Salameh Nematt

Salameh Nematt is an international writer for The Daily Beast. He is the former Washington bureau chief for the international Arab daily Al Hayat, where he reported on US foreign policy, the war in Iraq, and the US drive for democratization in the broader Middle East. He has also written extensively on regional and global energy issues and their political implications.

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You should read Fouad Ajami's editorial in The Wall Street Journal published on the anniversary of 9/11. It was a counterintuitive reminder that it was Arabs in Afghanistan and not Afghanis who plotted and attacked America on 9/11. Ajami unravels the concept of "war of necessity" in Afghanistan as opposed to a "war of choice" in Iraq, and demonstrates how European and other NATO allies are as hesitant and unwilling to help Obama in Afghanistan as they were hesitant and unwilling to help Bush in Iraq.

11:13 pm, Sep 13, 2009

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robwriter

Terrorist attacks have been planned in Germany. We didn't invade Germany. Terrorist attacks have been planned in the UK. We didn't invade them either. This whole steaming pile of shit about Afghanistan being the frontline of the war on terror is so loony it makes me want to laugh, scream, and run naked down the street. To tell the truth, Afghanistan isn't even a country. It's a line drawn around a bunch of Muslim tribes. Because the average American's memory is shorter than his dick, it has been forgotten that rightwingers in the US used the CIA to turn Afghanistan into the USSR's Vietnam. The US back channeled arms through Pakistan to the "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan, the same "freedom fighters" whose younger brothers and kids are now busy killing US soldiers. Of course Europe wants nothing to do with this Made in the USA clusterfuck. They read history over there. They have intelligence services that gather intelligence. Their political systems, whatever their shortcomings, aren't games of Cowboys and Idiots.

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3:38 pm, Sep 14, 2009

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