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Top 10 Observations Offered About Afghanistan War Strategy Speech

" Following President Barack Obama’s a war strategy speech Tuesday night, myriad observations surfaced about the way forward for the United States military in Afghanistan.  Below are my Top Ten observations about that speech: 1) It took three months for President Obama...

Money or Life? Which is more important?

  Where has our outrage gone? There was a time when a crime involving children was cause for an outcry. The desire for revenge against the monsters that harm our children. But lately, it seems, as if a...

Gen McChrystal to Lawmakers - Obama engaged in Thoughtful Process

General McChrystal was appointed as the Commander of ISAF and the Senior Commander of American troops in Afghanistan in March of this year.  President Obama announced his new strategy for Afghanistan along...

Afghanistan-Int Law and Afghan prisoners-Who prosecutes suspects?

A story is emerging in Canada this morning which raises the question of what should be done with suspects that are arrested after causing the deaths of Canadian soldiers. Sgt. Robert Short and Cpl. Robbie...

Taliban Attacks on Afghan schools-Why we should care

Acquaintances and friends of mine that have had several tours in Afghanistan have long told me why they believe in this mission.  Many of them have done the heavy lifting in Kandahar Province and have been...

Karzai a viable partner for the U.S.?

Plagued by accusations of fraud and ballot stuffing during the recent Afghan election, President Hamid Karzai was not seen as a viable partner for peace and cooperation in Afghanistan, The US Administration...

Hamid Karzai sworn in for 2nd Term, Vows to end Corruption

After a fraud ridden election, that accused Hamid Karzai supporters of stuffing ballot boxes and had his opponent Abdullah Abdullah withdraw from a re-run election, President Hamid Karzai was sworn in for a...

INC shouts: Where is Sir Erano Manalo?

Has anyone of you noticed the Iglesia ni Cristo, INC members' very rampant and wanton postings of comments and blogs have plagued the cyberspace? INC Executive Minister, Eraño de Guzman Manalo, also known as "Ka...

Security concerns force 600 UN workers out of Afghanistan

After the recent spate of attacks and heightened security concerns the UN announced its decision to temporarily relocate 600 members of its international foreign staff based in Afghanistan. The international body...

Obama Offers Taliban 6 Provinces for 8 Bases

This may be the major reason for Obama's delay in deciding what to do about Afghanistan. "When Obama stated that he was going to reach out to the Islamic world, he was not kidding. The weakness of Obama has lead...

Will Karzai's Words translate into Deeds

It is official, President Hamid Karzai has been declared the winner of, to say the least, a controversial fraud ridden election.  His opponent alleged that there was ballot stuffing during the original...

REVEALED: Indian-US-Afghan nexus behind terrorism in Pakistan

Although many Pakistani believed and have been talking of the Indian-US-Afghan nexus behind the spate of terrorism in the country during the past couple of years and were wondering why Islamabad kept mum over the issue, the Pakistani military battling terrorists in South...

Abdullah Quits, Karzai Secure, US Approves:Afghanistan

The voting drama seems to be ending in Kabul, former foreign minister and presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah quit the contest, scheduled this week. This move removed the hurdle from the path of Karzai. Meanwhile White House approved the move. " President Hamid Karzai...

Talk radio reports Godaddy registers fraudulent WHOis information

How easy it is for organizations potentially involved in criminal activity to register domain names for unlawful purposes?  Just go ask GoDaddy.  Genesmedia.com is registered with GoDaddy.  But, when we checked, only the email 'info@genesmedia.com' was actually...

US to pay Taliban members to switch sides

Using money to lure the jehadi's, strange. Person who takes oath to be a suicide bomber will take money.....surprising. If white house thinks so, it means they are using this ploy already.What is the guarantee the bribe to be good will go for good reasons. Or thay are...

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