Of course Afghanistan is corrupt, like all third world nations, but compared to his western critics, poor Hamid Karzai is a mere beggar in the Kabul bazaar.
Sen. Ted Kaufman | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
At this critical juncture, we must hold the Afghan government accountable for its actions and urge renewed leadership, determination, and resolve. The Afghan people have a vision for peace and security.
AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
KABUL — Three Afghan Cabinet officials and 12 former ministers are under investigation for alleged corruption, the attorney general's office sai...
Foreign Policy | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
Meet the unsavory characters surrounding the Afghan president and his new government....
BBC News | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
Two Afghan cabinet ministers are under investigation for alleged corruption, the attorney general's office has said....
Wall Street Journal | PETER SPIEGEL and STEPHEN FIDLER | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
U.S. and European estimates of the new troops they may get from NATO allies vary from 3,000 to 7,000. Those would complement the additional U.S. force...
Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
In an interview with NPR Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Afghan President Hamid Karzai, calling him an "unworthy partner" who wasn't deserv...
washingtonpost.com | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinn...
AP | KATHY GANNON and ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
KABUL — For his critics, President Hamid Karzai's inaugural speech Thursday struck all the right notes – sober pledges to get tough on cor...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A blast early Friday killed two police offers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwe...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Matthew Hoh and Daniel Ellsberg, recently sat down for a conversation about the war in Afghanistan. Matthew Hoh made headlines late last month when ...
Pratap Chatterjee | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
The tale of the "reconstruction" of Kabul's electricity supply is a classic story of how foreign aid has often served to line the pockets of both international contractors from the donor countries and the local political elite.
New York Times | CHRISTOPHER DREW | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
While President Obama's decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan is primarily a military one, it also has substantial budget implications tha...
Malou Innocent | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
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.
Norman Solomon | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
After 30 years of war, Afghans do not need more ingenious war efforts by the latest batch of best and brightest in Washington.
Reuters | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
The United States is concerned about corruption and poor governance in Afghanistan and has raised those issues with the administration of President Ha...
The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...
CBS News | Font Size Print E | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more tro...
Jodie Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Women's rights (which are, in fact, human rights) will never rise from a corrupt, fundamentalist government. We need to be supporting the voices of women to nurture change in Afghanistan.
Vivien Lesnik Weisman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact
Malalai Joya is the one-time youngest member of Parliament who has survived four assassination attempts on her life and routinely lambastes the Taliban, the Karzai government and President Obama.
Inter Press Service | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for dec...
Gerard Russell | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
President Karzai has promised to rule inclusively after his contested victory. But this must mean more than just how he forms his government.
Michael Brenner | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
Obama will do the predictable next week and sign on to plans for an expanded American commitment in Afghanistan. In truth, he could not do otherwise -- for three reasons.
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, kept squabbling and trading charges of fraud until the election pre-rigged by Washington fell apart. The real ruler of most of Afghanistan remains the US military and Obama.
Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.24.2009 | World