Hamid Karzai declared winner of Afghan election after opponent withdrewFareedZakaria: Karzai needs to take steps to increase his legitimacyHe says the U.S. needs a Pashtun leader and should get Karzai to win back support: FareedZakaria is an author and foreign affairs analyst who hosts "FareedZakaria GPS" on CNN on Sundays at 1 and 5 p.m. ET NEW YORK (CNN)...
FareedZakaria interviews Matthew HohFareed Zacharia GPS, CNN, November 1, 2009 (At the time of posting this, the CNN embedded video above was not working. This seems to be a server problem. In the meantime you can watch the interview by following the link in the headline.) Editor’s Comment — The “valleyism” that Hoh describes contains a [...]
In an interview with CNN’s FareedZakaria on the weekend, former State Department official Matthew Hoh provides a fairly compelling account of not only why the War in Afghanistan is doomed to fail, but how the American and NATO presence in the country is actually a destabilizing influence. Somewhat related to this, Scott Taylor had [...]
By GottaLaff "We don't know why we're here" indeed: CNN's FareedZakaria Interviews State Department Official Matthew Hoh Who Resigned In Protest Over Afghanistan War - 11/01/09 Fareed is an excellent interviewer who has equally excellent guests. I am so glad Matthew Hoh was one of them. H/t: Hippie_Cyndi
Matthew Hoh, a former Marine who served in Iraq, joined FareedZakaria on his CNN show today to discuss why he felt compelled to resign his diplomatic post in Afghanistan over the war. Hoh told Zakaria that he no longer believed in the mission, and that the war was not "worth our guys dying for": If I believed that 60,000 troops in Afghanistan would defeat al Qaida somehow,...
... Maddow, E.J. Dionne and Ed Gillespie. The program starts at 9 a.m. on WESH-Channel 2.*** CNN's "FareedZakaria GPS" will look at the President Barack Obama's agenda. The guests are Peggy Noonan, Walter Isaacson, historian Robert Caro and author Nell Irvin Painter. Zakaria also interviews former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf. The program starts at 1 p.m.*** CNN's "Amanpour"...
... Dmitri Medvedev repeated this claim while being interviewed by CNN's milquetoast-in-chief, FareedZakaria, who let it pass without a word. To put it bluntly, that claim is a shameless lie... READ MORE
From HuffingtonPost The US might be in the midst of a second housing and financial bubble, according to economist and Yale Professor Robert Shiller. Shiller and Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf were interviewed by FareedZakaria Sunday. Zakaria asked Shiller and Martin to weigh in on the topic of executive pay at bailed out banks. Both agreed [...]
... the way they had for the best part of the last 2000 years.PaulNovember 4, 2009 09:02 AMSo I guess FareedZakaria of Newsweek finally got it right too in the last issue - stop hoping for a China crush, stop thinking that the Chinese can't manage their economy and stop predicting doom and gloom. Start to work together with China constructively and perhaps can even take a cue or two...
... hall who dreams of the day Jon Meacham decides to pen his biography." -- "who discusses FareedZakaria's feature on Afghanistan while waiting in line for coffee." What? No tags for female Newsweek writers, you sexist pigs? There's even a tag for a sap "who still tweets from Colbert's Iraq issue from May," and Colbert isn't even on staff. But the most sickening...
DOWNLOADS: (125) PLAYS: (291) FareedZakaria talks to former Foreign Service officer Matthew Hoh who recently resigned as a Political Officer in Afghanistan . You can watch the entire interview here . ZAKARIA: Matthew Hoh is the young Foreign Service officer who resigned this week from his post in Afghanistan. He joins me now. Matthew, I'm going to just start by reading a bit...
The US might be in the midst of a second housing and financial bubble, according to economist and Yale Professor Robert Shiller. Shiller and Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf were interviewed by FareedZakaria Sunday. Zakaria asked Shiller and Martin to weigh in on the topic of executive pay at bailed out banks. Both agreed that they were "annoyed" and "irritated"...
This morning on CNN FareedZakaria aired an interview with Matthew Hoh, the first U.S. official to resign in protest over the Afghan war. In his eloquent letter of resignation (PDF), he wrote: I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures of resources in support [...]