No Poppy Left Behind - Drug Production Up in Afghanistan

The 2010 cultivation area of 123,000 hectares increased 7% to 131,000 has. in 2011, and production increased 61% from 3,600 metric tons in 2010 to 5,800 mt in 2011, according to a UN survey. See...

CIA Chief Leaves Pakistan: Drone Strikes Continue

U.S. officials said the departure of the station chief won't disrupt the pace of drone strikes, which the CIA has ramped up in recent months. The CIA Chief's identity was compromised this week due to a lawsuit...

Afghanistan: Why Is America There And What Is Its Mission?

When I tell "progressives" and members of the politically correct crowd that Muslims were celebrating in the streets of Queens and Brooklyn as the Twin Towers burned to the ground, it doesn't seem to phase them...

Should Obama remain as President of the United States?

Jerome R. Corsi, WND writer (www.wnd.com) recently investigated President Barack Obama and determined that there were discrepancies in the education timeline documented by Obama in his book written in 1995, "Dreams...

3240 days in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban War

3240 days is the amount of time in days that U.S. troops have been working to help Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai stablize his country against the Taliban radicals. Tonight on CBS News General David Petraues...

War in Afghanistan fundamentally sound according to Gen. Petraeus

Gen. David Petraeus said Sunday that U.S. strategy in the Afghanistan war was "fundamentally sound" and the U.S.. was hopeful that Afghan security was beginning to stablize. He said that "to win overall" was "going...

Leading Republican Pawlenty wants more war: Nuts!

The nation cannot afford more war, I believe. In fact, war and the Department of Defense have drained the nation’s resources and distracted the nation from commercial competitiveness that is essential to the...

Civilians Killed in Afghanistan in recent Helmand Airstrike

27 Insurgents were killed in Afghanistan today according to NATO reports. In the south province of Helmand four civilians were killed during an airstrike. NATO has launched an investigation into these deaths which...

Joint Chiefs Of Staff Chairman: People's Success vs Enemy Defeat

Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this week outlined his new approach to the Iraqi and Afghanistan war in speeches at Kansas State University and the Army's Fort Leavenworth. "In this type...

Captain Simon Mailloux, Amputee Returns to Active Duty

Captain Simon Mailloux, amputee, returned to active duty in Afghanistan.  He is the fist amputee to do so.  He was one of the victims of an IED which killed his compatriots and wounded others.  " For the first while, dark thoughts flooded his mind. The...

OpEd News: Obama's Nobel speech a call for war

An angry piece from OpEd News,  by David Swanson,  argues that Obama not only rejected the Nobel Peace prize in his phony acceptance speech,  but actually used the opportunity as an "infomercial...

Moore makes plea to Obama to re-think troop surge in Afghanistan

Controversial American filmmaker Michael Moore is urging President Barack Obama not to expand the war in Afghanistan, as Washington prepares to announce its troop surge in the region.   Moore has also sent out a mass email to his...

What were motives behind leak on Afghanistan?

In Washington,  speculation abounds regarding the motives of the leak about Afghanistan policy and troops,  and what the implications are for the President.  It is wondered if some in the current...

Obama and Afghanistan : "Embracing Bush's War"

From Firedoglake:  Empire Falls?  Obama embraces Bush's Afghanistan war:  Throughout his finely crafted and robustly argued piece  -  heavily referenced  -  Jeff Kaye speaks of the dismal truth of Obama and the defense of the "Empire"...

Uzbek Unrest Prompts Border Closure

The former provinces of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have closed their borders due to civil unrest.  These countries are located in Central Asia.  Uzbekistan is of strategic importance in Asia with...

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