Articles tagged with: Hamid Karzai
Afghans Want to Burn Americans, Not Qurans
The people of Afghanistan have been rioting in the streets, screaming anti-U.S. slogans , and killing American citizens ever since the unfortunate “Quran-burning incident” by the U.S. military on February 24th. This two-week long binge of violent behavior and hatred toward America has been largely fueled by top officials within the Karzai regime and the powerful Council of Muslim Scholars. …
Afghanistan: America’s Co-dependent Stepchild
After almost ten years of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, the American people have almost nothing to show for their spent treasure, spilled blood, and thousands of disabled sons and daughters. Not only is the war against the Taliban insurgents going badly, but the entire Afghan economy has become totally dependent on the billions of dollars of military spending, combined with …
Afghanistan : The Opium Den of the World
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Once again, the weird and wacky world of Afghanistan politics has taken center stage. The issue this time, like many other times in the past, is Afghanistan’s bumper crop of illegal heroin. As the world’s leading supplier of heroin for decades, if not centuries, the population of this impoverished and war-torn nation know full well the importance of …
Hamid Karzai: A Taliban in Sheep's Clothing
Mr. Karzai, who owes his position and probably his very existence, to the overthrow of the Taliban government in a 2001 invasion, has become emboldened by the corrupt election that kept him in power. Under the protection of the U.S. military in Afghanistan , Mr. Karzai has been able to hold secretive meetings
Ahmadinejad in Afghanistan
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At the same time that U.S. troops in Afghanistan are putting their lives on the line fighting Taliban and al Qaida insurgents, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Kabul. As could be expected, Ahmadinejad has taken this opportunity to sharply criticize the U.S. for its military presence in Afghanistan, and …
Afghanistan: the Next American Quagmire
Over the last several months, both the Obama and the McCain campaigns have taken the position that more NATO (i.e. American) troops are needed to fight the increasingly bloody Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. Although each Presidential candidate presented a completely different view on how the situation in Afghanistan became so hopelessly entangled, both candidates agreed that more military intervention is urgently needed. It is …
