Posts about Obama Surrenders Afghanistan as of October 14, 2009

  Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai yesterday said the resignation of an Afghan member of the UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission “cast serious doubt” on its work. Mustafa Barakzai, a Supreme Court Judge who was one of two Afghans on the Commission, resigned on Monday claiming foreigners were “interfering” in its work and that Afghans had little input in its decisions. Supporters of Abdullah Abdullah, Mr Karzai’s nearest rival in the August election, claimed that Mr Karzai was behind Mr Barakzai’s sudden resignation.

Los Angeles Times Obama to mull Afghan situation with his security team WLOS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is convening his national security team again today as he mulls a decision on Afghanistan. … Obama : Afghan Troop Decision in Coming Weeks Voice of America Obama vows to decide on troops deployment in Afghanistan soon Xinhua Obama Says Decision on Afghanistan Coming in ‘Weeks’ Bloomberg The Associated Press  - Reuters  - euronews

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Politics Today: Insurance Industry Turns on Health Reform - CBS News ** Dems keep up support for the mission in Afghanistan… ** The insurance industry takes on the Senate Finance Committee’s health bill… ** What the 2009 gubernatorial races say about Obama… (CBS) PRESIDENT OBAMA: On this Columbus Day, Mr. Obama … BofA’s Board Blinks - New York Post In its high-stakes staring contest with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Bank of America’s board of directors have blinked.

Reporting the score as it stands a halftime is fine sports journalism. But it isn’t big news, just a progress report. The real news is who won, and how they did it. So the big news story of Tuesday, October 13, was a halftime report : After months of relentless courting and suspense, Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine, cast her vote with Democrats on Tuesday as the Senate Finance Committee approved legislation to remake the health care system and provide coverage to millions of the uninsured.

Reported by Ellen - October 14, 2009 - Discredited author and birther Jerome Corsi got a double segment on Hannity last night (10/13/09) to spin unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about President Obama and his “One World” policies. Although Corsi’s inflammatory and almost apocalyptic theories included accusations that Obama and his like-minded cronies are “post-American” and out to destroy the dollar and U.S. sovereignty, Sean Hannity never challenged Corsi to back up any of his claims.

Los Angeles Times Obama : Afghan strategy could change in weeks euronews US President Barack Obama says he will decide whether to send more troops to Afghanistan in a matter of weeks. He is meeting again with his national … Obama : Afghan Troop Decision in Coming Weeks Voice of America Obama Says Decision on Afghanistan Coming in ‘Weeks’ Bloomberg Obama vows to decide on troops deployment in Afghanistan soon Xinhua The Associated Press  - Reuters

This is a video compilation of 17 action-packed combat videos from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and show what our troops have been going through fighting insurgents, Al Queda and the Taliban. Remember: As soon as one video ends it will skip to the next available video without you having to do anything. WARNING: Some of the videos contain graphic scenes and raw language. Videos show US, British, Canadian and other NATO forces in firefights against the enemy.

On Friday President Obama said he was “surprised” to win the Nobel Peace Prize and doesn’t “view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments.” Greg Kaufmann At a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, former CIA officers offered clear alternatives to escalation in Afghanistan.CLICK HERE to read the entire article.

This blog - ever since late summer 2006, when I started mouthing off over the electronical Internets - has been about three things: My family. Whatever amuses and entertains me. And geopolitics. The sixth post ever - and I’m inching towards 900 now - was called ” Saturday morning 4am ” and was about the utter fucked-up-ness of a Western democracy trying to make a Western democracy out of the Ottoman dogs-dinner that was and is Iraq.

We are still trying to figure out why the Nobel Committee gave Barack Obama its annual Peace Prize. As far as it appears, the award was based on the fact that the U. S. President is a good-natured fellow who people seem to like –and who isn’t George W. Bush. In fact, committee chairman Thorbjoen Jagland didn’t really try to pretend otherwise. Consider the committee’s stated reasons, along with Mr. Jagland’s comments when reporters pressed him to justify Mr.

www.nst.com.my October 14, 2009 Peace Prize a self-fulfilling prophecy? by W.Scott Thompson* When the news of Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize came through, I was trying to decide… Well, what can we say? When you think about it, is there anyone more deserving? Obama himself said he wondered how he could be in the company of such transformative leaders, but that is self-answering, because he already has transformed not just America’s ability to foster peace in the world, but the whole international climate of cooperative endeavour.

