The big news is that the pressure is on for President Obama to reverse himself and start looking into the allegations of law breaking by the Bush administration: Leading Democrats on Sunday demanded investigations of how a highly classified counterterrorism program was kept secret from the Congressional leadership on the orders of Vice President Dick […]
Timeline fever is catching on, and now Afghanistan has caught it: President Hamid Karzai demanded at a meeting with a UN Security Council team Tuesday that the international community set a “timeline” for ending military intervention in Afghanistan, his office said. Karzai told a delegation from the Council that his country needed to know how […]
I am glad to see how much the Middle East is loving us. We “liberated” Afghanistan from the Taliban and this is how we are thanked: A deadly traffic accident Monday involving U.S. troops sparked the worst rioting in the Afghan capital since the fall of the Taliban regime, with hundreds of protesters looting shops […]