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Americans are angry and frustrated!?!
Jan 21st
A day after completing a year in White House, US President Barack Obama feels that he has neglected his direct connect with the American people who he says are “angry and frustrated”. As he absorbed a stinging blow from the voters, Obama admitted that his getting embroiled in tackling a flurry of crises had weakened his bond with the people.
And this is the reason, Obama feels for the surprise victory of a Republican candidate to a Senate seat held for almost five decades by Edward Kennedy, a Democrat.
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President Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
Dec 10th
U.S. President Barack Obama has accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize with the acknowledgment that he is only at the beginning of his “labors on the world stage.”
At the awards ceremony Thursday in Oslo, Norway, Mr. Obama said his “accomplishments are slight” compared to other Nobel laureates such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela. He said activists who have been “jailed and beaten in the pursuit of justice” or serve as humanitarians around the world are far more deserving of the honor.
The first-year U.S. president also acknowledged the irony of accepting the Nobel Peace Prize as he prepares to send an additional 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan. He told the gathered dignitaries the war against the Taliban and al Qaida terrorist network was a conflict the U.S. did not seek – a reference to the response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and near Washington, D.C.
Bin Laden is key to al-Qaeda defeat
Dec 9th
The top US commander in Afghanistan has said al-Qaeda will not be defeated unless its leader, Osama Bin Laden, is captured or killed. Testifying to the US Congress, Gen Stanley McChrystal said Bin Laden had become an “iconic figure”.
He said President Barack Obama’s deployment of 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan meant success was possible. But he said the mission was “undeniably difficult” and the next 18 months would be crucial. “I don’t think that we can finally defeat al-Qaeda until he’s captured or killed, I believe he is an iconic figure at this point, whose survival emboldens al-Qaeda as a franchising organisation across the world.” said Gen McChrystal.
The general said that killing or capturing Bin Laden would not spell the end of al-Qaeda, but that the movement could not be eradicated while Bin Laden remained at large. The militant leader is believed to be living in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates said last week that officials have had no reliable information on Bin Laden’s whereabouts for “years”. ( Courtesy: BBC.com)
Military families speak out about Obama
Dec 2nd
| It is hard for every military family, whose soldier is playing hide n seek with death every moment at Afghanistan. President Obama announced to send another 35,000 troop to Afghanistan, which got a mix review from military families. |
Obama Vs Zardari on Terror
Dec 1st
Pakistan is playing safe when it comes to terror and US. On the same issue, US president Mr. Barack Obama wrote a letter to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, saying – ” The US would no longer tolerate Islamabad’s reluctance to act against Lashkar-e-Taiba and other jihadi groups. ” According to a report in , Obama also warned Pakistan that its use of insurgent groups for policy goals “cannot continue” and called for closer collaboration against all extremist groups.
According to the Post report, US national security advisor Jim Jones recently travelled to Pakistan to deliver a message – ” if Pakistan cannot deliver, the United States may be impelled to use any means at its disposal to rout insurgents based along Pakistan’s western and southern borders with Afghanistan”.
President Barack Obama declared Tuesday, announcing he was ready to spell out war plans virtually sure to include tens of thousands more U.S. troops. It is still in America’s vital national interest to “dismantle and destroy” al-Qaida terrorists and extremist allies. “I intend to finish the job.” he said. He later said, “I can tell you, as I’ve said before, that it is in our strategic interest, in our national security interest to make sure that al-Qaida and its extremist allies cannot operate effectively.We are going to dismantle and degrade their capabilities and ultimately dismantle and destroy their networks. And Afghanistan’s stability is important to that process.”
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