What is United States President Barack Obama’s new National Security Adviser to make of the latest news from AfPak, asks Eric Walberg
16/10/10--In the past 10 days, 150 NATO-bound oil tankers were torched in Pakistan, mostly by Taliban but some apparently by their own drivers, who siphoned and sold the fuel and then destroyed the evidence of their theft. Win-win for locals, none of whom are naive enough to believe killing more of their brothers is a good idea. 500 oil tankers and containers that left Port Qasim in Karachi for Kandahar did not even reach the AfPak border. This, while the key Khyber Pass was closed, holding up thousands of supply trucks that did make it intact, after Pakistan shut the border in protest against the almost daily, illegal and unsanctioned US air strikes that have killed 1800 Pakistani civilians.
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Obama/Donilon: Staring down the generals
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Israel in America: Obama's dance of death
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
What are we to make of the latest changes in Obama's entourage, ponders Eric Walberg
Obama has just lost his close friend and chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who is making the unusual transition from national to municipal politics.He is also losing his closest adviser David Axelrod (pragmatist Emanuel described their difference as prose versus poetry) and his mentor and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers.
Obama has just lost his close friend and chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who is making the unusual transition from national to municipal politics.He is also losing his closest adviser David Axelrod (pragmatist Emanuel described their difference as prose versus poetry) and his mentor and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers.
China-US: Wisdom not gunboats
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
A new US military doctrine, war games, and ASEAN troops in Afghanistan have stirred up an oriental hornet's nest, says Eric Walberg
"From a historical perspective, the US has continuously found enemies and waged wars. Without enemies the US cannot hold the will of the whole nation," concluded Chinese Air Force Colonel Dai Xu, after perusing the 2010 US defense report. He points to the attempt to turn the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) into an Asian NATO -- Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand already have troops in Afghanistan, and the ongoing military games in the South China Sea with Vietnam and in the Yellow Sea with Korea -- employing enough firepower for a full-scale war.
British election: Everyone lost
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
The hung parliament will be a huge hangover, warns Eric Walberg
Britain is poised for a long period of political instability as it enters its first coalition government since WWII, when the wartime unity government was led by Winston Churchill with Labour in tow. There was an almost identical situation to the current hung parliament in February 1974, when the Conservatives tried to form a coalition with the Liberal Party, but balked at the demand for electoral reform to allow proportional representation, and Labour was able to cobble together enough votes to survive a few months and win a snap election that year, as it turned out, the last Labour government before the advent of Thatcher.
NATO summit: ‘Not rational enough’
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
So NATO’s head berates its foes, as the alliance pursues its own version of rationality, oblivious to world pleas for disarmament or its alarming failure in Afghanistan, says Eric Walberg
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