A War That Can't Be Won
Afghans Will Pay The Price
By Peter Galbraith
The declaration of victory caps weeks of farce and failure, especially for the UN.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23886.htm
A War That Can't Be Won
Starts with candy, ends in napalm
By Serge Halimi
The French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner still hopes to "win hearts and minds with a bullet-proof vest" (2) and McChrystal assures the world that "the American goal in Afghanistan must not be primarily to hunt down and kill Taliban insurgents but to protect the population".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23888.htm
When Is It Legitimate For The Oppressed To Take Up Arms?
By Arundhati Roy
Roy is against the development of nuclear weapons without regard to the lives of the poor, and the refusal to grant Kashmir independence. She has called the US-led war in Afghanistan "another act of terror against the people of the world" and considers US-style capitalism to be the cause of much of the world's instability.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23887.htm
"Blood price" paid to prop up Afghan government: Former UN Aide
"Among the greatest mistakes of the international community has been its laissez-faire approach to the corruption, cronyism and venality of the Afghan government," he added.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5A11RF20091102
From Information Clearing House
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A long-term disaster for Obama and the US
CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn
11/03/09
The election in Afghanistan has turned into a disaster for all who promoted it. Hamid Karzai has been declared re-elected as president of the country for the next five years though his allies inside and outside Afghanistan know that he owes his success to open fraud. Instead of increasing his government’s legitimacy, the poll has further de-legitimized it. From Mr Karzai’s point of view he won through at the end and showed that nobody is strong enough to get rid of him. For President Obama the election has no silver lining. It has left him poised to send tens of thousands US troops to fight a war in defense of one of world’s most crooked and discredited governments...
http://counterpunch.org/patrick11032009.html
The American way of abandonment
The American Conservative
by Patrick J. Buchanan
11/03/09
That there are warlords who are war criminals, allied with the Afghan regime and us, that drug-traffickers are abetted by high officials, that Karzai stole the election, no one denies. That the Pakistani intelligence services are shot through with elements loyal to a Taliban they helped bring to power in Kabul, that there are Pakistani army officers who believe they should be defending their country against India, not fighting America’s war in Waziristan, is also undeniable. But what does it avail us to insult these people who have cast their lot with us, many of whom will, with famines and friends, pay a far more terrible price than we if we lose these wars. And if we are going to abandon these people, as we have so many others in the past, let us at least tell them, and ourselves, the truth...
http://tinyurl.com/y9m36sv
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waziristan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karzai
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernard+Kouchner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McChrystal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warlord
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=napalm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Galbraith
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Serge+Halimi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arundhati+Roy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan
By Peter Galbraith
The declaration of victory caps weeks of farce and failure, especially for the UN.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23886.htm
A War That Can't Be Won
Starts with candy, ends in napalm
By Serge Halimi
The French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner still hopes to "win hearts and minds with a bullet-proof vest" (2) and McChrystal assures the world that "the American goal in Afghanistan must not be primarily to hunt down and kill Taliban insurgents but to protect the population".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23888.htm
When Is It Legitimate For The Oppressed To Take Up Arms?
By Arundhati Roy
Roy is against the development of nuclear weapons without regard to the lives of the poor, and the refusal to grant Kashmir independence. She has called the US-led war in Afghanistan "another act of terror against the people of the world" and considers US-style capitalism to be the cause of much of the world's instability.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23887.htm
"Blood price" paid to prop up Afghan government: Former UN Aide
"Among the greatest mistakes of the international community has been its laissez-faire approach to the corruption, cronyism and venality of the Afghan government," he added.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5A11RF20091102
From Information Clearing House
--------
A long-term disaster for Obama and the US
CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn
11/03/09
The election in Afghanistan has turned into a disaster for all who promoted it. Hamid Karzai has been declared re-elected as president of the country for the next five years though his allies inside and outside Afghanistan know that he owes his success to open fraud. Instead of increasing his government’s legitimacy, the poll has further de-legitimized it. From Mr Karzai’s point of view he won through at the end and showed that nobody is strong enough to get rid of him. For President Obama the election has no silver lining. It has left him poised to send tens of thousands US troops to fight a war in defense of one of world’s most crooked and discredited governments...
http://counterpunch.org/patrick11032009.html
The American way of abandonment
The American Conservative
by Patrick J. Buchanan
11/03/09
That there are warlords who are war criminals, allied with the Afghan regime and us, that drug-traffickers are abetted by high officials, that Karzai stole the election, no one denies. That the Pakistani intelligence services are shot through with elements loyal to a Taliban they helped bring to power in Kabul, that there are Pakistani army officers who believe they should be defending their country against India, not fighting America’s war in Waziristan, is also undeniable. But what does it avail us to insult these people who have cast their lot with us, many of whom will, with famines and friends, pay a far more terrible price than we if we lose these wars. And if we are going to abandon these people, as we have so many others in the past, let us at least tell them, and ourselves, the truth...
http://tinyurl.com/y9m36sv
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waziristan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karzai
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernard+Kouchner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McChrystal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warlord
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=napalm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Galbraith
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Serge+Halimi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arundhati+Roy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan
rudkla - 4. Nov, 09:18
