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McCain Does Believe What Charlie Black Said?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Foreign Policy, History, McCain, Pakistan, Terrorism

Yesterday, McCain denounced Black’s assertions that a terrorist attack would help his campaign, but here’s what he said right after the Bhutto assassination last year…
McCain called Bhutto’s death “a great tragedy. When something like this happens, you try to figure out who are the winners and the losers. It seems to me that the winners [...]

June 24th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Top McCain Adviser Says Terror Attack Would Help

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Dumb Things Said By Smart People, McCain, Pakistan, Republicans, Terrorism, The World

What in the world was Charlie Black thinking? Because not only did he suggest the contents of the title, but he also talked about an assassination helping McCain’s cause too?
Big time error here…
Charlie Black, an adviser already in the spotlight for his past lobbying work, is quoted in the upcoming July 7 edition of Fortune [...]

June 23rd, 2008 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

More US Forces Killed In Afghanistan Last Month Than Iraq

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Afghanistan, Bush, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Military, Pakistan, Terrorism, The War On Terrorism, The World, al Qaeda

And considering we have about 26,000 troops in Afghanistan, the overall percentage proves that Afghanistan has been a much, much deadlier place for quite some time.
Not surprisingly, I found this news in a story about an attack by the Taliban that freed hundreds of inmates from an Afghan prison:
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - U.S. and NATO troops [...]

June 14th, 2008 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

Iraq Is Won. Time To Shift Back To Afghanistan.

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Afghanistan, Biden, Iran, Iraq, Military, Pakistan, Terrorism, The War On Terrorism, The World, Video, War, al Qaeda

An interesting moment from yesterday’s testimony with Biden, Petraeus and Crocker.

And while some on the left and the right have been trying to make hay out of this, the segment does have my wondering why, if our highest priority targets are in Afghanistan, that we’re not trying to destroy them.
I understand we think we [...]

April 9th, 2008 | Permalink| 3 Comments »

Benazir Bhutto Killed

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Pakistan, The War On Terrorism, The World

What an extremely sad day.
From CNN:
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has died after a suicide bombing that killed at least 14 of her supporters, ex-government spokesman Tariq Azim Khan and Pakistan’s primary television networks said.
Bhutto suffered bullet wounds in the aftermath of the bomb attack, TV networks report.
Video of [...]

December 27th, 2007 | Permalink| 22 Comments »