I t was well into the time of the great dissolution. Imperial rot always begins in the core but manifests itself along the external edges. America’s time is no different. Every narrative of Fall has an arc. There are different scripts. Some end with a retrospectively imposed tangible event. Regardless of what really happened. Rome is a case in point. It ‘fell’. Other stories end with a sigh. A now-irrelevant-but-once-shared-Idea gone. That’s how we suspect America’s imperial story concludes.

“What has Obama done to earn a Nobel Peace Prize?” seems to be the going question here in the United States as well. Why grant the world’s most distinguished Peace award to someone with no concrete achievements to his credit and who is currently maintaining a strong military presence Iraq and in Afghanistan? Embedded video from [...]

The impending chaos that the article warns of if the government corruption continues is exactly what lead to the rise of the Taliban in 1996 after seven years of civil war under the rule of war lords. Essentially, Afghanistan would be reverting back in time to a state just after the Cold War: Allegations of widespread fraud in Afghanistan ‘ s Aug. 20 presidential election threaten to scuttle the international strategy to combat the burgeoning Taliban insurgency .

World. The success of President Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan may hinge on a leader whom many in the White House now see as a liability.

I don’t have TV so I was pretty psyched to see that PBS.org posted Frontline’s “Obama’s War” feature online.The film tries to answer the question of whether the US can succeed in Afghanistan.”"In Afghanistan we know what to do; we just don’t know if we have the resources or… read more

Dandelion SaladWarningThis video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.Frontline PBS October 1, 2009Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on the move in Afghanistan, led by a new commander and armed with a counterinsurgency plan that builds on the lessons of Iraq. But can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the “graveyard of empires”? And can the U.S. stop the Taliban in neighboring Pakistan, where U.S.

by Spencer Ackerman The Washington Independent As President Obama and his advisers debate strategy for the Afghanistan war and its related crisis in Pakistan, a factor that so far has not intruded on their discussions is emerging: the antiwar movement is showing signs of strength. In Congress and around the country, a segment of the progressive movement that helped elect Obama is coalescing around a critique of the eight-year war.

WATCH OUT for Erdogan and Obama PEACE PLAN, Turkey, Syria, and Iran DRAWING CLOSER Together! Diplomatic Diplomacy Becomes DIPLOMATIC DISASTER! Diplomatic Dialog Becomes a Deadly DIALOG NIGHTMARE! Democrat Politics: Iraq War Wrong – Afghanistan Right War, Now exploding in their President’s face as Foreign Policy Sinks In the Middle East and on North Korean platforms of Aggression! Great Eloquent And Condescending Speeches Don’t Impress Islam, Nor do they impress North Korea – only far left fans of Barack Obama!

Los Angeles Times U.K. to Add Troops in Afghanistan Wall Street Journal Britain is preparing to deploy hundreds of additional troops to Afghanistan, deepening the UK’s commitment to the unpopular war even as the Obama administration re-evaluates its entire approach to the conflict … Troops to Afghanistan: Logistics May be Tougher than the Politics TIME Obama: Afghan Troop Decision in Coming Weeks Voice of America Kerry wary of sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan Reuters The Associated Press U.K.

Washington, Oct 14 (IANS) As the Obama administration reviews its Afghanistan strategy, a leading US daily suggests that Washington needs to understand that the road to stability in Afghanistan runs through Pakistan and India. The devastating terrorist attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul last week signals a new sense of urgency to the Obama [...]

In the past few weeks, as President Barack Obama closes in on a decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan, a couple of alluring ideas have resurfaced in Washington. The first is that talks with the Taliban, or with members of the fundamentalist Islamist movement, might be worth pursuing more agressively, to advance the day that U.S. troops could begin to leave. Go here to see the original:  Reasoning with the Taliban

Oct.13, 2009 in barack obamaBefore we send more troops to Afghanistan, the Obama administration needs to focus on what kind of Afghan government we have as our partner.Tags: elesctions2008

Brendan Nicholson; 14/10/09An extraordinary 40 per cent of the billions of dollars in aid destined for Afghanistan never reaches the country, a top international specialist on the region has warned. Anthony Cordesman, from the US Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said in Canberra yesterday that the massive waste of international aid was one of the great failures of the campaign to win the war in Afghanistan.

