Posts Tagged ‘John Kerry’

Obama Speech on Afghanistan to Include Explicit Goals

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 29 November 2009 tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Asif Ali Zardari, Hamid Karzai, india, Iraq, John Kerry, New York Times, pakistan, taliban, Troop Increase, West Point with Comments

The Times has received some information on United States President Barack Hussein Obama’s speech on Tuesday. The speech will call for an immediate increase of 30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan and will also stress the pressure Obama hopes to put on the Karzai Administration to take over much of the efforts in Afghanistan.
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Slate : U.S. to Settle for ‘Good Enough’ in Afghanistan, Making it ‘Look Like Bangladesh’

In Afghanistan, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 29 October 2009 tagged Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Barack Hussein Obama, John Kerry, Norse mythology, Robert Gates, Rory Stewart, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Slate, Valhalla, Washington Post with Comments

Senator John Kerry echoed these sentiments at the National Cathedral earlier this month, a statement echoed by his fellow panelist Rory Stewart.
The idea of creating a ‘good enough’ Afghanistan has been picking up quite a bit of traction among many influential people for a while now, but one has to wonder if a nation that [...]

Senator Kerry Calls Karzai ‘A Patriot’

In Afghanistan, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 26 October 2009 tagged Afghanistan, Ahmad Wali Karzai, Council on Foreign Relations, Democrat, Hamid Karzai, John Kerry, Massachusetts, nation seller, run-off, runoff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Washington D.C., watan forosh with Comments

In a very interesting twist, it seems that Senator Kerry has changed his tune in a very short span of time. I’m not entirely sure of the Senator’s intentions in trying to claim legitimacy and dedication in Hamid Karzai’s time as President, but he should know Afghans are more inclined to call him a [...]

Video : Hamid Karzai on Farid Zakaria GPS, ‘I’m Known for Consensus’

In Afghanistan, Crime, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, War, citizenship, pakistan on 26 October 2009 tagged Admiral Mullen, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CNN, Department of State, Development, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, ECC, Election, Election Fraud, Electoral Complaints Commission, Fareed Zakaria, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Gordon Brown, GPS, Hamid Karzai, IEC, Independent Election Commission, Insurgency, insurgent, John Kerry, Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry, Maulavi Mustafa Barakzai, Minister of Foreign Affairs, NATO, New York Times, pakistan, Pashtun, Presidential Election, rahm emanuel, Reconstruction, Richard Holbrooke, run-off, runoff, runoff election, September 11, Shakespeare, Special Envoy, suicide bomb, taliban, Thomas Friedman, Turkey, UN, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, UNSC, Video, Vote Fraud, Voter Fraud, war on terror, Washington, Waziristan, World Bank, Zakaria GPS with Comments

Hamid Karzai says that all parties involved have had made mistakes over the past 8 years and speaks well about wanting to make the best decisions for a nation in the situation that Afghanistan is in, which are all fairly by the book positions for an unpopular President facing charges of illegitimacy at home [...]

Transcript of Christiane Amanpour’s Interview With Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Runoff

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, Twitter, War, citizenship, fame on 20 October 2009 tagged #Afghanelection, Afghan election, Afghanistan, change, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Democracy Now, Department of Defense, Department of State, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, ECC, Election, Election Fraud, Electoral Complaints Commission, General Scott Gration, Golden Age, Hague, Hamid Karzai, IEC, Independent Election Commission, Insurgency, insurgent, John Kerry, Kabul, Kai Eide, Mohammed Zahir Shah, NATO, Pashtun, Peter Galbraith, Presidential Election, Richard Holbrooke, runoff, runoff election, Special Envoy, Sudan, taliban, Twitter, U.S. Institute of Peace, UN, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, UNSC, Video, Vote Fraud, Voter Fraud, Washington, Zahir Shah with Comments

In absence of the video of this interview, I located the transcript from last night’s interview between CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah.
Perhaps I am looking too much into it, but notice how much Dr. Abdullah referred to ‘change’ in his statements about his vision for Afghanistan. I don’t think it is necessarily plotted [...]