November 19, 2008
Here’s something you’ll be glad to hear: the Netherlands stands ready to assist with the mooted closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay that the Obama transition team is reported to be working on. As reported in the Dutch Christian newspaper Nederlands Dagblad (“Help US close cell...
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This article is also available at Family Security Matters.I spent a lot of time thinking about this column before putting pen to paper. The conclusion was in the back of my mind for some time, but I had resisted providing any kind of fodder for the left. Nevertheless, I believe the totality of the e...
go to article »November 18, 2008
USAID, the independent federal government agency that provides humanitarian and development asistance under the foreign policy guidance of the Secretary of State spent $2.4 billion across the whole of the Middle East in 2007, including all reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The Bush administration did ...
go to article »November 17, 2008
The Iraqi cabinet voted overwhelmingly Sunday to approve the security agreement that sets the conditions for the Americans' continued presence in Iraq from Jan. 1 until the end of 2011. Next the measure goes to parliament, where it is expected to be approved as well.Iraqis are telling each other the...
go to article »November 16, 2008
Conversation between Sarko and Putin, last August during the Georgian crisis: Putin: “I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls” Sarko: “Hang him?” Putin: “Why not? The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein.” Sarko: “Yes but do you want to end up like Bush?” Putin: “Ah — you have sco...
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The Tbilisi Blues comments on video footage of Fox News reporters fleeing what they describe as “Georgian forces firing at journalists” during the recent war with Russia. Tbilisi-based journalist Paul Rimple says that the news channel got it wrong. ...
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Barack Obama's victory in the election for the next president of the United States on 4 November 2008 was an undeniable symbol of progress for the entire world, including for the middle east. For months, as the opinion-polls fluctuated and Obama gradually established a perceptible lead, Arab po...
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Elsewhere in openDemocracy, Anita Inder Singh explores the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which poses one of the toughest foreign policy challenges facing the next president. Singh paints a bleak picture: "The Taliban now control at least one-third of the country; President Karzai'...
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20 Countries in the World according to an American Presidential order in 2004 were an open playground to the American army to lauch raids whenever where ever in those 20 countries it wants. I guess some of you have read the NYT important report that there was a 2004 secret order from Bush to th...
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If we are to believe the Washington Post, the Iraqis are so useless that their security forces don't have a prayer. The message from this article is let's just leave them behind and get the hell out of Iraq. These security forces are sectarian, they drive too fast, and so on. Sure Iraq's a little be...
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