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[Centurean2's Weblog] THE SECRET WAY TO WAR”¦ « Centurean2's Weblog: Thanks to a formerly secret memorandum published by the London Sunday Times on May 1, during the run-up to the British elections, we now have a partial answer to that question. The memo, which records the minutes of a meeting of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s senior foreign policy and security officials, shows that even as President Bush told Americans in October 2002 that he “hope[d] the use of force will not become necessary”””that such a decision depended on whether or not the Iraqis complied with his demands to rid themselves of their weapons of mass destruction””the President had in fact already definitively decided, at least three months before, to choose this “last resort”

[The Foreign Policy Centre] The Foreign Policy Centre: Can Syria end the Arab cold war?: Malcolm Kerr described the 1950s and 1960s in the Middle East as an "Arab cold war" pitting Nasser's Egypt and allies against conservative Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Though the actors and ideologies have changed, some form of cold .

[Spiked] The defeatism of the anti-war movement | spiked: As the ever growing tapestry of reasons for the British presence in Afghanistan has unravelleled, so the anti-war movement has picked up the thread, turning each of the ruling class’s failures into anti-war victories. ‘[The invasion of Afghanistan] was originally launched by George Bush and Tony Blair’, German writes on her Stop the War Coalition blog, ‘in order to capture Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar.

[US News Portal] We took some wrong turns in Afghanistan, but it's too early for ...: On my own ventures into the Afghan hinterland, I found that the Taliban also labored under one giant disadvantage from which the earlier mujahidin had not suffered: They had already been the government of Afghanistan and had not been loved for it. Countless people, especially women and city dwellers, had ugly memories of their cruel and stupid rule.

Mudville Gazette: Afghan National Army soldiers and U.S. Marines from Regimental Combat Team 3, Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan, conducted a raid on a known insurgent stronghold July 18 in the town of Lakari, Garmsir District. The raid force uncovered several weapons caches - including supplies used in making improvised explosive devices - and a stockpile of Afghan National Army uniforms, used by insurgents in ambush attacks.

[Investor's Iraq Forum - Iraq Dinar Forum, Iraq Investments, Iraq Stock Exchange, Iraq Bank, Iraq News, Iraqi Dinar] Kashmir: Ground zero of global jihad - Investor's Iraq Forum ...: From that time onwards, the Pakistani military leaders kept inciting the local Muslim population in the Indian-controlled state of Jammu and Kashmir to subversion and turning subversion into a guerrilla war until 1980, when they decided to wage a real jihad in Afghanistan [against the Soviets]. At the same time, Pakistan never abandoned the diplomatic option of resolving its conflicts with India.

[Socialist Youth] Troops out of Afghanistan immediately - stop US/UK military ...: The Taliban are able to finance their struggle from the drugs trade and have little to fear from the weak and corrupt Afghanistan Government. The warlords and the Karzai regime have enriched themselves while the vast majority of the population lives in abject poverty.

[SWJ Blog] 20 July SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled.

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news] The Unwinnable War in Afghanistan | Mostly Water: Take EDO/ITT for example: while they don’t like to admit they make cash supplying components to the Israelis, they are proud to admit they make entire bomb racks for British warplanes, used to murder farmers and shepherds in Afghanistan. EDO’s bomb racks are specifically designed to be used with the Paveway bombs regularly used in ”˜close air support’ missions to ”˜facilitate reconstruction and the extension of government authority’ - i.e.

[Tony Blair] 'President Blair' gets them all in a Euro-kerfuffle « Tony Blair: On the battle to defeat the Taleban in Afghanistan, do not be persuaded that the propaganda of such as the Taleban is NOT affecting the British press and in the end YOU. That is their aim, and in that they have so far been successful, thanks to the juvenile gullibility of many in  the British press.

[Izenjero's Blog] The New Great Game in Central Asia « Izenjero's Blog: With heavy military casualties and economic crises resulting from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan costing some US$45 billion, the political machinery of the Soviet Union failed to challenge the unification of East Germany with West Germany, the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and the breakup of the Islamic Central Asian Republics with its vast unexploited resources in gas and petroleum, leading to the final demise of the Soviet Union and an end to the Cold War. The ten-year conflict claimed 1.5 million Afghan lives and total devastation of the country, driving millions of Afghans into the refugee camps of Pakistan and Iran.

[First Drafts - The Prospect magazine blog] We are at war - First Drafts - The Prospect magazine blog: They must then secure the funds to prosecute this war, at the expense of the NHS, transport and education, and pay for the requisite increase in the size of the Army (it is not widely known that currently we are so over-stretched that if we had to evacuate British nationals from a country which suddenly collapsed, we could not do so). Then, and only then, will the total number of British dead which will inevitably result from this conflict stand a chance of being reduced to the level at which it should be.

[SWJ Blog] 19 July SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Germans: Of course Iran kept working on ...: Dubious D, when you say the Germans botched the WMD evidence on Iraq, is that considering what we’ve found out from Saddam’s own documents, or is that just following the MSM narrative? Much of what was believed to be inaccurate regarding Saddam’s WMD’s has been corroborated by his own documents, from George Sada, and intel from other sources, such as the Israelis.

[Blog about economics Japan] Blog about economics Japan » Gdp Per Capita For Japan: At the start of 2008, more than 2.3 million people were incarcerated, more than one in every 100 adults.[172] The current rate is about seven times the 1980 figure.[173] African American males are jailed at about six times the rate of white males and three times the rate of Hispanic males.[170] In 2006, the U.S. incarceration rate was over three times the figure in Poland, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) country with the next highest rate.[174] The country's high rate of incarceration is largely due to sentencing and drug policies.[170][175] Though it has been abolished in most Western nations, capital punishment is sanctioned in the United States for certain federal and military crimes, and in thirty-six states. Since 1976, when the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty after a four-year moratorium, there have been more than 1,000 executions.[176] In 2006, the country had the sixth highest number of executions in the world, following China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, and Sudan.[177] In 2007, New Jersey became the first state to legislatively abolish the death penalty since the 1976 Supreme Court decision, followed by New Mexico in 2009.

[Mail Online - Peter Hitchens] John Reid, Marxism, Abortion and The Fourth Commandment - Mail ...: Apart from the fact that he seems well able to look after himself (do a Google search for ”˜John Reid’, ”˜witnesses’ and ”˜Elizabeth Filkin’), he's denying doing something that he did actually do. Here's his complaint, which I mocked: ’I never at any stage expressed the hope, expectation, promise or pledge that we would leave Afghanistan without firing a shot.’

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