Posts Tagged ‘Al Qaeda’

Could Sudan Be Afghanistan Part III and Iraq Part II?

In Crime, History, Iran, Iraq, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, War, pakistan on 13 July 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Cold War, Darfur, Dave Eggers, Dictator, failed states, General Augusto Pinochet, genocide, Iraq, John Prendergast, Khartoum, Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, New York Times, Omar al-Bashir, OMAR HASSAN AL-BASHIR, Op-ed, Robert Mugabe, Rwanda, Saddam Hussein, South Sudan, Sudan, taliban with View Comments

In an Op-Ed for the New York Times, John Prendergast and author Dave Eggers explore a question they see as gaining increasing prominence within the United States – if the United States has the “ability as a nation to positively influence events abroad?” According to Eggers and Prendergast not only does the United States still [...]

Rachel Maddow : McChrystal Doesn’t Believe in Counter-insurgency

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, War on 23 June 2010 tagged 10 U.S.C. § 888, Al Qaeda, Counter-Insurgency, counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, General Stanley McChrystal, Helmand, IAVA, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Kandahar, Marja, Marjah, Michael Hastings, MSNBC, NATO, pakistan, Paul Rieckhoff, Rachel Maddow, Rachel Maddow Show, Rolling Stone, Stanley McChrystal, Stars and Stripes, taliban, The Rachel Maddow Show, US Code - Section 888: Art. 88, Video with View Comments

Discussing General Stanley McChrystal’s dismissal, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow began to question General McChrystal’s focus on counter-insurgency in Afghanistan. Unfortunately for Maddow’s partisan audience, the tone displayed in her questioning suggested a lack of understanding of the situation on the ground for the Afghans and a dismissive attitude towards a legitimate policy created to ensure that [...]

Karzai Says “Welcome” to “Dear Taliban Brothers” at Peace Jirga

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 2 June 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Hamid Karzai, Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI, pakistan, Reuters, Saudi Arabia, taliban with View Comments

Speaking at the first day of the Peace Jirga at Kabul Polytechnic University, Afghan President Hamid Karzai addressed the Taliban directly, going so far as to refer to them as brothers from the same soil. Karzai’s rhetoric of fraternity proves all the more precarious as the Taliban launched an attack in Kabul as the first [...]

British Defense Secretary Called ‘Orientalist and Racist’ by Afghan Officials

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, War on 24 May 2010 tagged Al Qaeda, Anglo-Afghan War, Liam Fox, orientalist, taliban, Times of London, Times Online with View Comments

In a statement to the Times of London, Conservative British Defense Secretary, Liam Fox called Afghanistan “a 13th-century country,” and went on to state that: “We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are [...]

Sarah Palin Equates God and Guns in Boston

In History, News, Opinion, Politics, fame, pakistan on 15 April 2010 tagged Al Qaeda, Arar, Boston, Constitution, Drill Baby Drill, God, guns, Karachi, religion, Sarah Palin, Second Amendment, Separation of Church and State, tea party with View Comments

Speaking to a 5,000 strong crowd of Tea Partiers in Boston on Wednesday, former Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin made a speech in which she equated her freedom, her God, and her gun to one another. You know who else make public addresses to crowds of people spewing hate and anti-state rhetoric that equates [...]