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 [...]

By James Delingpole Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, and I’m sorry to repeat such a hoary cliche’, but the reason it’s so hoary is it’s true. There’s barely a chap I know who doesn’t wonder how he’d fare if forced to undergo the ultimate male test – combat. [...]

By Chris Floyd Don’t tell Obama and McCain, but the war they are both counting on to make their bones as commander-in-chief — the “good war” in Afghanistan, which both men have pledged to expand — is already lost. Their joint strategy of pouring more troops, tanks, missiles and planes into the roaring fire — [...]

Welcome to the Great Game with the same battlefield but different protagonists, different battle cries and different weapon yields. By Anwaar Hussain On 26th August 2008, barely two weeks back, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kiyani met with Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen aboard USS Abraham Lincoln [...]

By Angie Riedel It is time to get past the ‘death and violence is the answer’ mentality. We can not afford to let it continue. The US government now confronts every minor inconvenience with brutality and force. With lies. With tricks. With deceit. With unrivaled hypocrisy. It speaks a scripted and rehearsed dialog of illogic [...]

Learning the Wrong Lessons from the Bush Era By Andrew Bacevich To appreciate the full extent of the military crisis into which the United States has been plunged requires understanding what the Iraq War and, to a lesser extent, the Afghan War have to teach. These two conflicts, along with the attacks of September 11, [...]

1. The Truth Commission : By Nicholas D. Kristof : The NYT 2. War on Iran: The Perfect Storm From Hell‏ : By Timothy Alexander, Rense.com 3. Anxious in America : By Thomas L. Friedman : The NYT 4. America, its Time for some Serious Wakeup Calls : By D.L. Dewey, Dewey’s World 5. Why [...]