Showing posts with label US. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US. Show all posts

Friday, December 16, 2011

The US walks out of Iraq !

The US government announces the withdrawal of the last of its troops yesterday, in a dramatic event. In what the US considers a great achievement, there lies a bitter fact. "Reviving" Iraq cost not just the Iraqis but also a whole lot American soldiers' lives. Is the result worth the loss humanity has suffered? That's one question that can never be answered by  any President of the United States.

U.S. Marks End to 9-Year War, Leaving an Uncertain Iraq
At Iraq War’s End, Wounds Are Still Fresh for Falluja
Junkyard Gives Up Secret Accounts of Massacre in Iraq
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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Obama's twitter crisis

  With an idea of taking what might be the most important situation to handle in his whole tenure as the president directly to the people, the President of the US requested support for him through twitter. His tweet read "Tweet at your Republican legislators and urge them to support a bipartisan compromise to the debt ceiling". This move seemed to backfire at him, with as many as 40000 tweeters 'unfollowed' him!

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The US-Pak Relationship


    With the announcement of cut in the military finance of up to $800 million to Pakistan by the Unites States government, the relationship between the two nations nosedives deeper. Also, sources from within the the Pakistan government have told news sources that the US will have lesser support in its efforts against terrorist, especially Al-Qaeda.

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