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President Obama's Approval Numbers Rise To 62%

In the latest Gallup tracking poll on the public approval of President Obama's job performance, his approval numbers have ticked up slightly to 62% approval vs. 31% disapproval. These are improved public approval numbers than the low of 57% he...

Posted on July 3, 2009 2:11 PM

Congressional Republicans Poised To Vote Against Funding The Wars They Created

This week it is highly likely that all 178 GOP members of Congress will vote against the further funding of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite the fact that these are both wars supported and created by the previous...

Posted on June 8, 2009 3:17 PM

The U.S. Military & The Afghan Language Bible Burning Controversy

Some religious groups are hyping an incident from nearly one year ago involving a U.S. serviceman serving in Afghanistan who received Bibles from his church back home that were printed in Pashto and another Afghan language solely to be used...

Posted on May 25, 2009 4:06 PM

Some Foreign Policy Problems Are Hard To Bomb Your Way Out Of

The recent collateral damage and refugee problems from the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan are more proof that some foreign policy situations are very difficult to simply bomb your way out of. One commenter yesterday even suggested that the...

Posted on May 10, 2009 4:08 AM

Collateral Damage

After a successful summit with the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan at the White House this week to rid both nations of the Taliban as well as Al Qaeda serious "collateral damage" incidents in both nations have created some some...

Posted on May 9, 2009 3:56 AM

President Obama Determined To Make Success Against Al Qaeda And Taliban A Major Foreign Policy Goal

Yesterday, in a major summit arranged at the White House, President Obama met with the rival leaders of both Pakistan and Afghanistan who have been blaming each other for problems with Al Qaeda and the Taliban and allowing terrorism. President...

Posted on May 7, 2009 1:42 PM

Obama Administration Gains Foreign Policy Success In Pakistan Government Push Against Taliban

The Obama Administration gained a huge foreign policy success by urging the government of Pakistan to take a strong military stand against a Taliban offensive that threatened the capital city of Islamabad. The Obama Administration finally succeeded in making the...

Posted on April 30, 2009 3:06 PM

Disputed Reports Claim Taliban Forces Withdrew From Region Near Capital

Heavily disputed reports on Friday by the government of Pakistan claim that Taliban forces withdrew from the Buner District only 60 miles near the capital of Islamabad. However, other independent sources such as some human rights organizations have seen no...

Posted on April 24, 2009 3:47 PM

Pakistan Deploying Some Forces For Possible Military Confrontation With Taliban

The official government of Pakistan has sent some paramilitary forces to the Buner District which were ambushed by Taliban fighters early today, setting up a possible confrontation between the government and advancing Taliban forces. The Taliban has been known for...

Posted on April 23, 2009 2:36 PM

President Obama Wins NATO Support For More Afghanistan Troops, But Serious Afghan Social Problems Remain Unaddressed

In yet another foreign policy success this week, President Obama won commitments from Britain, France and Germany to provide 5,000 more troops to supplement the 21,000 new American forces that will sent to Afghanistan in a renewed effort to destroy...

Posted on April 4, 2009 2:14 PM

Sharp Uptick In Violence In Iraq Proves That Iraqi Military Still Not Ready To Defend Their Own Nation

The shocking uptick in violence in Iraq in the last few days including bombings at events recruiting new security forces, sadly indicates that the Iraqi military is simply not yet up to the task of defending their own nation. This...

Posted on March 11, 2009 2:30 AM

Film Details Possible American & Northern Alliance Massacre Of Thousands Of POWs

A film produced and directed by former BBC producer Jamie Doran, who is Irish, gives pretty compelling evidence of a massive massacre of thousands of Taliban prisoners by American soldiers and their Northern Alliance Afghan fighter allies. 8,000 Taliban prisoners...

Posted on December 16, 2008 4:05 PM

Al Qaeda Website Endorses John McCain As Their Best Terrorist Weapon To Ruin U.S.

After Barack Obama gained the influential endorsement of General Colin Powell and many major newspapers including the CHICAGO TRIBUNE which hasn't endorsed a Democrat for president in 150 years, John McCain received an embarrassing endorsement from a shadowy Al Qaeda...

Posted on October 23, 2008 9:04 AM

The Dangerous Bush-McCain October Surprise

Republican strategists are certainly expecting a very tough political environment to retain the White House in 2008, and the Bush Administration is gearing up for a huge new military effort staged from Afghanistan to capture Osama Bin Laden and announce his capture right before the election in an effort to boost John McCain.

Posted on June 16, 2008 11:43 AM

Obama and Rezko: Is there a Syrian and Islamic Connection?

Barack Obama's ties to Tony Rezko may be a lot deeper and lot more convoluted than previously revealed, and there are signs that Islamic interests may be represented in some strangely 'disconnected yet connected' way as well.

Posted on February 16, 2008 1:07 PM

CHARLIE WILSON'S Cold War

While both Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts are indeed fine actors and their new film, CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR no doubt stands well on it's own as a fine dark political comedy, the film still continues to stir the dangerous pot...

Posted on December 20, 2007 8:30 AM

Afghanistan, Our Narco-Warlords vs the Taliban's. Who's Winning?

One of Bush and Cheney's favorite themes is how they have liberated the people of Iraq and Afghanistan from tyranny. In February, 2007 Bush gave an inspiring speech on the progress in Afghanistan at the Mayflower, the hotel not the...

Posted on November 24, 2007 9:00 AM

Bush's Other Unfinished War

It's a virtual certainty that Bush will leave office with upwards of 100,000 American troops bogged down in the disastrous quagmire of Iraq, but what about that other war that started on his watch? The one in Afghanistan? Increasingly, Afghanistan...

Posted on November 10, 2007 6:00 PM

Pakistan is Ground Zero for the War on Terror

Despite President Bush's repeated and strenuous declarations that Iraq is the central front in the war on terror there is more evidence today that the Afghanistan-Pakistan front is where the real action is happening as reported by MSNBC: Three suspected...

Posted on September 5, 2007 4:00 PM

Our Attack That Killed Afghan Kids Deliberately: US Military Officials

Just over a week ago, we at 'Wizbangblue' talked about a horror story in which the US bombed a "compound" in Paktika province, Afghanistan, where it was claimed "nefarious activity" was ocurring. Seven children died in the bombing raid. Sgt....

Posted on June 29, 2007 8:00 AM

'Nefarious Activity' was Occurring at the Site. Why we are Losing the War in Afghanistan as Well.

Now that is become too dangerous to take on the Taleban on the ground in Afghanistan, the US and Nato are resorting more and more to aerial power and the inevitable mistakes and rather torturous rationalizations. 'Whatever it is I'm...

Posted on June 19, 2007 3:17 PM

Hubris

Yesterday, I had a post about the results of America's 'war on drugs' in Latin America, and its disconnectedness with reality. Mark Kleiman has an excellent column on the hubris of the Bush administration foreign policy and how it relates...

Posted on May 30, 2007 12:10 PM

Losing Afghanistan

The fighting in Afghanistan has escalated sharply in recent weeks. On Saturday, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded market in the northern city of Kunduz. Nine people, including three German soldiers, were killed. On Sunday, a suicide...

Posted on May 21, 2007 8:00 PM

French President-Elect Sarkozy Suggests A Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan

It didn't take President-Elect Nicolas Sarkozy of France very long to draw a new line where the foreign policy of France parts ways with the foreign policy of the U.S. But Sarzozy is already expressing the sort of independent streak...

Posted on May 14, 2007 2:35 PM

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