Posts Tagged ‘Secretary of State’

Karzai & Obama Are Facebook UNoffical

In Afghanistan, Internet, News, Politics, comedy, fame on 10 April 2010 tagged Annoying Jackass, Facebook, Foursquare, Gawker, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, oval office, Press Office, Ricky Martin, Robert Gibbs, Roosevelt Room, Secretary of State, She Bangs, Slate, White House with View Comments

Ricky and Bush are still BFFs, but Karzai is so over Obama: Joe Biden is ‘an annoying jackass:’ Barack Obama‘s Facebook Feed [Slate]

Can Mullah Omar Be Negotiated With?

In Afghanistan, News, Opinion, Politics, War, india, pakistan on 29 January 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Brigadier Sultan Tarar, CNN, Colonel Imam, Dawn.com, Hamid Karzai, Hillary Clinton, ISI, McClatchy, Mullah Omar, Secretary of State, taliban with View Comments

Hamid Karzai first spoke of negotiations with Mullah Omar in November 2008. Now, as the Afghan government is once again renewing its efforts to negotiate with the Taliban the question of Mullah Omar once again reared its head. As there is a large chasm between a strategy of a bottom-up abandonment of the Taliban or [...]

Video : Dr. Ashraf Ghani Corruption ‘Threatening Our Existence as a Nation’

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, War, citizenship, fame on 21 November 2009 tagged Ahmad Wali Karzai, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, corruption, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, George W. Bush, Hamid Karzai, Hillary Clinton, Ministry of the Interior, Mohammad Fahim, Mohammed Qasim Fahim, Secretary of State, Video with View Comments

Former Afghan Presidential candidate, Dr. Ashraf Ghani was on CNN with Christiane Amanpour to discuss the prospects of a corruption free Karzai regime. As Dr. Ghani states, the corruption is deeply engrained within the Karzai Administration because as Karzai himself admitted, the governors ministers are appointed by the Presient. Therefore to simply take out or [...]

Friedman on Peace Process : America Should ‘Get Out of The Picture’

In History, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Racism, War on 8 November 2009 tagged Arab, Barack Hussein Obama, Bill Clinton, Editorial, George Shultz, Goldstone Report, Hamas, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, Israel, James Baker, Jimmy Carter, New York Times, Obama Administration, Opinion, Palestine, Secretary of State, Thomas Friedman, United Nations, United States of America with View Comments

In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman, asserts that the United States should abandon the Palestinian-Israeli peace process altogether because it has become a play of the same script different cast: The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It is obvious that all the parties are just acting out [...]

Hillary Clinton : Reducing Settlement Building Not Preferable ‘We Would Like to See Everything Ended Forever’

In Crime, News, Opinion, Politics on 4 November 2009 tagged Abbas, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Andrews Air Force Base, Arabs, Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton, egypt, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hosni Mubarak, Huffington Post, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, Mahmoud Abbas, Mideast Peace, Mubarak, Palestine, Palestinians, Peace, Secretary of State, Settlements, Settlers, Two State Solution, Two State Talks, West Bank with View Comments

To counter-act statements she made earlier in the week in praise of Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed slowing, but not halting altogether of settlement growth, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the slowing of settlement growth should be seen as a first step. Clinton was careful to say that though the United States would ‘prefer’ [...]