Al Jazeera: Taliban fighters in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan say they have pulled out of a peace deal with the Pakistan government… “This accord is being scrapped because of Pakistan’s failure to stop the American drone attacks in North and South Waziristan,” Ahmadullah Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, told the Associated Press by telephone. …The [...]
Archive for July 1, 2009
From a book review by Halden: The global ambitions, both political and economic, which Bush awkwardly stumbled after through chicanery and military adventurism have a far more likely chance of being actualized under the rule of an intelligent, polished, and internationally embraced figure like President Obama. It may well be that in a post-Bush age, [...]
