Musings of a modern guy

In a retraction, the US military in Iraq announced that 3 people shot in an incident in June (June 25th) were actually innocent, and it was an accidental shooting of the car by soldiers who stated that the occupants of the car in the high security zone of Baghdad Airport did not acknowledge calls for […]

Now that he has sewn up the Democratic Presidential nomination, it is time for Obama to reduce the gap between himself and McCain over national security grasp and credentials. McCain is a former military man with a distinguished service record, and has served a 5 year prisoner of war imprisonment. He has been involved in […]

Imagine a team in Iraq comprising of members from all 3 main sections, Shia, Sunni and the Kurds. Sounds difficult to achieve in the kind of sectarian conflicts ongoing in Iraq today, with death squads, bombings, and so on; but was possible. An Iraqi football team, in a keenly contested final in Indonesia won the […]

The Democrats have long chafed at President Bush’s strategy on Iraq. For a long time, the Democrats were in a minority, and what they said or what they wanted did not make much difference in politics. But as the war lingered on, with no seemingly achievable solution, and people started getting frustrated with the continuing […]

This must be the greatest failure of President Bush’s watch. The most powerful man of the world, with an incredibly powerful military and an awesome economic backing behind him, has been unable to break an organization composed of some people. It becomes even more incredulous when you start wondering as to how the Government of […]

In a spirit of bluster that was more make-believe that being based on reality, the Iraqi Prime Minister and his advisers claimed that Iraq has the capability to bring peace and calm on its own based on its own capable security forces (army and police). This is pure bull. The security forces that they have […]