Any US efforts failing to stabilise Afghanistan and Iraq before the end of the Obama presidency could feasibly be blamed on their having been inherited from the previous regime. By direct contrast, however, the nuclearisation of Iran would represent the biggest American foreign policy blunder of this century
The Pak-US chinwag of last week has offered [...]
In the wake of growing realization that Taliban can not be defeated by military means alone, world’s attention has shifted dramatically towards a potential “exit strategy” in Afghanistan. Although, President Barack Obama talked of an ‘uncompromising core of the Taliban’ which must be defeated, but facing dwindling public support for a war now into its [...]
While the Obama administration is watching the battlefield in Afghanistan, hoping for a quick weakening of the Taliban, regional powers are ratcheting up tensions in and outside that country. Pakistan and Iran in particular want to ensure that by the time the United States is ready to talk to the Taliban, the region’s future will [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against US President Barack Obama, demanding legal basis for America’s deadly drone attacks overseas.
The lawsuit requests essential information on the fatalities of drone strikes and other information essential for judging the legality of using armed drones to carry out targeted killings, the United Press International [...]
President Obama’s inaugural pledge to defeat Al Qaeda and Taliban appears in stark contrast to the ground realities in Afghanistan. Obama’s much hyped AF PAK policy is believed to have been practically castigated to history after multiple reviews. The US military’s assessment of the war in Afghanistan too paints a bleak picture. The Taliban today [...]
“The stages of history are replete with chants and choruses of the conquerors of old who came killing in pursuit of peace”. Martin Luther King
The attempted terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas day and the “revelation” that al-Qaeda has regrouped and is planning more attacks from Yemen is generating renewed attention to [...]
President Barack Obama has finally announced his long-awaited new US strategy on Afghanistan after extensive consultations with his advisers: some wanted to increase 30,000 additional troops so that they could concentrate their effort in the south and southeast, in the provinces that border Pakistan, while others advocated at concentrating on the strongholds from where the [...]
It could not have been a mere coincidence that both George Bush Jr and President Obama chose the military setting of West Point to proclaim their new militarist strategic doctrines - one, an extensive global doctrine of pre-emption and rejection of deterrence, the other relating to Afghanistan. The scope of the two statements reflects the [...]
Al Qaeda spokesperson has claimed in a recently released video message that the recent flurry of suicide attacks in Pakistan is being managed by the United States’s intelligence agencies.
If the Al Qaeda is so concerned about the Pakistanis then why don’t in the hell they just lay off terrorism and start negotiations with the world? [...]
