The nuclear weapons need to be disassembled.
Bush lost the region to violence, corruption and drugs by fighting an illegal war in Iraq.
The USA wants a second chance in the region. It is too late. They wanted a second chance in Vietnam, too.
Janet Napolitano has been 'right on the money' every step of the way. Europe needs a strategy to stop movement from the region into their countries. That is GROSSLY different than war and the fact of the matter is, the war is complicating their security rather than securing it.
Get out of Afghanistan and get out of Iraq, we do not have trustworthy leadership in our military. They are puppets to their mistakes and lie to hide them.
Pakistan court starts hearing case against amnesty (click title to entry - thank you)
December 07, 2009 04:35 EST
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A suicide bomber has struck the oft-battered city of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan, killing at least six people and wounding 49.
The latest attack comes as Pakistan's Supreme Court began hearing a case against an amnesty that had protected President Asif Ali Zardari and many key allies from graft charges.
The court's scrutiny of the amnesty could lead to legal challenges to the Pakistani president's rule just as the Obama administration needs stability in Islamabad to help crack down on those militants.
A Pakistani army offensive against the Taliban near the Afghan border has spurred a wave of retaliatory attacks throughout Pakistan, including in Peshawar, the capital of the northwest.
Today's strike occurred outside a building housing lower level courts where the bomber blew himself up when he was stopped by a security guard and a police officer.
Afghaninstan is the Eighth Poorest Nation in the World - the issue is POVERTY and not the people. The problem is in the Pentagon. They have poor intelligence that results in forever wars among people that have no way to fight back while the Pentagon's excuse is NATION building rather than victory!
No more Wars, Bring the troops home NOW !
1 Timor-Leste South-East Asia
2 Malawi Eastern Africa
3 Somalia Eastern Africa
4 Democratic Republic of the Congo Middle
5 Tanzania Eastern Africa
6 Yemen Middle East
7 Burundi Eastern Africa
8 Afghanistan Central Asia
The White House has authorized an expansion of the C.I.A.’s drone program in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas (click here), officials said this week, to parallel the president’s decision, announced Tuesday, to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. American officials are talking with Pakistan about the possibility of striking in Baluchistan for the first time — a controversial move since it is outside the tribal areas — because that is where Afghan Taliban leaders are believed to hide.
By increasing covert pressure on Al Qaeda and its allies in Pakistan, while ground forces push back the Taliban’s advances in Afghanistan, American officials hope to eliminate any haven for militants in the region.
