Are we willing to allow eight years of mistakes and mismanagement to go unmitigated, or do we risk more lives trying to at least clean up some of the mess before we bug out?
Who was the last soldier to die for the Vietnam mistake? And what can we learn from that example?
As with Vietnam, the problem in Afghanistan is political, not military. The United States can stay there forever if we want to -- but is it worth it?
We ought to demand more from Obama than the tired trope that we can only achieve peace by waging war. This means we need to challenge ourselves.
Dear Mr. President: You and many of your constituents shave been praising each other on this Thanksgiving, holiday season, so why not one more? ...
There's the depth of American military involvement, commitment, and the entrenched thinking that Afghanistan is the front line in the war on terrorism. Obama shares this thinking with the generals.
A recent posting on this blog remarked on the need for greater civil society involvement and for them to use their voice to make demands. So it&...
For the next 6-9 months, I will be traveling around the world capturing stories of leadership and heroism, learning about communities in need, and connecting them with the support of those looking to give it.
Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.
After years of propping up corrupt and ineffective governments in South Vietnam, the U.S. finally decided to enter into peace talks with the North Vietnamese. The same should happen with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Discovered only in 1992 by wildlife biologists, saolas are antelope-like bovine creatures who live in the forests on the border of Laos and Vietnam. ...
Without a draft, and without a war tax, 99.9% of Americans do not have to sacrifice at all to continue the war. It is too easy for war to become, for 99.9% of us, more like a video game played out on television.
While media attention in Iraq and Afghanistan focuses on car bombings and combat casualties, other disturbing events in the region are slipping through the news cycle almost unnoticed.
The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.
Let's pretend that a foreign country has decided to attack the United States mainland.
No one contends that Tom Friedman has the influence that Walter Cronkite did, but could Friedman's anti-Afghanistan editorial mark a similar war-time shift in thinking?
Many of us who served in Vietnam promised ourselves long ago that we would never again allow what happened to us in that war to ever happen again. We have an obligation to protest. To speak out.
You don't have to be a dove to understand what President Kennedy understood: putting U.S. troops on the ground somewhere doesn't automatically make you more powerful.
Sun Valley Adaptive Sports (SVAS) is a nonprofit project funded by the Annenberg Foundation to support wounded warriors with their recovery and reintegration into society.
Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."
The collapse of US efforts in Vietnam was made inevitable by the pervasive corruption and incompetence of a succession of governments in South Vietnam -- and here lies the lesson for Afghanistan.
