Tag Archives: al Qaeda
1. 8 Years since the U.S. took on the Taliban – Eight years ago today the United States launched air strikes against targets in Afghanistan. President Obama is currently facing one of the biggest Foreign Policy decisions in the last decade, and it can be summed up in two words: “Now what?”
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2. Joe [...]
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U.N. meeting on Climate Change
1. U.N. Climate Change Meeting Looks to Pick up the Pace – Is the clock really ticking? How can the world’s governments move faster? Are we really at a tipping point? Is there enough data? How can we overcome the economic impact? How much is this going to cost? How much will it cost if [...]
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Torture produced faulty Iraq / Al Qaeda link?
1. Maybe Torture Wasn’t the last Resort - And just as bad if not worse: “Interrogators employed the techniques, which are notorious for producing bad intelligence, to get detainees to make statements linking Iraq and al-Qaida.” So if Mr. Cheney’s justification for water-boarding is that it gave us intelligence that prevented another 9/11 style attack, [...]
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Newsflash: American Cars aren’t awful
1. So Maybe American Cars don’t stink? – Jim Harbour explained on NPR this morning that the Big Three U.S. Automakers are now cranking out cars that are just as “good” as Toyotas, Hondas, and Nissans. Or as he puts it, Niss-ans. But yeah, good luck changing the public perception of American Automobiles. He also [...]
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Assassination in Islamabad