afghanistan
Ephemeral Ruminations: The Oil Drum | There is plenty of oil but . . .
| Mon, 2009-12-14 20:24 — David Herron |
The Real Reason Obama Is Escalating In Afghanistan | World | AlterNet
| Wed, 2009-12-09 22:56 — David Herron |
Chris Parenti suggests "The real purpose of these 30,000 soldiers is to make Obama look tough as he heads toward the next U.S. presidential election." I think he's forgetting the things Obama said about the two wars. He called Afghanistan the just war, the one we should have fought, rather than the delusionary distraction war in Iraq. Parenti suggests "It is political theater, nothing else" and I suggest that Parenti should reread Obama's speeches from 2007-8.
Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan Revealed | World | AlterNet
| Tue, 2009-11-24 09:54 — David Herron |
An elite division of Blackwater plans targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. And everyone's denying it. At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The Nation has found.
