears to have gone [...]
It hasn’t been 8 years of drift in Afghanistan »
By John HannahIn today's Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens rises to the defense of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Toward the article's close, Stephens writes that: It would be ... useful if some of Mr. Karzai's more acerbic Western critics could ask themselves why matters went abruptly south in Afghanistan after several years in which they had [...]
British Plan to Build Training Camp For Taliban »
Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized by Afghan secret police in December.The Afghan government claims they prove British agents were talking to [...]
