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POPSBringing Guantanamo Detainees to US I think this analysis is correct as to those we picked up in Afghanistan. As long as we stay engaged militarily in Afghanistan we can probably keep these folks wherever we like (POWs - even if we don't call them that). Once the war is over we would need to repatriate them. Of course the worst of the worst need to go on trial at the Hague - but we don't recognize the World Court.
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POPSWhat a woman can do If you look closely you will see the US flag is flying at half mast. That took a lot of work. Here is the story. – Sibyl West (via atlas shrugs)
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POPSConservative squashes freedom of speech to destroy the Green for All Movement Looks like the Bush Commission is still having a stifling effect on the First Amendment- Freedom of Speech. The question of whether or not Former President Bush and Administration "allowed 9/11" to happen is pretty much irrelevant- the information that attacks were imminent was circulating within the government and it was not acted upon. Most people have probably forgotten that because Bush launched a war on Afganistan practically the same day the news came out.
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POPSSearching for Afghanistan's Third Giant Buddha I love ancient history. No matter what our present relationship with Afghanistan, we should remember that it was considered the "cradle of civilization" and there is a wealth of history, culture, and societies.
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POPSPakistan wobbly The fighting here, as in Afghanistan, is organised by the Taliban and Al-Quaeda, but is provoked by poverty and government corruption. These problems cannot be resolved by military means, which only serve to drive more people into armed action as more civilians are killed.
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POPSIntelligence failures crippling fight against insurgents in Afghanistan, says report Counterinsurgency efforts are also shown as being at the mercy of local contacts peddling identical "junk" tips around various intelligence officials, with the effectiveness of the intelligence effort being quantified by some senior officers solely in terms of the amount of "tip money" disbursed to sources. The report describes a rigid reliance on economic, military and political progress indicators regarded by the authors and interviewees as too often lacking in real meaning. Its sources complain of commanders who have slipped into relying on "the fallacy of body counts", discredited after the war in Vietnam as a measure of success.
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POPSAfghan president Karzai demands US end civilian casulties "Our demand is that there will be no civilian casualties in Afghanistan. We cannot win the fight against terrorism with airstrikes," Karzai said. "This is my first demand of the new president of the United States - to put an end to civilian casualties."
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