Archive for the 'Afghanistan' Category

06 May 2011

The Bin Laden Killing—A Masterstroke

By Anwaar Hussain A blizzard of lies indeed flies every which way in the aftermath of Abbottabad strike. Lies have surely been told before, during and after the operation. The fact, however, stays that Bin Laden is dead. In a singularly unmatched stunt, in one clean, surgical and slashing strike, Bin Laden is taken out [...]

30 Nov 2010

Of Wikileaks, Vision and Bifocals

By Anwaar Hussain The US says that Wikileaks disclosures are a crime. Since when has disclosure of a crime become a crime, wasn’t explained. Apart from the fact that the reaction of the United States’ Government borders on the ridiculous, it does remind one of that famous quote from the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and [...]

18 Oct 2010

Afghanistan: The Principles of Defeat

By Anwaar Hussain America’s exit from Afghanistan is around the corner. Anyone with his ear to the ground and an eye cocked on the horizon can tell as much. As American military philosophers will be averse to identify the causes of the rout for some time yet, this scribe helps them in advance. For any [...]

18 Aug 2010

Scream!!!

Read this New York Times report. Then this Truth Spring story. Then compare the truth with the fiction.

27 Jul 2010

Feminist Marine Gets His Kicks Killing Male Chauvinists in Afghanistan

By Fred Reed I find a loutish American general, James Mattis, martial feminist, talking about the fun he has killing Afghans. Yes, fun, wheeee-oooo! and ooo-rah! too. He says, “You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil,” adding “guys like that ain’t got [...]

01 Jul 2010

My Name is Ozymandias, King of Kings

By Anwaar Hussain While the American colonial goliath lies wheezing at the callused feet of its adversaries in Afghanistan, its commander General Stanley McChrystal has been fired by President Obama for his indiscrete comments to the media. Not many tears are being shed on the general’s fall. Almost everyone who is any one in Washington [...]

16 Jun 2010

But the Devil Sends the Cooks

By Anwaar Hussain Despite incessant interludes of chaos, Afghanistan was not always this rough, blood splattered land of wild hordes charging their steeds in its desolate stretches. When Europe was backwards, impoverished and irrelevant territory, the region today called Central Asia, with Afghanistan at its southern tip and ancient trade routes interweaving it, was a [...]

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