Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 1, 2010
Leaving Iraq after seven years…
In a televised address from the Oval Office, President Obama declared last evening an end to the seven-year Iraq war in a rather gloomy speech befitting a grim and violent war. He said that the United states had met its responsibility towards Iraq and that now it was time to turn to problems at home. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 8, 2010
Was Helen Thomas gagged?
Helen Thomas was the longest serving member of the White House press corps. She had reported from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for 57 years, going back to the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower. Sadly and after remarks made during a videotaped interview for a website called rabbilive.com., Ms Thomas announced she was retiring from Hearst Newspapers where she was a columnist. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
March 25, 2010
Blair under citizen’s arrest
This past Monday while the former UK prime minister Tony Blair was visiting the European Parliament for a hearing on the Israeli-Palestinians conflict, he had an unexpected surprise. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 10, 2010
And now Yemen?
After the Christmas day failed terrorist attempt by a Nigerian who allegedly was trained in Yemen by al-Qaeda, talk about going against the terrorists in Yemen was something that many thought could happen. To the point that the Yemeni government had to warn Washington to learn the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
December 2, 2009
30,000 more troops to Afghanistan
The so long awaited decision of Obama on Afghanistan reached us last night from the Military Academy of West Point. While an unemotional gray sea of cadets looked at their commander-in-chief, they and the rest of the world watching heard those words we more or less expected: an additional 30,000 US soldiers were to march into Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 26, 2009
Iran’s nuclear program
Nobody is sure yet of how much was accomplished at the G20 meeting mostly because the most talked about event, one that was probably orchestrated behind the scenes but not expected to be presented, was the dramatic disclosure Friday made by Obama, flanked by Brown and Sarkozy, the leaders of Britain and France, of the existence of a covert Iranian nuclear enrichment site. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 5, 2009
From Saudi Arabia to the Normandy Beaches
From the Arab world to the Normandy beaches in France with a short stop over in Germany, president Obama is trying to use his travels to obtain understanding for the US among the Muslims, maybe help from his European allies for the Afghanistan war and the closing of Guantanamo. Read the rest of this entry »
