Exit At Any Cost?

The US's attempt to engage the Taliban is fraught with risk for Afghanistan

Exit At Any Cost?

-The Times of India, February 1, 2012

While the Taliban have agreed to hold talks with "the world" through an office in Qatar, the US, it seems, has no idea as to where the talks will lead them, as was honestly uttered by the secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

"The Obama administration is willing to hand over five Taliban commanders currently in Guantanamo Bay as a "confidence-building measure" without significant concessions in return."

How is Afghanistan going to be effected in the wake of current circumstances? Especially when Pakistan's role is an additional "dark mystery."

Newt Gingrich proposes establishing permanent moon colony in a decade

Times View - Grandiose flight of fancy
Counter View - Space is the future


-The Times of India, January 31, 2012

Misdirected ire

"Mr. Obama has to grandstand in the remaining period of his Presidency. It is, therefore, natural that hit out at the outsourcing of jobs, yet again, though this time his ire was directed mostly against manufacturing companies.

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : Misdirected ire: The President proposed that companies which outsource jobs should be denied tax benefits just as those that create them in the U.S. should be rewarded."

It can only be hoped that such populist rhetoric does not get sanctified as legislation in the run-up to the election.