Source: Guardian
‘Fiasco’, ‘The Forever War’, ‘Descent into Chaos’ - the titles of recent books capture the consensus on the US entanglement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pankaj Mishra asks whether a new president will change the crazy logic of American militarism
We are winning in Iraq, John McCain declared in the presidential debate last week, “and we […]

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Source: New York Times
For months, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama have argued over whether Iraq was the right war to fight in 2003. On Friday night they delved for the first time into the problems one of them will face on Jan. 20: Whether America has to be ready to carry out military action […]

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Source: Newsweek
By Michael Hirsh
As U.S.-Pakistani tensions mount, Petraeus steps in.
They seem an odd couple: the general who engineered President Bush’s surge in Iraq, and the presidential candidate who has promised to undo it. But look again. Gen. David Petraeus’s broad new agenda as the likely next commander of Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees U.S. forces […]

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Source: Reuters Blog
The United States, beginning with President George W. Bush himself, has this past two weeks trained its crosshairs on Pakistan, warning that another Sept. 11, if it were to happen, would most likely not be plotted out of Iraq, Afghanistan or even Iran, but Pakistan.
Like the steady drumbeat that has often preceded major […]

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He also called on Washington to change its standpoint towards Iran and said it had to understand that the Iraqi people did not like America.

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Source: New Statesman
The west has often regarded the civilian dimension of Pakistani politics as a hindrance to its security priorities
Over the past decade one country has caused more alarm in the west than any other over its weapons of mass destruction. It is neither North Korea, nor Iraq, nor even Iran. Pakistan is the concern.

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Source: china view
WASHINGTON, (Xinhua) — The U.S. troops in Iraq should be redeployed to Pakistan and Afghanistan to focus on fighting terrorist threats there, a U.S. lawmaker said on Saturday.
The House Representative from New York, Kirsten Gillibrand, said in her weekly Democratic radio address that the Democrat-dominated Congress is challenging President George W. Bush […]

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