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  • Recent US led Afghan Airstrike Violate International Law

    International Law is explicit about civilian protection, including but not limited to Article 51, 52 and 57 of Protocol 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Violation of these articles are demonstrable by the recent U.S. raid on an Afghan Village as reported in early May of 2009. Article 51: Protection of the civilian population Paragraph ...
    Posted to War Stories by KCBWES on May 9, 2009

  • UN is Cover for Foreign Intrusion in Somalia

    Somalia has oil. More accurately, American firms have 'force de majeure' over Somalia oil rights since the presidency of Siad Barre. These underlying facts provide the pretext not only for the first Bush intervention supposedly to prevent mass starvation, but for the second Bush intervention by proxy of Ethiopian overthrow of the United Islamic ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on February 17, 2009

  • Israel: Accomplishing What Al Qa'eda Could Not

    By yet another massive disproportionate military assault by the world's 4th largest military against a people with no regular military, Israel is accomplishing a fete what many of America's enemies could not. See, because America under Bush's leadership has tied itself unquestionably and unwavering to Israel's every action, America is ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on January 5, 2009

  • Re: Declare war on Pakistan

    GreenwichJ: . The Pashtun up in the North West see Punjabi government in Islamabad as almost as foreign as Nato forces in Afghanistan, and will happily kill Punjabis with impunity. Not to belabour a cliche, but violence really is the only language they understand. To beat the Taliban we need to pour troops over the border, clear and burn the ...
    Posted to War Stories by Usama2 on September 23, 2008

  • The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard2 on September 19, 2008

  • Hitch, The Brits Started This Mess, Along With Reagan

    Christopher Hitchens engages in breathtaking and broad stroke, decades long perspective in cataloguing the burning of world war through the 20th Century, from the beginnings of World War One through World War Two through to the conclusion of the Cold War, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Yet he dates this Iraqi Twin War Conflict only to 2003? ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on March 25, 2008

  • Iraq: Failure, mistake, or Success?

    Much has been stated about the fact that we were wrong to enter Iraq. That success is measured by how quickly we can get out of Iraq. Consider this: Iraq is in the heart of what most extremist Muslims consider holy ground. By attacking Iraq we attacked the heart of what the extremist Muslim holds dear. They have responded in force. Millions of ...
    Posted to War Stories by Proudofoursoldiers on March 2, 2008