Graveyard of Empire
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis178.html
Obama Sneaks into Kabul to Beg Karzai to Clean Up His Act
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lindorff11.1.html
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"Why We Should Get Out Of Afghanistan"
By George Galloway and Tony Benn
Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24561.htm
Casualties will rise in 2010, US and British officials warn
NATO forces have been fighting in Afghanistan for eight years, but casualties are rising and the insurgency shows no sign of buckling.
http://snipurl.com/uayej
Karzai demands end to Nato raids
Afghanistan's president has demanded that Nato forces in his country stop all military raids on local villages.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/02/20102814629840690.html
The Philippine War is Not So Different from Afghanistan
By David Silbey
The war in Afghanistan feels foreign to Americans: a far distant land, a confusing and alien culture, and combat against a shadowy enemy. That feeling is mistaken. America has spent much of its history fighting wars like the one in Afghanistan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24636.htm
From Information Clearing House
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The US can no longer afford its empire
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
02/03/10
President Obama has presented Congress with a spending request of $3.8 trillion for the next fiscal year in 2011, but with a third of it not paid for with taxes, thus resulting in a $1.3 trillion deficit (a whopping 8.3 percent of GDP). The small piece of good news is that this deficit is smaller as a portion of the nation’s economic output than this year’s gargantuan 10.6 percent for FY 2010 (that $1.6 trillion deficit is a post-World War II record). Budget deficits of this magnitude have occurred before, but only during cataclysmic wars — the Civil War and World Wars I and II. Contrary to the rhetoric of congressional Republicans, who are stridently criticizing Obama for his excessive spending, these budget deficits are largely the result of George W. Bush’s new entitlement program (Medicare prescription drug coverage), the usual Republican fake tax cuts (tax cuts without concomitant reductions in government spending), bank and insurance bailouts, and the conduct of two disastrous U.S. occupations of foreign countries. Of course, Obama is far from blameless...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2724
Washington’s greatest Afghan war danger: Self-deception
Campaign For Liberty
by Tom Engelhardt
02/09/10
Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA’s ’secret’ battlefield in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles — that is, pilot-less drones — shoot missiles (18 of them in a single attack on a tiny village last week) or drop bombs and then the news comes in: a certain number of al-Qaeda or Taliban leaders or suspected Arab or Uzbek or Afghan ‘militants’ have died. The numbers are often remarkably precise...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=596
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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On Vietnam, Afghanistan and Bloody Irreversibility
William J. Astore, Truthout: "Reading old articles about the Vietnam War is sobering precisely because they read like articles written yesterday. Consider just one example. On May 30, 1967, Look magazine published a comprehensive, 25-page review entitled 'USA in Asia.' The subtitle gave the game away: 'Our bloody commitments in Asia horrify many Americans. But like it or not, we are irreversibly involved.'"
http://www.truthout.org/on-vietnam-afghanistan-and-bloody-irreversibility56768
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karzai
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nato+raid
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drone
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=insurgen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=budget
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GDP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/margolis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Galloway
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tony+Benn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Silbey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+J.+Astore
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lindorff
Obama Sneaks into Kabul to Beg Karzai to Clean Up His Act
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lindorff11.1.html
--------
"Why We Should Get Out Of Afghanistan"
By George Galloway and Tony Benn
Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24561.htm
Casualties will rise in 2010, US and British officials warn
NATO forces have been fighting in Afghanistan for eight years, but casualties are rising and the insurgency shows no sign of buckling.
http://snipurl.com/uayej
Karzai demands end to Nato raids
Afghanistan's president has demanded that Nato forces in his country stop all military raids on local villages.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/02/20102814629840690.html
The Philippine War is Not So Different from Afghanistan
By David Silbey
The war in Afghanistan feels foreign to Americans: a far distant land, a confusing and alien culture, and combat against a shadowy enemy. That feeling is mistaken. America has spent much of its history fighting wars like the one in Afghanistan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24636.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
The US can no longer afford its empire
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
02/03/10
President Obama has presented Congress with a spending request of $3.8 trillion for the next fiscal year in 2011, but with a third of it not paid for with taxes, thus resulting in a $1.3 trillion deficit (a whopping 8.3 percent of GDP). The small piece of good news is that this deficit is smaller as a portion of the nation’s economic output than this year’s gargantuan 10.6 percent for FY 2010 (that $1.6 trillion deficit is a post-World War II record). Budget deficits of this magnitude have occurred before, but only during cataclysmic wars — the Civil War and World Wars I and II. Contrary to the rhetoric of congressional Republicans, who are stridently criticizing Obama for his excessive spending, these budget deficits are largely the result of George W. Bush’s new entitlement program (Medicare prescription drug coverage), the usual Republican fake tax cuts (tax cuts without concomitant reductions in government spending), bank and insurance bailouts, and the conduct of two disastrous U.S. occupations of foreign countries. Of course, Obama is far from blameless...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2724
Washington’s greatest Afghan war danger: Self-deception
Campaign For Liberty
by Tom Engelhardt
02/09/10
Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA’s ’secret’ battlefield in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles — that is, pilot-less drones — shoot missiles (18 of them in a single attack on a tiny village last week) or drop bombs and then the news comes in: a certain number of al-Qaeda or Taliban leaders or suspected Arab or Uzbek or Afghan ‘militants’ have died. The numbers are often remarkably precise...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=596
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
On Vietnam, Afghanistan and Bloody Irreversibility
William J. Astore, Truthout: "Reading old articles about the Vietnam War is sobering precisely because they read like articles written yesterday. Consider just one example. On May 30, 1967, Look magazine published a comprehensive, 25-page review entitled 'USA in Asia.' The subtitle gave the game away: 'Our bloody commitments in Asia horrify many Americans. But like it or not, we are irreversibly involved.'"
http://www.truthout.org/on-vietnam-afghanistan-and-bloody-irreversibility56768
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karzai
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nato+raid
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drone
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=insurgen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=budget
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GDP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/margolis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Galloway
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tony+Benn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Silbey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+J.+Astore
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lindorff
rudkla - 2. Feb, 06:20
