Edwin Gonzalez

What is wrong with President Karzai?

Former UN envoy stated today that Afghan President Hamid Karzai maybe mentally unstable, and using illegal drugs. Isn’t to be expected that the current President of Afghanistan would have a drug problem? The most important crop in the...

Why does the US treat allies as occupied nations?

Does the United States know how to treat a friend in a proper way? The countries Germany, Japan, and South Korea are three of the examples of successful democracies. Not only have they had stable governments, they have also created...

Let's recall MLK's views not only on race, but also poverty and war

Two nights ago, I was watching a special on MSNBC called “Obama’s America” where they discussed race and politics during this past MLK day. While they discuss President Obama and how race relations may change in...

Has the CIA lost common sense?

The biggest flaw for the CIA on the war on terror has to be the lack of common sense. The CIA has always been a government organization that had a special ability in creativity. This was the same organization that...

Where's our mind?

As I write this article, I am listening to the song “Where is my mind?” by the Pixies, which many should know is famous because we here it play in the very last scene of the film &ldquo...

Obama's Oslo argument was shallow

The Speech that was given by the President in his acceptance of his Nobel Peace Prize was a very not not thought out speech. One expects that if someone were to give a speech about the necessity for war during...

Obama's change will be shot down in mountains of Afghanistan

On February 25, 1967 in Los Angeles, Martin Luther King Jr. made a famous speech in which he criticized the War in Vietnam by stating that President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society was shot down in the...

Divide and conquer

The Taliban fighting the United States military today isn’t the same united group after September 11th. It is rather a mixture of Islamic religious fanatics and Afghans involved in the Opium trade. They should play an important role...

Afghanistan is the new Vietnam (Part 2 of 2)

Another of the failures during the Vietnam war was the United States was for the continued support of weak and corrupt leaders. Some political leaders in South Vietnam were so unpopular among the people during the war, that many...

Afghanistan is the new Vietnam (Part 1 of 2)

President Obama gave a speech to schoolchildren over a week ago which came under a lot of criticism. He preached how they need to work hard in school, do problems multiple times until they learn to solve it and to...

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