Articles tagged with: United States armed forces
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. …
Cultural Ineptitude: We Must Leave Afghanistan
We entered Afghanistan after 9/11 ostensibly to look for Osama bi Laden. Lo these many years later, we are as hated there by Afghan citizens as we were when we first arrived. To some extent, I can understand.
The Afghanistan citizens, both civilian and military, are furious with US troops who disposed of Qurans in a fire pit almost one week …
The Lessons in Leaving Iraq
Over the last week the U.S. military officially pulled out of Iraq after almost ten years of war and occupation. The last of the remaining combat troops and equipment were moved across the border to Kuwait, and loaded on board vessels for the trip home to America. There were no triumphant speeches from American politicians, nor were there jubilant celebrations …
Obama’s Sending Troops to Central Africa
Many football fans (especially those who live in the Cleveland area) may recall that fateful evening, not so long ago, when Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, packed up his equipment in the middle of the night and moved the team to Baltimore. Although Modell had the legal right to move the team to another city, he also …
Afghanistan Conflict Marks Ten Year Anniversity
On Friday, October 7, the United States reached grim milestone. This date marked the ten year anniversary of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan. During this period of time over 1,700 American service men and women have been killed, thousands more have been wounded and maimed, and the cost to the taxpayers has exceeded one trillion dollars. In addition to American …
Obama Administration Defies The War Powers Act
After the American Revolution was fought and won, the representatives of the thirteen colonies met in Philadelphia to decide how the Articles of Confederation could be changed to provide for a more effective federal government. At that time in American history the thirteen states were operated more like thirteen separate countries than one nation; each with its own set of …
Iraq Gears Up For Civil War
Sometimes it’s difficult to comprehend that it has been almost twenty years since President George H. W. Bush first sent American fighting forces to Iraq. Although Saddam Hussein‘s army was very quickly defeated, and Iraq’s occupation army was removed from Kuwait, the American “war effort” continued in one form or another. For at least ten of the twenty years of …
Pakistani General Kayani Makes Dire Warning
Few people would dispute that 2011 has not been a really good year for the concept of “peace on Earth”. Popular rebellions have spread across North Africa, from Tunisia and Sudan to Egypt and Libya. The Middle Eastern countries of Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Jordan have also experienced violence and social unrest brought about by years, even decades, of oppression …
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
The Trial Must Go On; The Sooner the Better
The accused September 11 “mastermind”, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is like a bad case of indigestion that just won’t go away. After almost ten years of captivity at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, KSM still has neither been formally arraigned nor brought to trial. In this case the concept of Habeas Corpus has apparently been permanently suspended due to …
