Posted in: Pakistan
Tuesday Jan 1, 2008
A little bit of this and a little of that
Happy New Year to everyone. I hope that everyone has a happy, healthy, prosperous and progressive New Year! We have 3 separate scenarios of how Benazir Bhutto died. 1) She was shot in the neck. 2) An explosion cause shrapnel...
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emailFriday Dec 28, 2007
"She Was Let Down By Those In Washington"
After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, her former aide Husain Haqqani told Time magazine: She was let down by those in Washington who think that sucking up to bad governments around the world is their best policy option. As long...
Saturday Dec 1, 2007
What's Worse? Taking Money from Osama, or Giving It to Him?
The ABC News blog "The Blotter" drops a leak against Musharraf's rival Nawas Sharif: The former prime minister of Pakistan ... once received a million-dollar payoff from Osama Bin Laden as a thanks for not cracking down on the militant...
Friday Nov 16, 2007
Here's Sen. Hillary Clinton discussing Pakistan at Thursday night's debate: ... there's absolutely a connection between a democratic regime and heightened security for the United States. That's what's so tragic about this situation. After 9/11, President Bush had a chance...
Thursday Nov 15, 2007
Freedom on the March (Emphasis on "March")
The NY Times picks up the smell of freedom: Several senior [Bush] administration officials said that with each day that passed, more administration officials were coming around to the belief that General Musharraf's days in power were numbered and that...
Monday Nov 12, 2007
I always felt that my foreign policy chapter in "Wait! Don't Move To Canada!" was the most important of the book. I also sensed it would be the chapter that would gain the least traction. Arguing, as I do, that...
Wednesday Oct 3, 2007
Forgive the pessimism, but the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar appears to be achieving its objective. The AP reports: "the streets [are] cleared of protesters, the Internet [is] down and many residents [are] too fearful to go out."...
Friday Aug 31, 2007
David Ignatius said yesterday, in the latest Washington Post effort to buoy Iyad Allawi's paid lobbying campaign to run Iraq again, that: "Future historians should record that the Bush administration actually lived by its pro-democracy rhetoric about a new Iraq...
Sunday Jul 22, 2007
How Did That Safe Haven Get There?
With the latest National Intelligence Estimate finding that Al Qaeda "has protected or regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability," the White House took to the Sunday shows to fight the obvious conclusion that Dubya's neocon foreign policy has...
Tuesday Jul 10, 2007
The Sorry History of Bush's Pakistan Policy
Following Sunday's NY Times report that "A secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal areas was aborted at the last minute after top Bush administration officials decided it was too risky...
Monday Sep 25, 2006
As you probably already know, the big show on Sunday was the Bill Clinton-Chris Wallace showdown on Fox News Sunday. The crystallizing moment of the exchange was: WALLACE: Do you think you did enough, sir? CLINTON: No, because I didn't...
Friday Sep 22, 2006
Bush Endorses Pakistan's Deal With Qaeda-Friendly Militants
In today's press conference with the Pakistan president, Dubya was asked about Pakistan's recent peace pact with the Islamic militants on the Afghan border: Q: ...are you satisfied with his assurances on the tribal deal? BUSH: ...I appreciate the briefing...
Friday Sep 15, 2006
Yesterday, we saw Republicans admit that getting Osama Bin Laden is not a top priority, while lying about WMD intelligence regarding Iran. In other words, instead of focusing our military on the main threat to our security, those in charge...
Wednesday Sep 6, 2006
In Dubya's latest speech about the "Global War on Terror," referring specifically to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, he said: These radicals have declared their uncompromising hostility to freedom. It is foolish to think that you can negotiate with...
