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[Tikkun Magazine - Current Thinking] Tikkun Magazine - Tom Hayden on The Long War: Iraq, Afghanistan ...: Pakistan's strategic military doctrine from preparation for another conventional (or even nuclear) war against. India to a counterinsurgency war against the Taliban embedded amid its own domestic population, especially .

[America at War] Understanding the Long War | America at War: those that were tried in Iraq] are being transferred to Afghanistan and Pakistan, with US troop levels destined to reach 70,000 this year, bringing the overall Western force level closer and closer to the declining total in Iraq. In Afghanistan, the expanded American forces will concentrate on destroying the poppy fields and villages dominated by the Taliban in southern Kandahar and Helmund provinces, a resource-denial strategy from the Indian wars.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Obama's Afghanistan Strategy Copies Bush's Surge: While it is reassuring that Obama is not making radical deviations from the Bush administration in the prosecution of Iraqi and Afghan wars, I do not see how the McChrystal appointment signals a degree of open-mindedness from the administration. How will open-mindedness prevail if Democrats do not allow Obama to prosecute an effective war in Afghanistan, if they are forced to respond to all the grumblings in their base?

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news] The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia | Mostly Water: After the success of humanitarian intervention in Cuba in 1898, the next step in the mission assigned by Providence was to confer "the blessings of liberty and civilization upon all the rescued peoples" of the Philippines (in the words of the platform of Lodge's Republican party)--at least those who survived the murderous onslaught and widespread use of torture and other atrocities that accompanied it. These fortunate souls were left to the mercies of the US-established Philippine constabulary within a newly devised model of colonial domination, relying on security forces trained and equipped for sophisticated modes of surveillance, intimidation and violence.

[Not In His Name] THE TORTURE MEMOS - NOAM CHOMSKY « Not In His Name: A broader reason is that torture has been routine practice from the early days of the conquest of the national territory, and then beyond, as the imperial ventures of the "infant empire" -- as George Washington called the new Republic -- extended to the Philippines, Haiti, and elsewhere. Furthermore, torture was the least of the many crimes of aggression, terror, subversion and economic strangulation that have darkened US history, much as in the case of other great powers.

[CFR.org - Interviews] Winning the Information War in Afghanistan and Pakistan - Council ...: In War of Necessity, War of Choice, Richard N. Haass contrasts the decisions that shaped the conduct of two wars between the United States and Iraq involving the two presidents Bush and Saddam Hussein, and writes an authoritative, personal account of how U.S. foreign policy is made, what it should seek, and how it should be pursued.

[Countercurrents.org] The Torture Memos And Historical Amnesia By Noam Chomsky: The first Secretary of War, General Henry Knox, described "the utter extirpation of all the Indians in most populous parts of the Union" by means "more destructive to the Indian natives than the conduct of the conquerors of Mexico and Peru."

[IDSA Updates] IDSA:: Policy Brief: India's Confrontation with Terror: Need for ...: India should demand tangible cooperation from the US and leverage its newfound influence in Washington to exert pressure on Pakistan to eschew from its policy of promoting terror in India. While India introspects and contemplates measures to obviate another Mumbai style attack, the international community and the US in particular, also have an obligation to prevent Crimes Against Humanity, a term that includes, “inhumane acts committed against any civilian population” from being perpetrated again in the nation that has suffered the most on account of this scourge.

[SWJ Blog] 17 May SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): The latest revelations have come on top of an influence-peddling scandal involving the president's two sons, Tomás and Geronimo, and a widening probe of the links between Uribe's allies in Congress and right-wing paramilitary death squads.

[Latest Activity on The Kingdomz X] Thunder X Speaks! - The Kingdomz X: John Legend: "From the war in Iraq to credit-default swaps to the internet bubble to the real estate bubble, too often we got caught up in the hype and fail to see the real truth...Too often, we become apathetic. ...

[FP Passport] The end of the Tigers? | FP Passport: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is expected .In a sense, this clear doctrine stands as a professional's protest against the unrealistic goal setting, poor planning, under manning, and absence of exit strategy that has typified most of our recent conflicts.

[Christianity Today Politics] How to Evangelize in Afghanistan | Politics | Christianity Today: If you truly want to evangelize in the muslim world: repudiate Islamo-fascist war on terror rhetoric in our churches and form a highly visible evangelical movement calling for the removal of all troops from Afghanistan and Iraq and publically repent for previous support of our nation’s activities there.

[The Hill's Pundits Blog] The Hill's Pundits Blog » The New Victorians: Obama's Hundred ...: But it will not necessarily be remembered as the cornerstone for a new American Victorian age of pacification and foreign conquest either. My old country people in the hills of North Carolina wanted this war as revenge against the 9/11 attacks but they seem to have been fully satisfied by the getting of Saddam Hussein.

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