Posts Tagged ‘Civilian Surge’

Saad Mohseni Tweets on Obama Afghanistan Address

In Afghanistan, History, Internet, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter, War, pakistan on 2 December 2009 tagged @saadmohseni, Afghan Star, Afghanistan, air strike, Al Qaeda, Amman, Article 5, Asif Ali Zardari, Bali, Barack Hussein Obama, Civilian Surge, CNN, Commander-in-chief, December 1, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Guantanamo Bay, Hamid Karzai, International Security Assistance Force, Islam, Islamabad, Karachi, NATO, Osama Bin Laden, pakistan, Saad Mohseni, Saddam Hussein, Somalia, SWAT, Swat Valley, taliban, Tolo TV, Troop Increase, Twitter, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, UNSC, Vietnam, Waziristan, West Point, World Bank, Yemen with View Comments

Founder of the Moby Media Group, the media company behind Afghan Star and Tolo TV (without a doubt the best of the Afghan Satellite Television stations), Saad Mohseni, took to his Twitter profile tonight to respond to Barack Obama’s Afghanistan address. Below is Mohseni’s Twitter feed from tonight. Like us, Mohseni is fearful of the [...]

Beautiful Disaster : 8 Years After the Great Afghan Hope [and Hype]

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, ali on 1 December 2009 tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Barack Hussein Obama, Beautiful Disaster, Christiane Amanpour, Civilian Surge, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, Golden Age, Mohammed Zahir Shah, taliban, Troop Surge, West Point with View Comments

In an interview with Christiane Amanpour, former Afghan Presidential candidate, Dr. Ashraf Ghani recalled images of the Afghan people welcoming the U.S. and NATO soldiers with flowers, hopeful of a change that they were sure would finally come to their nation. Now just over 8 years later, a new American President has to publicly assure [...]

The Greatest Hits and Misses of Obama’s Afghanistan Address

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, Iran, Iraq, Islam, News, Opinion, Politics, War, citizenship, pakistan on 1 December 2009 tagged Afghanistan, air strike, Al Qaeda, Amman, Article 5, Asif Ali Zardari, Bali, Barack Hussein Obama, Civilian Surge, CNN, Commander-in-chief, December 1, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Guantanamo Bay, Hamid Karzai, International Security Assistance Force, Islam, Islamabad, Karachi, NATO, Osama Bin Laden, pakistan, Saddam Hussein, Somalia, SWAT, Swat Valley, taliban, Troop Increase, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, UNSC, Vietnam, Waziristan, West Point, World Bank, Yemen with View Comments

Speaking at The United States Military Academy at West Point, U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama finally addressed the American people to provide a clear explanation for the United States’ efforts in Afghanistan. Obama also made it a point to remind the American people exactly why the United States is still in Afghanistan 8 years after [...]