The controversial brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai has been murdered by his bodyguard in Kandahar. Ahmed Karzai was gunned down in his home by one of his bodyguards who was then cut down by other guards.The younger Karzai was head of the …
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Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Afghanistan "Mafia" Boss Killed by Bodyguard
Ahmad Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been assassinated.A known drug trafficker and underworld boss, he was also the man given a $50 million contract to provide “protection” for SNC Lavalin as they fulfill another military…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": This Is Not The Country You Have Been Looking For
You have to hand it to the propagandists in the PMO, with all their happy talk about our brilliant success in Afghanistan. They know how to spin bullshit. Just because “our success” is neither true, nor sustainable doesn’t mean people won’t buy the lin…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: On Wars Never Lost Nor Won
Did Canadian soldiers win in Afghanistan? No. Did Canadian soldiers lose in Afghanistan? No. How can you lose something you were never sent to win? Our military mission to Kandahar was never about winning so it…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: You’re not defending our freedoms
An Open Letter to the Troops: You’re Not Defending Our Freedoms: Information Clearing House: ICHStephen Harper, Conservatives and Liberals : you should take heed of this letter too. The situation in Afghanistan with Canadian troops is also poi…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Sobering View on Afghanistan
This past week we were treated to punchdrunk praises of our success in Afghanistan by NewsyDupe scribes from NatPo and TorStar’s own Rosie DiManno. According to them we had the Talibs all but whipped and were standing by to hand over our vi…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Who Knew? Apparently We Won in Afghanistan.
It was just weeks ago that Steve Harper declared Canada’s mission to Afghanistan a “great success.” Actually he couched it by saying we had to “consider” our military excursion a great success. But any doubt was dispelled today by PostMedia…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Plenty of observers have noted the Cons’ complete lack of a reasonable explanation for standing in the way of a global consensus to at least ensure that asbestos is accurately labeled as a hazardous substance. But yo…
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To the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: I am writing to you as a last resort. I realize this is a very long shot, but I have no other recourse. The Canadian government has been hiding…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: If Only They Had Told Us the Truth
Hmm. What if they had said this to us back in 2001, after 9/11?Okay folks, here’s the deal. Al Qaeda just crashed jetliners into two office towers and the Pentagon. They killed about three thousand people.  …
Continue readingLeDaro: Keith Olbermann: Special comment on Afghanistan
Why US must leave Afghanistan now. It is a very good commentary. Click here to watch the video.
Continue readingImpolitical: Afghan detainee docs released
4000 of 40,000 documents have been released this afternoon. There may be much discussion to come on what is being released, how much has been redacted, etc. This report from the reviewers who worked in conjunction with the committee is important background information to be read in connection with it all. If you are so inclined. Various media organizations will be uploading the documents for all to peruse. Have at it.
Afghan Detainee Document Review – Canada
Accidental Deliberations: Stonewalled
Not that it should come as much surprise that the release of the first report (PDF) from the Afghan detainee document panel fits the pattern of delay and distraction from the Cons. But this declaration (italics added) looks to take the stonewalling to …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Is It The End Of NATO?
I suggested the other day that NATO was basically a zombie and that they had already lost – at least in terms of intended political consequences – the war in Libya. It hadn’t occurred to me that within a few days there would be infighting, including be…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Afghanistan: USA Runs For The Door
Of course the military would stay forever, or until victory with honour as they used to say, whichever comes first. But with a presidential election next year and Afghanistan no more under control than ten years ago when the USA & friends invaded, …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Causing Harm in the Name of Doing Good
Is the West taking away the best thing Afghans had going for them?Retired US foreign service officer Patricial McArdle contends that well-intentioned Western aid programmes are undermining Afghanistan’s locavore tradition….few realize that one of the…
Continue readingRedBedHead: NATO Has Already Lost In Libya
I’m certainly not one to believe that imperialist agendas, hideous in life, won’t rise zombie-like from the grave. The present air war by NATO to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is proof enough of that. The failure of NATO in Afghanistan, after ten …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Simple Minds In a Complex World
We in the West like to keep things simple, especially when those things relate to countries on the other side of the world. We like to reduce everything to basic math – i.e., Afghanistan + Insurgency = Taliban. We’ve even based a decade of warfig…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: America Shows Its Hand on Afghanistan
American negotiators are working out a deal that could allow US forces to remain in Afghanistan for decades. All this nonsense about an American withdrawal by 2014 was always just that – nonsense.
The Pentagon wants a geopolitical military presenc…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Afghan public opinion and it’s consequences
If we care about the Afghan people, and if we believe in democracy as a normative system for determining what is best for a people, it becomes imperative when conducting a unilateral action such as war that we learn what the Afghan people actually thin…
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