Charlie Rose

Argandewal  08/05/2010 02:32 PM Report

This is only a small window of afghan community under the Taliban control area . Most of the tragedies that happen in Afghanistan are mainly caused by the Taliban, are not being broadcasted to the media. In reality, the majority of afghan people including Pashtons do not want Taliban influence, but the Taliban have taken hostage of the Afghan people especially in the southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan, according to their faith, religious and beliefs. So, if somebody stands against the Taliban; they issue an edict right away, and accuse the person of being a pagan in order to kill him. They never take care of afghan casualties including cutting noses and ears.

I agree with Mr. JOE KLEIN, that the Taliban are receiving weapons, money, training, strongholds, shelters and more from Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). Pakistan is ostensibly an ally of the United States against terrorism, but Pakistan is not an honest ally of the U.S.A, and it has frauded the U.S.A., Therefore the best solution is, to start boycotting Pakistan, and punish the ISI. I believe there will be no Taliban in the area and no more killing of NATO’s soldiers, if such an act were to be done.

robdverity  08/04/2010 06:30 PM Report

Strategic US interests? Nice rationalization. MI oligarchy guarterly reports is the real strategy. They'll gladly take on 'any' posture to support theirs, which is war-for-profit.

salgadoce  08/04/2010 01:19 AM Report

"...Time’s newsstand sales were down 34.9 percent in the last half of 2009, compared to the previous year."

i hope the cover helped stem the bleeding, Stengel.

Regarding the war: I think that, after 9 years of war, it is becoming clear what the US is doing in Afghanistan - and no, sorry, it is not to protect defenseless women from being brutalized by their husbands.

We are in Afghanistan to set up permanent bases that can be used in the event of Pakistani destabilization. We don't want the nukes in Pakistan to fall into the hands of bad people, and bases in Afghanistan are a perfect way to considerably decrease response time in the event of a 'situation.'

Afghanistan is just a strategic launching pad for any operations the US may have to launch in Pakistan in the future.

It's not about women, it's not about schools, it's not about freedom, it's not about democracy. It's about strategy; it's about being militarily proactive and preemptive in protecting US interests.

BENEZRAA  08/04/2010 12:51 AM Report

THE BLOOMBERG MOSQUE.

I propose that the Mosque to be built adjacent to Ground Zero in NYC be named the "Bloomberg Mosque". He has vociferously supported it. Of course given that Jews are considered by Islam to be pigs, dogs, and monkeys, it may offend the Muslims to name it after Mayor Bloomberg. Which doesn't mean that in the USA we cannot nickname it the "Bloomberg Mosque" regardless of whether or not it is ultimately built. (Mayor Bloomeberg, as one American Jew speaking to another, you succeed in misunderstanding the Constitution and thereby offend everyone.)

Mayor Bloomberg considers the existence of this Mosque to be a Right according to American Law. He may regard it as a Right of Free Speech. He may see the fact that Muslims too died in the Twin Towers as a justification. But, it is wrong to build any religious center of any specific faith at Ground Zero.

It would be fitting to have a Wall perhaps like the Vietnam Memorial, perhaps even with symbols depicting the faith background of each victim and excluding the perpetrators of that horrible destruction.

But to build any faith-specific house of worship of height or significant scale deliberately on, adjacent to, or near Ground Zero will necessarily offend others, most especially a Mosque, the House of the Perpetrators.

Even if as reported, 29 out of 30 supports it in whatever local survey, scientific or not, this local survey is insufficiently representative of the larger communities of the entire city, state, and country. Nine-eleven was not merely a local event to NYC. It was a local event to everyone in the USA and people came to NYC anyway they could get there to help out, even at the cost of their health or their lives. Former Mayor Giuliani had it right when he refused that $10-Million check from that Saudi Prince.