admin 13 October 2009Bizzare and Offbeat No CommentYoung Marine Obama Knew Personally Dies a Hero as President Weighs Whether to Send More Troops to Afghanistan

This afternoon I watched the half hour preview of PBS Frontline’s ‘Obama’s War’ and it was riveting.  The small portion shown focuses on a group of Marines attempting to protect a village of civilians in Helmand Province.  Their amazing efforts are awe inspiring to me.  My only problem with PBS’s job is the name.  The war in Afghanistan is not just ‘Obama’s’, it is ‘our’ war.  The United States will win or lose the war.  If one wants to designate the war to anyone specific, it would be these marines doing the fighting, peacemaking, and dying.

I wish he was wrong.As personalities, the syntax-mangling Ike and the self-consciously intellectual David Petraeus don’t have much in common. But politically, they’re in a parallel position. Today’s GOP has a right-wing base that can damage Obama, but none of its favorites have a prayer of winning the White House. The reason is that just like the Republican right of the early 1950s, which kept insisting that the New Deal constituted socialism (or fascism), today’s conservative activists have not accommodated themselves to some basic shifts in public mood.

“As President Obama considers what to do about Afghanistan, it is important that he hear perspectives from all sides concerned about that critical region. In Riyadh, it is clear that the Taliban are not becoming more popular in Afghanistan, as some have claimed. … Nor are the Taliban a cohesive or uniform political party, with a chain of command and a political manifesto. … Nor is merely disabling Osama bin Laden enough, as some suggest.

Herman Melville, C. L. R. James & Donald Pease: deep dreams of America as the utopian world-nation Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Donald Pease. (49 minutes, 23 mb mp3) Re-read Moby-Dick and be cured of these absurd Nobel blues. The Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama underlines the world’s idea of our “transnational” President, our transnational country and our transnational moment. So does Moby-Dick , the mother of all literary imaginings of America in crisis.

World. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is President Obama’s in-house pessimist on Afghanistan, a role that represents an evolution in his own thinking, a shift from his days as a liberal hawk.

Afghan drug trade troubles Taylor (The Biloxi Sun Herald) BILOXI U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor talked about the war in Afghanistan, health care, insurance and other issues Monday at a town hall meeting. Did Karzai Meddle in Afghan Fraud Probe? (ABC News) Abdullah campaign: Afghan president trying to undermine fraud investigations. Obama: Afghanistan decision in ‘coming weeks’ (AP via Yahoo! News) President Barack Obama said his decision on the U.S.

Actually, the prize David Suzuki actually received is named the “Right Livelihood Award”, but is otherwise known as the “alternative Nobel” prize. Just like Al Gore, David Suzuki has won his award not based on actually accomplishing anything, but merely for “raising awareness” about climate change. Which is sort of like handing out awards for being good in public relations [not that I don't think such awards exist in some corporate retreats and getaways], but not actually achieving anything.

BY MICHAEL SCHEUER One has to admire the ingenuity of the policymakers, journalists, and generals who are desperately seeking to avoid hard decisions on what to do about America’s lost war in Afghanistan. Last spring, the Barack Obama administration, Republican leaders, and senior U.S. generals signed on to the fairy-tale prescription spun by David Kilcullen in [...]

All the great struggles of history have been won by superior will-power wresting victory in the teeth of odds or upon the narrowest of margins. Winston Churchill By Con George-Kotzabasis President Obama’s “knife-throwing” Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, as depicted by New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd, has put the ‘Vietnam knife’ on the throat of an already scared president. It has been reported that he has been telling Obama that if he goes for victory in Afghanistan, he will become LBJ, the domestic visionary destroyed by a foreign war.

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Oct14 News Anchor AP – Rampant government corruption may derail the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan even if as many as 80,000 additional U.S. troops are sent to the war, the top military commander there has concluded, according to U.S. officials briefed on his recommendations.Read the Full StoryAP sources: Afghan commander frets over corruption (AP) Share and Enjoy:Related News PostsOctober 13, 2009 — Official: Taliban better financed than al-Qaida (AP) – 1638th

Previous: Pay Careful Attention America: Mark Steyn & Ezra Levant in Ottawa Battle The Very Slippery Slope Of “Hate Speech” Legislation – w/Videos The Washington Examiner : Dems undermine free speech in hate crimes ploy By: Byron York What does a hate crimes bill have to do with money for U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq? Nothing, except that the National Defense Authorization Act, which will win final passage in Congress and be sent to the president’s desk this week, also contains the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.

