Former ambassador Ronald E. Neumann says, “The argument that we could pull out of Afghanistan if Karzai doesn’t do what we say is stupid. We couldn’t get the Pakistanis to fight if we leave Afghanistan; we couldn’t accomplish what we’ve set out to do. And Karzai knows that.”
Fraudulently-elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan received an ultimatum [...]

Civilian casualty in the US war in Afghanistan hardly gets much press. In the pursuit of victory in the highly-controversial war on terror, Afghan lives are simply collateral damage. When US safety is concerned, ‘media isn’t about to focus real attention on the particular form of barbarity involved — the American air war over Afghanistan [...]

The US has been paranoid over Iran since 9/11. Exacerbating this is the fact that the Islamic republic has doggedly pursued a nuclear armament program. The US seriously regards Iran’s nuclear capability as a definite threat to US national interests. Curiously, both the Bush and Obama administrations hesitated to carry out a military strike to [...]

The Obama administration has long been pushing for the use of renewable energies to slow down the US dependence on oil. But the US recession that caused the credit freeze stalled the program, even after the Renewable Energy production and investment tax credits got a short term extension to its expiration by end of 2008. [...]

For a few months now, we have been hearing about the scenario that socialism is gradually but surely inching its way well into the social, political, and economic processes of the greatest superpower on earth, the United States of America. The federal government would have been loath to make these US businesses fail. Neither will [...]

Cuba responded positively to the U.S. proposal to reopen negotiations on Cuban immigration to the United States, halted in 2004 by President George Bush. The U.S. offer was a new gesture of openness of the Obama administration which attempts a cautious and gradual approach with the Castro regime. Cuba also accepts the U.S. proposal to establish direct mail services [...]

The Taliban in Afghanistan must be facing tremendous setbacks that they have sent feelers via intermediaries for a peace agreement. The insurgents, however, insist that any peace deal will be predicated on the US assurance of total pull-out. The US, on the other hand, will not start any peace negotiations without the prerequisite condition that [...]