Tag Archives : US war on terror

The debate over whether to close down the US detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba involves two basic questions. What happens to terrorist suspects after they leave the detention center at Guantanamo Bay? Can Gitmo’s terrorists be rehabilitated? There have been reports that answer the first question. Many of the former so-called terror [...]

George W. Bush once boasted that the US presence in Afghanistan has ‘given “freedom and democracy” to 25 million Afghans.’ To propel the war in Afghanistan, ‘Bush frightened Americans with a bogus nuclear threat: “Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears. . . . We have found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and [...]

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 [...]

Obama’s ‘war of necessity’ is waged against the Taliban that are a ‘polyglot collection of conflicting political currents whose goals are local, not universal jihad.’ The Taliban have always asserted that they do not pose any international threat. They are not even interested in having anything to do with the al-Qaeda whose desired collapse [...]

Upon assessing the remaining terrorist threat from Afghanistan, the US president’s national security adviser former Marine Gen. James Jones said, “The al-Qaida presence is very diminished. The maximum estimate is less than 100 operating in the country, no bases, no ability to launch attacks on either us or our allies.” If the US were to go by [...]