As the Peace Laureate prepares to undertake a 5th war, let's check in and see how the current four are going.
WAR #1: IRAQ
Stifled by tight security but met with far less bloodshed than the week before, thousands of people swarmed to protests Friday across Iraq to call for better public services and more accountable politicians.
The demonstrations went ahead despite curfews and bans on vehicle movement in major cities such as Baghdad, the capital, and Basra. But the gatherings were smaller than similar rallies the previous week, which saw more than a dozen people killed in clashes with security forces.
http://articles.latimes.com/...
WAR #2: AFGHANISTAN
The Obama administration has decided to begin publicly walking away from what it once touted as key deadlines in the war in Afghanistan in an effort to de-emphasize President Barack Obama’s pledge that he’d begin withdrawing U.S. forces in July 2011...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/...
There is ample evidence of the continuing ability of insurgents to operate despite the surge of US troops into Afghanistan. There were 711 US armed forces personnel killed in Afghanistan in 2010, a large increase over the 521 killed the year before. Opponents of the US occupation are still able to lay roadside bombs across much of the country, while US commanders have been forced to abandon once-held areas in order to focus on centers of opposition like Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second city.
http://www.wsws.org/...
Afghan government officials alleged Sunday that a U.S. military operation in the remote mountains of northeastern Afghanistan killed 65 innocent people, including 22 women and more than 30 children, the most serious allegation of civilian casualties in months.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
WAR #3: PAKISTAN
Several missiles fired from American drone aircraft on Thursday struck a meeting of local people in northwest Pakistan who had gathered with Taliban mediators to settle a dispute over a chromite mine. The attack, a Pakistani intelligence official said, killed 26 of 32 people present, some of them Taliban fighters, but the majority elders and local people not attached to the militants. ...
The Pakistani military chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, issued an unusual and unusually strong condemnation of the attack. “It is highly regrettable that a jirga of peaceful citizens, including elders of the area, was carelessly and callously targeted with complete disregard to human life,” the statement said.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Supporters of Pakistan's religious and political party Jamaat-e-Islami shout slogans as they take part in a protest against the release of CIA contractor Raymond Davis in Karachi on March 16. Davis was acquitted of two counts of murder Wednesday after 'blood money' was paid to the families of the two men he shot dead.
http://www.csmonitor.com/...
WAR #4: YEMEN
President Ali Abdullah Saleh claimed raids were conducted by Yemen's military when they were in fact carried out by the US, according to the cables.
The files also reveal that Mr Saleh rejected an offer to deploy US ground forces in Yemen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...
Yemeni troops used rockets and machine guns to attack against demonstrators in the north of the country on Friday, killing four and injuring nine. ...
America announced last month that it would double to $75 million to double the size of a special Yemeni counter-terrorism unit that has been involved in suppressing the demonstrations.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...
But I'm sure Libya will be totally different.
This time we know what we're doing.