Al Qaeda has vowed revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden and it looks like they are making good on it: Pakistan’s Taliban on Friday claimed their first major attack to avenge Osama bin Laden’s death as 80 people were killed in a double suicide bombing on a paramilitary police training centre. Around 140 […]
It has become even more obvious that the GOP 2012 hopefuls only political platform is to oppose President Obama. Enter Newt Gingrich on the Libya issue. On March 7th, the presidential hopeful had this to say about Libya. Exercise a no-fly zone this evening. … We don’t need to have the United Nations. All we […]
From Jake Tapper: ABC News has learned that Richard Holbrooke, the US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has died. On Friday, Holbrooke was rushed to the hospital with a torn aorta. He went through more than 20 hours of surgery. Earlier this evening, speaking at the US State Department, President Obama sang Holbrooke’s praises […]
I been meaning to post about the whole notion the wingnuts (including Lieberman) have been pushing; that we should go to war in Syria. Let’s think about this for a minute. The war started in Afghanistan. That then pushed the terrorists in Pakistan. We are fighting some in Pakistan and now they are moving to […]
In the heart of what was once dubbed “the reddest place in America“, a school bus full of second and third graders started chanting “assassinate Obama“. Children at this age are very impressionable and I’m sure it was started by a single child, but the question needs to be asked where that child heard this. […]
The woman would be Sarah Palin and the man, well John McCain. The subject – Pakistan.
Well at least she does on Pakistan: Sarah Palin told a customer at a Philadelphia restaurant on Saturday that the United States should “absolutely” launch cross-border attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan in the event that it becomes necessary to “stop the terrorists from coming any further in,” a comment similar to the one John McCain […]
When Obama said he would go after al Qaeda in Pakistan, the right wingers went ape shit. They couldn’t believe he would do such a thing to a sovereign nation. I mean we could have seen future articles like this: U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan fired across the border into Pakistan in a strike targeting Taliban […]
There has been so much talk about Obama saying he would go into Pakistan if it meant getting al Qaeda. The right wingers are all over him on this. So why is it fine for Bush to start strikes in other countries to get al Qaeda?
Ahh yes – freedom: Pakistan has become the latest country to block access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube on the grounds that one or more videos on the site offend Islam, authorities said Monday. The Pakistani government is also asking YouTube to remove “objectionable content,” said Nabiha Mehmood, a spokeswoman for the Pakistani Telecommunications […]