Before President Trump’s diplomatic rapprochement, Kim had good reason to fear America. In recent years Washington has regularly threatened, sanctioned, bombed, and invaded a gaggle of essentially helpless Third World states, including Afghanistan, Grenada, Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Panama, Serbia...
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Obama, calling Afghanistan, “the central front in the war against terrorism,” preaches that he wants to “ensure America’s security” by sending an additional 20,000 troops to the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. On December 11 2008, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, arrived in Afghanistan. While ...
Why? Afghanistan has a nice little system of Bacha-bazi. We could do that. After all, what does it matter? Children are already prostituting themselves anyway. No big deal. Our society is playing with fire, and it seems more people just don’t care, than do care. Reply LR says: ...
A member of Afghan security forces looks at a damaged car at the site of yesterday's night-time car bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2021.©REUTERS/Stringer Afghanistan’s falling apart again and the Taliban’s on the brink of victory, as I predicted. So, why did the 20-ye...
“Now to my fourth lesson, says Stoltenberg, military power has its limits.” And then and then he goes into a discursis on how NATO failed in Afghanistan and concludes as follows. “So the lesson learned, he says, is that the purpose of any future military op...
The free press is under attack. Lying is the new normal. Basically, WTF, America? So I have felt sad, depressed and afraid. Not conducive to writing a blog about food rituals. But it is the last week of 2017, and I didn’t want to let the year end without having a final word. ...
“I’m anxious about re-engaging on these questions. I took a pretty severe beating at The New York Times, enough of a beating that I kept thinking, ‘God, I must have done something horribly wrong.’” But he insists: “I thought and still think what I did at the newspaper was ...
How did the September 11th terror attacks change American foreign policy? Explain. a. They led to the global war on terror and the wars in and Afghanistan, b. They promoted greater diplomatic engagement with the Islamic world, c. They pushed the U.S. in Why is America increasing oil produ...
Why did the US invade Afghanistan in the first place? It was al Qaeda, the international terror network, not Afghanistan’s Taliban – a regional Islamic political and military force – that attacked the US on 9/11. But the masterminds of the attack, including Osama bin Laden, had been op...