On July 6th, half-dozen troops were killed in Afghanistan by IED explosions. Those deaths underline the need to pay attention to the troops' equipment. I expected more reporting on the issue. There wasn't any.
Many figures have decried the inequity of "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the president and Congress to repeal the law. However, one community has remained resolutely silent: national veterans service organizations.
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We all need to raise awareness about these inhumane, unjust military practices funded by our taxes.
More than half of World Bank investment recipients from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s had the same or worsening rates of per capita income as before they received aid.
Unlike most of the rest of Europe, Russia is hardly in the grips of Obamamania. He's certainly more popular than George W. Bush or John McCain, but that's damning with faint praise.
Self immolation is a method of suicide by lighting oneself on fire and has reached epidemic levels amongst women in Afghanistan.
Even with so much sophisticated military hardware at their disposal, half a million Pakistani soldiers can't seem to counter the determined efforts of, at most, 15,000 Taliban fighters.
Whether it realizes it or not, Washington has placed itself in a fight for its life in Afghanistan, just the way the Soviets did.
You'd have to make a desperate effort not to know that Jackson had died, and you'd have to make a similarly desperate effort to know that we've bombed multiple wedding parties in Afghanistan.
Karzai has shown great political wile in the past year, sugaring up policies, revving up his campaign, maneuvering like a man possessed: he is determined to keep the presidency.
Huffington Post caught up with Afghanistan experts Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald and discussed recent developments in Afghanistan. Here's what they had to say.
She is not a narcissist. She just has the good sense to realize she is better and more deserving than most people to rule the planet and prepare humanity for the end of days.
"Unfortunately, I wasn't scared enough, and I wasn't cautious," Anderson admitted. "I got caught because I refused to take the precautions that I probably should have."
North Korea was to have been the drama of the day. But it turned into a major fizzle.
What did I learn from my 3 week media experiment? It's easier to zone out in front of a glowing rectangle than engage in reading.
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Having been in Afghanistan for four months, traveling around the country and reporting on the war, the "crucial operation" of t...
For veterans, the Fourth of July can be a difficult holiday to celebrate. With every uniform that marches by in parades, we remember our friends that did not make it home.
On the eve of our Grand Celebration of the extraordinary decree that declared us a free republic, we find ourselves chained to the wreckage of a brutally flawed casus belli.
The key in Afghanistan is the economy and not the military. The public should be demanding deeper press coverage of U.S. policy and strategy related to economic development.
Our military procurement system is a mess. Our automobile industry is a mess. We might have helped both if we had gotten them to agree to build the next generation of military vehicles together.
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endthis war
Like Blackwater for instance? With more billions for the neo-cons who control these companies?
Regardless of how many you take in the Afghans will win this war in the end. They're home, you're invaders. Get used to it.
Professor Dr. Stanley Collymore.
You had half a million troops in Vietnam, general.
The Afghans are TOUGHER than the Vietnamese.
He's too young to have been in Vietnam. He may be too young even to remember.
It's time we got out of Afghanistan. Completely.
If and when information on bin Ladin's whereabouts is obtained, send in special ops.
In the mean time work on energy independence and let the Middle East go to hell all own its own.
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