After initial excitement, this moment of unity in the capture & killing of Osama bin Ladin registered as a momentary blip in Global Markets as investors worry about the immediate risk of a terrorist backlash and, more generally, the malaise of the US economy. Yet bin Laden’s death has the potential to become a focal point for the country, and for President Barack Obama in particular, if the spirit of unity & partisan cooperation can be translated into broad-based, bipartisan progress on economic issues such as re-employment, infrastructure investments, increased corporate spending of their HUGE profit margins, decreasing the Federal deficit & the National Debt levels that are central to the long-term economic health & prosperity of the nation, and the world.
Unemployment remains stubbornly high.
Rashid, a highly touted Pakistani journalist, begins the final chapter of his 2000 ‘Taliban’ by calling the country one of world’s ‘orphaned conflict’s’. The country would quickly change from being orphaned to a month after 9/11 being the center of global politics, as the United States uprooted the Taliban government and sent them packing, unfortunately […]
Al Qaeda’s second in command Ayman al-Zawahri spoke out yesterday on an Internet recording about President Obama and his Afghan-Pakistan strategy. I guess we should pay attention whenever a top AQ leader talks as the United States, Afghanistan, and Pakistan would not be in the position they are now in without their existence. It almost […]
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