Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’

Manifest امید : What Washingtonians Know About Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 26 July 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Baghdad, Barack Hussein Obama, George W. Bush, Green Zone, Iraq, Osama Bin Laden, poppy, poppy fields, Rome, Saddam Hussein, The Fridge, امید with View Comments

At a screening of the documentary Manifest Hope in Capitol Hill I decided to take the opportunity to ask attendees of a film about political art what they knew about Afghanistan. The questions raised to each of the 30-somethings in attendance were simple, and though their answers do not provide any clear solutions to the [...]

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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 [...]

Foreign Policy Afghanistan #6 Failed State of 2010, Africa Dominates Top 5

In Afghanistan, History, Iran, Iraq, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 20 June 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Africa, China, egypt, failed states, Foreign Policy, india, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, pakistan, quasi-states, Robert H. Jackson, The Fund For Peace, Third World with View Comments

In collaboration with the Fund for Peace Foreign Policy Magazine has published their rankings of Failed States in 2010. Foreign Policy uses 12 indicators to define a Failed State, but the recurring factors in many nations in the Top 10 of the rankings are: One of the most common is the loss of physical control [...]

Democracy Is Messy : The Green Zone

In Art, Film, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 19 March 2010 tagged Ba'ath, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Green Zone, Iraq, Iraq War, Jason Bourne, Khalid Abdalla, Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass, The Cradle of Civilization, Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD with View Comments

In an odd foreshadowing, the same day that former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stated that she would “many times over liberate Iraq again from Saddam Hussein,” I saw Paul Greengrass‘ new Iraq War film Green Zone starring frequent Greengrass collaborator and star of the highly successful Jason Bourne franchise, Matt Damon. The film [...]

Don’t Call It an Invasion! Afghans Don’t Hate Foreigners

In Afghanistan, History, Iraq, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 13 March 2010 tagged ABC, Approval Rating, BBC, International Republican Institute, invasion, Iraq, mujahideen, Mujhaideen, taliban, Washington Post with View Comments

The Washington Post published an article for their weekend edition entitled ‘Five myths about the war in Afghanistan,’ though most of the truth behind most of these myths may be pretty obvious, there is still a large contingent of Americans (including Liberals) who subscribe to these notions. I was extremely glad to see the Washington [...]