Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, isolationist, pro-chaos writers insist that negotiations between the Taliban and Karzai's so-called peace council will yield a result preferable for the Afghan people to the presence of US and NATO Coalition forces. A preview of what a premature US/NATO military exit really...

Many people, especially folks who think they know a thing or zip about Afghanistan, believe that the International Coalition is only there to support American lust for cheap natural resources. This is wrong on so many levels. Let's review a few.

If petroleum - the mineral most favored by the...

This summer a teenage girl took a courageous stand for her country by bravely allowing TIME magazine to publish her butchered face on its cover. She was not a pawn of the military industrial complex. No one twisted her arm to tell Aryn Baker her story. Bibi Ayesha made a...

For the sake of anyone who cares about the fate of the Afghan people (particularly those folks who believe their lives would be improved by the absence of US and NATO military forces), below is a sampling of Taliban human rights atrocities for the past month.

Among their...

Make no mistake, withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan, before the country is strong enough to defend itself, would not result in peace for the Afghan people. It would result in a repeat of the horrors of the 1990s, when, according to Human Rights Watch, over 400,000 Afghans...

"Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest." -- George Hunter White, U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics

For well over half a century, the CIA (and its predecessor, OSS) has been violating the Geneva Conventions...

Most Americans' image of Congressman Charles Nesbitt Wilson is based upon the book and/or movie, Charlie Wilson's War. According to both of these sources, when Congressman Wilson first became involved in crafting U.S. policy towards Afghanistan, he was living on $700 a week.

The documentary evidence paints a very...

Lately there is a loud chorus among pundits, proclaiming Afghanistan to be the new Vietnam. Well, it's not. While the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan is certainly unique, it bears a great deal of resemblance to the former Yugoslavia. It is oh so easy to chant "Troops Out!" But the...