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President Obama, is Afghanistan more like Vietnam or Germany?
48 minutes ago ago from Marc Seltzer's Perspective: Strategic Insights, not Simplistic Attacks
By Marc Seltzer; originally published on November 30, 2009, at care2.com . . . When President Barack Obama addresses the nation on Tuesday evening, December 1, from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, I will be looking for the President to answer specific questions I have about the United States' conduct of the war in Afghanistan. I would like to hear Mr. Obama state clearly the current objective. Is it to build a modern ...
Related contentKabul allowed to export goods through Wagha
12 hours ago ago from ISMICA
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan on Monday agreed to allow Afghan products export to India through land route, but stopped short of taking up the issue of reciprocal trade by New Delhi to Afghanistan. Although a formal agreement would be signed later, understanding on the issue was reached as result of three days of negotiations between technical experts of the two sides from Commerce and Immigrations departments in Islamabad. As a ...
Related contentOMG!Sandeep: Obama is Risking His Presidency in Afghanistan. And He Should
18 hours ago ago from Publicola
[Editor's Note: We're not sure where our OMG!Obama column has run off too. Perhaps ObamaNerd is embarrassed about his hero's health care bill—which appears to have abandoned the public option and half the public, namely, women . Luckily, we're debuting a new Obama-centric opinion column today (it'll have it's own logo and all that soon enough): OMG!Sandeep by PubliCola co-founder Sandeep Kaushik. Kaushik is the whiskey-loving ...
Related contentThe Cost of Escalation
19 hours ago ago from Left of College Station
The Obama Administration has continued the Bush Administration’s foreign policy, and we are paying for it. President Obama announced that he was escalating the war in Afghanistan, and that along with the new strategy there are going to be 30,000 new troops at a cost of $30 billion for the military this year. Remember when former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that the entire cost of the war in Iraq was going to be $50 billion? ...
Related contentGoogle presents to you the discourse about Afghanistan
3 hours ago ago from MoStFab
Chapati Mystery's year-ending post is unbeatable . It includes a screenshot of Google's search suggestions related to the keywords "Pakistan + is," captured recently. It shows how popular it is to discuss within the discourse about failed states whether Pakistan is or "still isn't" a failed state (whatever a failed state is). It also shows how India-bashing (and a parallel tendency to measure oneself according what India is capable of) ...
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Renewed Lebanese drug trade hikes Mideast tensions
7 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Renewed Lebanese drug trade hikes Mideast tensions BAALBEK, Lebanon (AP) -- Lebanon's drug-producing heartland is back in business with a resurgence of marijuana and poppy fields, challenging the country's underpowered security forces and adding another dimension to Israel's war with Hezbollah militants. Associated Press interviews with farmers and Lebanese officials, and documents from international organizations that monitor drugs, show ...
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