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.…
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Keith Olbermann: Special comment on Afghanistan
Why US must leave Afghanistan now. It is a very good commentary. Click here to watch the video.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
U.S. follows lead of Taliban Jack
Googling the history of our Afghanistan adventure the other day, I encountered a snide Vancouver Sun article written in 2008 mocking "Taliban Jack" for his position on the war, sarcastically…
The Social Determinants of Health
(Note: This post contains a portion of the talk that I gave last month at the 16th International Conference of the Association of Psychology and Psychiatry for Adults and Children…
Afghantistan is no longer a risk: PM
Inspired by this story:http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/05/30/pol-harper-afghanistan.html
Afghanistan is no longer a threat to the world. As if it ever was
“Afghanistan is no longer a threat to the world.” These are Stephen Harper's words to our troops in Afghanistan as he tries to explain why 156 of their comrades (and…
Think of Them As "Terrorists In Training"
Another screwed up NATO airstrike in Afghanistan. 14-dead, reportedly all women and children. Six others wounded. The Talibs are busy signing up new recruits.Karzai's beating his chest. Says this is…
Tory Impressed U.S. DiplomAnts: WikiLeaks
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/05/18/baird-wikileaks-minister-environment.html
Molly’sBlog 2011-05-10 00:37:00
AMERICAN POLITICS:ANOTHER SORT OF FIRST OF JULY:Well now that the great raison d'être for America's far flung wars is safely swimming with the fishies it might just be time for…
Osama may be dead, but we still have to stay in Afghanistan
I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. -Mark Twain Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed, it appears, by the CIA. The question…
thwap makes a good point
Again. But he tends to doing it.There have been serious war crimes allegations made during the Afghanistan war, which demand investigation, and if necessary, prosecution.Appointing an investigator with subpoena power…