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Afghan strategy switch betrays War Crisis

Barack Obama has sacked his commander in Afghanistan. But the real worry is that the war is being lost National security adviser of the world’s greatest superpower is a “clown”, its vice-president a nobody and its president “uncomfortable and intimidated”. With those words the officers around General Stanley McChrystal, the American commander in Afghanistan, engulfed…

The Iraqi oil conundrum

STORY HIGHLIGHTS : How the mighty have fallen. Just a few years ago, an overconfident Bush administration expected to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, pacify the country, install a compliant client government, privatize the economy, and establish Iraq as the political and military headquarters for a dominating US presence in the Middle East. These successes…