Inside World Politics

The end of the US military’s operations in Iraq is very welcome in the US as well as in the country where many see them still as occupiers. The war that couldn’t be won is now in the hands of the Iraqui people themselves who have to stand up and rebuild their country but for the many fighting women and men in the country, it’s off the battlefield in one country and back into another war. Afghanistan was first to be invaded by the US military who deplored the rule of the Taliban they say is responsible for the attacks in the US, but political analysts and even some military experts now argue that the link was so poorly made that they say there was no ever link except for sporradic calls and other intelligence information that couldn’t be substantiated today. US policy towards such countries are indeed shifting, mainly due ot rising costs, American Taxpayer dollars that are now harder to come by in today’s recession. The military may have saved a lot of lives and money by pulling out of Iraq, but jumping right back into another battle may soon sway more minds as to the true purpose of these wars, wars that many are now seeing as mistakes, paid with the lives of coalition forces from which a large part are Americans.

Many think of Tibet simply as the picturesque area that lures tourists, But the territory claimed by Tibetan activists designated in 1965 as the Tibet Autonomous Region is more than twice as extensive as the land. Beijing Buddhists, and mountain climbers,knew this. The so-called Greater Tibet includes all of China’s largest province, Qinghai, as well as portions of three other Chinese provinces