Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’

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 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 opens [...]

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 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 Post [...]

Matt Damon on Obama ‘I’m Disappointed,’ André Leon Talley and Grace Coddington on Twitter ‘Outdated in 10 Minutes’ ‘

In Afghanistan, Art, Film, History, Internet, Iraq, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter, War, fame, fashion on 2 March 2010 tagged @OfficialALT, Barack Hussein Obama, Barnes & Noble, Facebook, Grace Coddington, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Iraq, Iraq War, Matt Damon, New York Daily News, R.j. Cutler, Saddam Hussein, The Cut, The Green Zone, The September Issue, Twitter, Vogue, Vogue Magazine, Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD with Comments

Speaking to the New York Daily News, Matt Damon comments on President Barack Hussein Obama’s ability to deliver on his rhetoric of ‘hope’ and ‘change,’ and meet the public’s inflated expectations of his Administration.
Damon, like many others realizes that the American public put far too much trust and hope in Barack Hussein Obama, but in [...]

Khalilzad : Reconciliation With Taliban Requires Security and Capable Government

In Afghanistan, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 20 February 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Editorial, Iraq, Negotiations, New York Times, Opinion, pakistan, Reconciliation, Reintegration, taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad with Comments

Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad wrote an Op/Ed for Thursday’s New York Times about the possibility of reconciliation and reintegration of the Taliban within Afghan society.
To Khalilzad, like many others, for Karzai’s push towards reconciliation and reintegration to prove successful, the Taliban must realize that they are on the decline as [...]

McChrystal on Operation Moshtarak : ‘We Don’t Want Falluja’

In Afghanistan, History, Iraq, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 13 February 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Dexter Filkins, Falluja, Fallujah, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Hamid Karzai, Helmand, Iraq, Iraq War, Lt. Gen. Mohammad Karimi, Lt. Gen. Mohammed Karimi, Marja, Marjah, NATO, New York Times, Operation Moshtarak, taliban with Comments

Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, Dexter Filkins, describes the major difference between Operation Moshtarak in Marjah and the United States’ other offensives in Afghanistan as such:
For much of the past eight years, American and NATO forces have mounted other large military operations to clear towns and cities of Taliban insurgents. And then, almost [...]