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Inside The Afghan "Civilian Surge"

The National (Arab Emirates) | Aram Roston | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

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As politicians and military officers alike continue to call for a 'civilian surge' in Afghanistan, Aram Roston reports from Wardak province on the imp...

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Time for Strategic Stamina

Will Marshall | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

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Will Marshall

President Obama now has a difficult sales job to perform. In essence, his message will be: we need to get in deeper to get out of Afghanistan sooner. He's right.

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Why A Maximalist Af-Pak Policy Will Not Work

Lionel Beehner | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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Lionel Beehner

Let's turn to Afghanistan. There is a weak and corrupt government, little to no standing armed forces, and parts of the country entirely controlled by the Taliban.

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War of the Worlds: London, 1898; Kabul, 2009

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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Tom Engelhardt

The US may now be represented in the Afghan countryside, mainly by Predators and their even more powerful cousins, Reapers, unmanned aerial vehicles with names straight out of a sci-fi film about implacable aliens.

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Af-Pak Blowback

John Feffer | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

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John Feffer

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.

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Obama Looses the Manhunters

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

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Tom Engelhardt

Obama's key foreign policy figures are traditional players in the national security state and pre-Bush-style Washington guardians of American power, thinking globally in familiar ways.

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Going for Broke

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 06.21.2009 | World

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Tom Engelhardt

Afghan commander General McChystal's mentality is undoubtedly a global-war-on-terror one, which translates into no respect for boundaries, restraints, or the sovereignty of others.

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Obama Pakistan Strategy Must Be Different From Afghanistan: Analysis

True Slant | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

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Is the White House right to support the Pakistani army's fight against militias on the Afghan border? Or should President Obama encourage fewer helico...

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Obama, Zardari, Karzai Meet To Discuss Taliban's Growing Strength

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration took on high-stakes diplomacy with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan Wednesday, seeking more coopera...

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Washington Has Created A Myth Of 'Talibanistan': Pepe Escobar

Asia Times Online | Pepe Escobar | Posted 06.03.2009 | World

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Apocalypse Now. Run for cover. The turbans are coming. This is the state of Pakistan today, according to the current hysteria disseminated by the Bara...

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Taliban Not Likely To Host Terrorist Groups: Analysis

Foreign Affairs | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

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George W. Bush led the United States into war in Iraq on the grounds that Saddam Hussein might give his country's nonexistent weapons of mass destruct...

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More Military Aid to Pakistan? Think Again...

Derek Flood | Posted 05.05.2009 | World

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Derek Flood

The United States must stop looking at the short term in Pakistan, as insurgencies are not a short term problem.

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America's 'Long War' Will Be As Pointless And Bloody As Europe's: William Pfaff

antiwar.com | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

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PARIS -- The Thirty Years' War occupies little space in the school texts of the English-speaking world, but its futility comes to mind when Richard Ho...

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The Imperial Unconscious

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

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Tom Engelhardt

We don't find it strange to have 16 intelligence agencies, running "covert wars" in tribal borderlands, flying unmanned drones over those borderlands, destroying those in camera view.

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