Mayor Bloomberg in this matter has no sensibility to America and the true meaning of freedom. It was from Afghanistan where in the name of Islam the same Muslim terrorists, who disfigured the young Afghan girl shown in the Newsweek photo, disfigured America at Ground Zero. Establishing a Mosque there also disfigures America. It violates any reasonable Community Standard, if that Community is not limited to a select few as a marketing tool for Bloomberg to bow down to Mecca. Shame, shame, shame....

This matter should go to Court -- ASAP..

BENEZRAA  08/04/2010 12:16 AM Report

THIS ONE PHOTO CAPTURES WHAT AT IT'S BEST THIS WAR SHOULD BE ABOUT.

We don't hear enough about about the good things that have come of this war, such as the building of schools and hospitals, greater freedom, death rates at the hands of the Taliban and Al-Quaeda at 10% of the pre-war levels. We carry remorse in our hearts for those killed or maimed by our own hands, we do not deliberately seek to disfigure the nation of Afghanistan. Even the necessary but less "noble" reasons for the war, such as needing military bases to extend our influence, such as economic interests -- even these do not mitigate the more idealistic reasons for the war. We should stay in Afghanistan as long as it takes, in what ever forms. We stayed in Europe and Europe prospered; we stayed in Japan, S. Korea, Guam, and many other places which have prospered. Fewer Americans have died during ten years of war in Afghanistan -- honorably giving their lives for the USA and for Afghanistan -- than died in any given single day during WW2. I thank them, I honor them, I respect them, I do not degrade them or fall prey to cynicism, which resounds in the media, circling to report each body count insufficient for buzzardly media hunger, not even respectful enough to play taps or to say a prayer before consuming their names and faces. There will be fewer Afghans suffering as this girl suffered, for our being there, if and only if we understand what we are truly there for, and if and only if we appreciate that such needs as military bases and economic values do not exist independently of freedom.

REMant  08/02/2010 02:09 PM Report

Societies have been stoning people, cutting off hands and fingers, etc as punishment for millennia. As Agatha Christie had Poirot say on TV recently, the people know the rules. You are arguing that these societies are inadequate and uncivilized. Good luck "winning" that war. The British tried without success. The New Testament indeed says "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," which means not what it appears to many to say, but only that one whose conscience is clear should, such as a witness, for the Old Testament says plainly in Deuteronomy 17:7 "The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst." I would suggest that if you feel so strongly about this, you and Lara Logan, too, should go and enlist. Otherwise, I'd call it yellow journalism.

robertfmorrison  08/01/2010 01:59 PM Report

i saw the mag on the newstand and decided not to buy it because i see it as a scheme to sell mags. I gave up on Time frankly, using the old ploy of using naked Africans in their mags. I am done with Time, they insult our intelligence and stoop to new lows to sell mags. No longer respectable

robdverity  07/31/2010 07:17 PM Report

This atavistic depravity is culturally ingrained, as are many heinous acts around the world - not limited to Af-Pak. To think we can salvage (or police) all such cultural brutality is a recipe for bankruptcy and ultimate depravity of our own kind - a la military suicides, multiple tours of duty, PTSD, yadda, yadda. The dismembering of soldiers filling our hospitals is too close to be as INTENTIONAL as the disfiguring of this woman. We know what causes it but we send them anyway.

This woman may be able to be 'fixed.' Not so the last - nor the first - killed in Af-Pak. Nor limbs regrown.

charlizecourriers  07/31/2010 05:31 PM Report

Obama has deliberately made a weak case for being in Afganistan so that he can leave at the politically opportune moment. Of course he backed into Afganistan so that he could rhetorically attack Bush's Iraq war when liberals thought Bush would lose; but Bush won. Now Obama is going to lose his "good" war! I believe we are now in a long, Veiled War, much like the cold war. The moment is ripe to define this struggle to moderate Muslims the world over. But it demands that real men recognize the rights of real women everywhere. We, in the West, cannot allow ourselves to be terrorized by anyone who terrorizes women anywhere, regardless of religion.