Western officials are hoping the violent outburst after the careless Koran burning at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan will not happen again. Despite their deepest desires there is no doubt that it will. This was not the first furious demonstration against the U.S. and its NATO partners, who Afghans consider occupiers, and it definitely will [...]
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Afghanistan: Time To End This War
March 7th, 2012
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Posted in Afghan elections, Afghan Taliban, Afghan War, Afghan women, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan War, Counterinsurgency, Debate, democracy, destruction, Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, insurgency, international affairs, international politics, Internatonal, intervention, Obama Afghanistan, occupation, violence, war, weapons | Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Taliban, Afghanistan War, China, India, International Security Assistance Force, Iran, Jirga, Mujhadeen, Obama Afghanistan, Pakistan, World News
Today’s Take – As the World Turns
August 25th, 2011
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This week’s earthquake is all but a distant memory. After covering it incessantly for several hours, showing the horror of the tremor that knocked chairs over and shook the CNN newsroom, most news stations went back to their continuous coverage of “the almost fallen” “yet to fall” “inevitable fall” of Qaddafi and his regime in [...]
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Today’s Take – Muddle in the Middle East, GOP Gods and more…
August 22nd, 2011
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The Muddled Middle East We start today with the news that one more repressive government, this time in Libya, is gone – well more or less. So far it seems as though The National Transition Council (NTC) spokesperson Mustafa Adel Jalil, is in control control and saying all the right things about equality, peace, justice [...]
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