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Obama's Dilemma: Prison Corruption a Symptom of How Sick We Are in Afghanistan
Amid the near-constant speculation over President Barack Obama's strategy for Afghanistan, there appears to be virtually universal consensus that root...
"A Soldier is A Terrible Thing to Waste"
In word-wise America, "sacrifice" has triumphed as the socially polite term for referring to the thousands of American lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, with no end in sight.
Friday Talking Points -- Count Me With The Misfits
Whether or not Harry Reid ever gets his act together, the achievement of Nancy Pelosi getting healthcare reform legislation should stand on its own as an admirable political achievement.
What Obama Wants in Afghanistan -- and What Women Need
As the administration ponders the very real possibility of becoming the newest addition to the "graveyard of empires", there is one aspect of Afghan society everyone seems to have forgotten: the women.
"War Kills Off Great Reform Movements"
Mr. President: As you consider whether to march further into the trap of Afghanistan, please don't forget the memorable phrase that E. J. Dionne rece...
Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil, Now Joined By "Liberal Scion" Peter Galbraith
Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.
Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan
Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome? There is something very Captain R...
Pentagon Funds Taliban Who Are Killing US Troops
We're paying to send American troops to Afghanistan and we're also paying Afghans insurgents who will see to it that those troops come back in caskets: a crazed, pointless machinery of death.
A Real Team of Rivals
Obama's hesitancy in Afghanistan is an implicit recognition that the United States might not succeed in laying a centrally administered facade onto Afghanistan's preexisting society.
Brothers Was the Best Film I Saw in 2005; Will the American Remake Be as Powerful?
No knock on the American remake, but I'd get my hands on a DVD of Susanne Bier's movie, set in Denmark, first. It will hurt you to watch it. But I promise you: It's all good. Indeed, it's the best.
President Obama's War Movie
Oren Moverman's directorial debut, The Messenger, is the first war movie of the Obama era. The movie is infused with an intellectualness and inclusiveness that would make our president proud.
Isolated Incident
Moving forward from the latest massacre, three narratives -- well, one of them is no more than the familiar, all-purpose shrug of experts, puzzled ove...
Mr. President: LBJ's Fail Is Your Afghan Model
Mr. President: The failure of Lyndon B. Johnson's Administration due to Vietnam is your model here. And you're smart enough to understand what that ...
A Hundred Cities Against Escalation As the President Announces It
Recent press speculation suggests at least even odds that sometime in November, President Obama will give a speech announcing that he intends to send ...
The War Stampede
After 30 years of war, Afghans do not need more ingenious war efforts by the latest batch of best and brightest in Washington.
Understanding the Traumas of War
Here is a letter I received from Dr. Russell Carr, a military psychiatrist who has been treating soldiers and Marines suffering from combat-related emotional trauma.
Iraq & Afghan Wars: Just Give Me Some Truth
Kudos, at long last, to Alissa Rubin for having the courage to say she was wrong. Here's hoping she and others in the Kabul class of 2009 will do better in the future in Afghanistan.
Paying Peter to Kill Paul
American and NATO service members deserve better than to possibly die fighting an insurgency that even American contractors admit is being funded by the Department of Defense.
War Dead and Differential Grief
This year we have lost a total of 429 soldiers, an average of 1.2 per day, every day of the year, or the equivalent of a Ford Hood every 11 days. We should all ponder that.
Another Letter About Afghanistan the President May Not Be Reading
Following Matthew Hoh's resignation letter comes a missive from William Polk who, like Hoh, finds the only prudent course of action regarding Afghanistan to be a timely removal of troops.
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