The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Highlights a classic failure of US intel and State…..no experts with the depth or contacts necessary to conduct statecraft……. Mullah Omar gets a Russian visitor By M K Bhadrakumar Asia Times, Mar 24, 2011 EXTRACT: The executive order makes the customary reference to the new appointee’s worthy credentials as “an experienced diplomat and Orientalist”. And …
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65% of Americans Believe Afghan War Not Worth Fighting Tuesday, 15 Mar 2011 01:41 PM By Henry J. Reske Almost 65 percent of Americans now believe that the war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting. The number is up 20 points from results in 2009 when 44 percent did not think the war worth fighting, …
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ASADABAD, Afghanistan: Emotional Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday urged international troops to “stop their operations in our land”, his strongest salvo yet in a row over mistaken civilian killings. Karzai’s comments came after a week in which a relative of his was killed in a raid by foreign forces and he rejected an apology …
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SECRECY NEWS EXTRACT: DOD CONTRACTORS IN AFGHANISTAN AT A RECORD HIGH The number of private security contractors employed by the Department of Defense in Afghanistan has reached a new record high, according to DoD statistics in a recently updated report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service.
Background: According to an Afghan friend, the author of this piece was sacked from her job at IWPR, by the British, because she insisted on publishing an unpleasant truth in an article. Now she works free-lance and she’s free to publish exactly what she sees and hears. CS Those Good Old Taliban Days A desperate …
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The Afghanistan War: Tactical Victories, Strategic Stalemate? David Wood, Politics Daily, 13 February 2011 The top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, likes to describe the tactical gains his troops are making against insurgents. But a stream of independent data and analysis suggests a wide gap between those battlefield gains and the strategic progress needed …
Anyone who thinks we ought to stay in Afghanistan and that the Afghanis want us to stay should carefully read and think about the information in this important report. Chuck Spinney King David’s War Petraeus has a new plan to finish the war: Double down on a failed strategy David Hastings, Rolling Stone, 02/02/11 Read …
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