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What Are We Fighting For In Afghanistan?

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould | Posted 12.04.2009 | World

Read More: Targeted Assassinations, Al Qaeda, Predator Drones, Blackwater Crimes, Geostrategic Positioning, General Stanley McChrystal, Soviet Union, Manichean, World News
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

For 60 years the United States played both Pakistan and Afghanistan against each other in a Manichean, dualist game of superpower politics with little regard for the consequences.

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Why Military Dreams Fail -- and Why It Doesn't Matter

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Defense, US Drone Missiles, Predator Drones, Drones, Afghanistan War, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Politics News
Tom Engelhardt

Robot war. It just couldn't be cooler, could it? Especially if the only blood you spill is the other guy's, since our "pilots" are flying those planes from thousands of miles away. So why am I not excited?

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Predator Drone Strikes Increasing, Carrying Out Operations For Pakistan

Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reaper-Drones, New America Foundation, Central Intelligence Agency, The New Yorker, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Obama Administration, Predator, Zardari, New Yorker, Cia, Jane Mayer, Pakistani Government, Predator Drones, Politics News

The Obama Administration has increased the scope of the U.S. government's two drone programs, writes Jane Mayer in an article in the New Yorker. "Acc...

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On the Obama Peace Prize

Reverend Billy | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Predator Drones, Peace, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, President-Obama-Nobel, President Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Green News
Reverend Billy

I never thought of Peace as a word that was moveable.

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Our Suicide Bombers: Thoughts on Western Jihad

John Feffer | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Terrorists, Suicide Bombers, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Suicide Bomber, Iraq Occupation, Drones, Jihad, Occupation, Jihadism, Israel, Predator Drones, Politics News
John Feffer

We have our suicide bombers -- we call them heroes. We have our culture of indoctrination -- we call it basic training. We kill civilians -- we call it collateral damage.

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Drone Attacks: Bombs in The Air Versus Boots on The Ground

Kalsoom Lakhani | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Spotlight on Pakistan, Pakistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus, Pakistan Drone Attacks, US-Pakistan Relations, Predator Drones, Drones, South Waziristan, Reaper Drones, Al Qaeda, World News
Kalsoom Lakhani

If the strategic costs outweigh the tactical benefits of using drones, why does the US continue to champion such a policy? The answer seems to be: because it is their best worst option.

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Pakistan Drone Attack Secrecy Hides Abuses

Inter Press Service | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: US Drone Missiles, Pakistan Drones, Pakistan Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Air Force Drones, Drones, Drone Attacks, Cia, Pakistan Drone Attacks, US-Pakistan Relations, Predator Drones, Cia Drone Attacks, Advocacy, Inter Press Service, World News

By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's refusal to share with other agencies even ...

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Pakistan Drone Attacks Guided By Planted 'Chips'

Wired | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaeda, US Drone Missiles, Cia, Pakistan Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Taliban, Air Force Drones, Drone, Al Qaeda, CIA Drone Chips, Al Qaida, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Swat Valley, Predator Drones, Advocacy, World News

It sounds like a tinfoil hat nightmare, come to life: tiny electronic homing beacons, guiding CIA killer drones to their targets. But local residents ...

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The March of Folly, Continued

Norman Solomon | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cognitive Dissonance, Barbara Tuchman, Predator Drones, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Vietnam, John Kennedy, Pakistan, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, The March of Folly, Baghdad-Iraq, Iraq, Fallujah-Iraq, Politics News
Norman Solomon

Obama can make many wise comments about past international affairs while proceeding with actual policies largely unfettered by the wisdom.

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The Perils of Predator Drones in Pakistan

ZP Heller | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

Read More: Asif Ali Zardari, Rethink Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Predator Drones, Barack Obama, Pakistan, World News
ZP Heller

As President Obama prepares to meet with Pakistani President Asif Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai tomorrow, the question becomes what the U.S. can do to prevent all-out war in Pakistan.

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