By Charles Hugh Smith, OFTWOMINDS In a time of war, the Nobel peace Prize is already old news. Perhaps that is more significant than the prize itself. Here are 10 questions. The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize has already been parsed by pundits of all stripes and is thus now “old news” as the hot war in Afghanistan fades to “background news.” The disconnect between the awarding of the Nobel peace Prize to a U.S. president leading two hot wars is painfully obvious, and so pundits of all political stripes have been scurrying for meaningful context.

Newsweek UK to Add Troops in Afghanistan Wall Street Journal Britain is preparing to deploy hundreds of additional troops to Afghanistan, deepening the uk’s commitment to the unpopular war even as the Obama administration re-evaluates its entire approach to the conflict … Obama: Afghan Troop Decision in Coming Weeks Voice of America Kerry wary of sending more U.S.

Charles Krauthammer is right–again. President Obama really is an indecisive, brooding, Prince Hamlet. Like Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh, he’s got the diction part right, and he doesn’t even have to worry about remembering his lines–Obama has a teleprompter. All the world may be a stage to Obama, but running things, is well, the thing if you are president. As CBS News reports, the Hamlet is letting events play him. President Barack Obama says he will make his decision on new U.S.

FOXNews Obama: Afghan Troop Decision in Coming Weeks Voice of America US President Barack Obama says he will decide on whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan in a matter of weeks. The White House is adding on more high level meetings to discuss possible changes in strategy. … Kerry wary of sending more U.S.

UN: Millions will starve as rich nations cut food aid Senate apology to native people a good first step by Sarah Van Gelder Court denies government attempt to delay records, again from EFF Jon Stewart: CNN nobody leaves more things there Geography of job loss Henry Paulson’s revealing phone records from The Daily Beast Tim Geithner’s phone records no better from The Daily Beast US ammunition blamed for Iraqi cancer hike Obama quietly sends 13,000 more troops to Afghanistan from The Guardian How deep is DC corruption?

FOXNews Kerry wary of sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, who will travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan this week, said on Tuesday he was “very wary” of sending more American troops to the region. … Pakistan’s Partial War on Terror Wall Street Journal Obama vows to decide on troops deployment in Afghanistan soon Xinhua AP sources: Afghan commander frets over corruption The Associated Press Bloomberg Kerry wary of sending more U.S.

An open letter to Ms.Hillary Clinton U.S. Secretary of State by Asoka Weerasinghe, Canada.The report from Belfast, Ireland, announced your statement, “To me terrorism is terrorism. Those who try to disrupt the peace of people going about their daily lives are out of step and out of time,” confirms your country’s bizarre policy on the ‘Trinity on Terrorism’. What’s going on in Obama administration? When it comes to dealing with Terrorism, you are out their flying around the world, throwing your weight around, not only with your double-speak, but now with your triple-speak.

Background from TPM on September 16, 2009: In an interview with TPM just now, Birther evangelist Orly Taitz fired back at Clay Land, the U.S. district court judge who tore apart Birtherism and threatened Taitz with sanctions in an order today, saying that “somebody should consider trying [the judge] for treason and aiding and abetting this massive fraud known as Barack Hussein Obama.” “This is so outrageous what this judge did — it goes in the face of law and order,” said Taitz, reached at her office in Mission Viego, CA.

In the UK Members of Parliament (MP’s) from all political parties have been warned that they face being kicked out of Parliament (above) if they refuse to abide by a recent retrospective review over their expenses for the last 5 years and don’t pay back over-claimed money. Both Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Opposition Leader David Cameron have said that any MP’s that resist the financial payback demands raised by the review conducted by Sir Thomas Legg could lose the support of their party and be de-selected for their parliamentary seats at the forthcoming general election.

James Estrin/New York TimesComptroller William C. Thompson Jr. and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg arrived, separately, at El Museo del Barrio for the first mayoral debate on Tuesday evening. Updated, 8:45 p.m. | Tonight was the first of two hourlong televised debates between Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. Mr. Thompson is running as a Democrat; Mr. Bloomberg as Republican and independent. City Room live-blogged the debate, sponsored by the city’s Campaign Finance Board and held at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem.