AF-PAK:Towards Pak-Afghan Harmonization

Besides, sharing common values, culture, and comparable stakes, both countries have a history of interdependence. Foreign interferences, influences, and imperialism cannot force the people to think differently. Pakistan visualizes a peaceful, stable, and economically affluent Afghanistan. It also wishes the Afghanistan freed from the foreign interferences and forays with an ethnically cohesive society. The wish for a stable Afghanistan is the collective voice of 180 million people of Pakistan

U.S. Marines Leading Fight Against Taliban

The Marine approach — creative, aggressive and, at times, unorthodox — has won many admirers within the military.

KHALIL NOURI: AFGHANISTAN: REVISION TO MAJOR JIM GANT’S DOCTRINE: “ONE TRIBE AT A TIME”

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Major Jim Gant, an Army silver star Green Beret hero, considered the best field grade officer for the “AfPak Hands” program. He is also the author of “One Tribe at a Time” and an outspoken advocate of Afghan [...]

GORDON DUFF: AFGHANISTAN AND AMERICA: OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL APPROACH

SharePRECONCEPTIONS, MISCONEPTIONS AND “NO FEEDBACK LOOP” LEADS TO AMERICAN DISASTER IN AFGHANISTAN
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I have only recently returned from the region where I toured as a journalist and lecturer.  Our group included Jeff Gates, Raja Mugtaba, BG Asif Haroon Raja and BG Ali Raza and me of Veterans Today and Opinion Maker.  We [...]

THE NEW WORLD ORDER—AND PAKISTAN

The term New World Order was in wide popular use in the early 1990s. Then it gradually disappeared from the scene, and has since been hardly heard of. This is quite in line with the guileful game plan of its originators. They are having their new order methodically enforced in every country, while the people, although tormented by the ever worsening economic, social and political conditions around them, remain ignorant of the real villains and their game.

at-Largely: The Truth Blurts

Individuals in the upper level of the Pentagon and media polloi are beginning to commit a cardinal sin. They’re blurting the truth – sort of. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the military’s senior spin surgeon (his father was a Hollywood publicity agent), says that “Afghans are in the lead” of the Marjah offensive. But not everybody involved in writing the narrative is willing to tell a lie that big.

NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ON “COL. IMAM” PUZZLING

ShareGORDON DUFF:  Special Forces Trained “Col. Imam” Outspoken Critic of US Policy Wrongly Accused by Time
Times Reporter Victimized by “Spoof”
By Gordon Duff / STAFF WRITER / Senior Editor
Yesterday, the New York Times, in an article by journalist Carlotta Gall, “the queen” of the Kabul press corps, published an article accusing Special Forces trained Brigidier General Sultan [...]

GORDON DUFF: FREEING DR. AAFIA, A MATTER OF HONOR

ShareTHE SERVICE AND SACRIFICE OF ALL AMERICAN WAR VETERANS IS AT STAKE
MY HONOR IS NOT FOR SALE, NOT FOR A LIE
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Veterans Today Editors, Jeff Gates, Raja Mujtaba and I were in the AF-Pak region over the last couple of weeks.  Jeff and I are Vietnam veterans, Raja a decorated combat [...]

AHMED QURAISHI: CIA’S ROGUE “DRUG FUNDED” OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

Share“CONSPIRACY THEORY” BECOMES REALITY IN THE NEW CIA/BLACKWATER PARTNERSHIP
By Ahmed Quereshi
“When these CIA agents killed a couple of Chinese engineers back in 2004, CIA psy-ops used the incident to put the blame on Afghan Taliban, thereby creating doubts in the minds of Chinese officials that Pakistani intelligence might have had something to do with [...]

AF-PAK: Some thoughts on war on terror

With a world in the hands of folks like Bush or Obama, Gordon Brown or Tony Blair and the EU folks, Merkel and Sarrdoozie of France, anything with signs of human life and intelligence is always welcome. Italy’s prime minister spends more money on lesbian prostitutes than an American senator can steal in a lifetime. Imran Khan is a saint in comparison.

Taliban Hits 5-Star Hotel, Hostels in Downtown Kabul

Share- Bad-Suicide-Bombings: 18 Dead, 32 Wounded; Indians Targeted - ”I saw foreigners crying and shouting … It was a very bad situation inside,” said Najibullah, hotel worker. (Al Jazeera)
Juan Cole has the story. Writes Cole: “[T]he Taliban are apparently attempting to destabilize the capital and to punish foreigners working to stand up the new government (in [...]

KHALIL NOURI: AFGHANISTAN: AN INEVITABLE KARZAI DYNASTY RULING

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By: Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER FOR VETERANS TODAY
AN INEVITABLE KARZAI DYNASTY RULING
Subsequent to Hamed Karzai shamelessly stealing the Afghan re-election; he agreed that his achievements and standards would be higher – and the Obama administration vowed that he [...]

Gates Calls Europe Anti-War Mood Danger to Peace

ShareDamn Europeans blowing off NATO refuse the truth that any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Headline above is from today’s New York Times. The last 15 words of the lede are from an infamous militarist. How about we just get these guys home and give them what they [...]

Afghan Offensive ‘Aimed to Shape U.S. Opinion on War’

ShareNo doubt after chewing our troops up, the DVA will rush in to facilitate expedited delivery of benefits. Right. For those stuck on history and facts consider in a short preface: A New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (March 27, 2009) and the White House White Paper.
Therefore, the core goal of the U.S. must be to disrupt, dismantle, [...]

PEACE Democrats versus PRO-WAR Democrats

ShareIt is a breath of fresh air to read ‘on-line’ about a growing number of seriously progressive candidates challenging the politically strategic and deceitful notion of  “Let’s stay mum on Iraq and Afghanistan and the billions wasted occupying them for Mobile Oil and Boeing (among others) and maybe, just maybe, voters will not notice and [...]

Probes overlook McChrystal’s role in costly Afghan battles

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WASHINGTON — Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, kept a remote U.S. base in the country manned last year at the local governor’s request despite warnings from his field commanders that it should be closed because it was vulnerable and had no tactical or [...]

KHALIL NOURI: AFGHANISTAN: A PANDORA’S BOX FOR MARJAH & NAD-ALI

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BY KHALIL NOURI
STAFF WRITER FOR VETERANS TODAY
“We’ve got a government in a box, ready to roll in.” said triumphantly General Stanley McChrystal as the NATO operation spearheaded by British troops towards Marjah and Nad-Ali districts in Helmand Province last weekend.
It is measured to be the mother of all the tests, using millions of aid dollars [...]

GORDON DUFF: THE “DEAD PEOPLE” GAME

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FROM THE PHONY “SURGE” IN IRAQ TO NON-EXISTENT PROJECTS
 

 
KILLING AROUND THE WORLD FOR FUN AND PROFIT
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
How do we tell what is real?  Today we have a “surge” going on in Afghanistan against the Taliban.  What is real?  Some of the Taliban are “Taliban,” but most are not.  Do we know [...]

KHALIL NOURI: AFGHANISTAN: THE FLAWED OPERATION “MUSHTARAK”

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BY KHALIL NOURI STAFF WRITER FOR VETERANS TODAY
“If “Success” is the word labeled for Operation “Mushtarak” when that outcome means agony, death, disfigurement and disablement for life for mostly young men, who were children just a few short years ago, then how can the definition of winning hearts and minds  be [...]

GORDON DUFF: OUR WAR ON TERROR’S “EMPTY NET”

ShareNEARLY A DECADE LATER AND WE HAVE NOTHING
WAS THE ENTIRE “WAR ON TERROR” A RUSE?
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
It is 2010 and we know less about 9/11 each day.  One “fact” after another comes into question until there are now none remaining.  Same thing with the invasion of Iraq.  No weapons of mass destruction [...]

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