To those who describe the act of killing American soldiers as brutal, we say: was the treatment and rape of men, women and children in Abu Ghraib humane?
If Obama does not want to make Afghanistan the Vietnam of his administration, he should cede power in Afghanistan to the Taliban movement as soon as possible.
It is sure that this prize, the Nobel Peace Prize, has lost a great deal of its value and importance as a result of the hasty decision to award it to the U.S. president who’s still in the first stages of his presidency, in which his domestic and foreign policies are yet to crystallize.
Specialists in Western governments excel in mimicking such deliberately deceptive tactics, which manifests itself most clearly as they strangle the truth and obfuscate bad news emerging from the region. This tactic was not successful in Iraq and is not expected to succeed in Afghanistan.