Not Building the Afghan State, Protecting the United States
Clearly, we would prefer the Afghan government take on this mission, but until they can do so themselves, in order to prevent more American civilian deaths, we must do it ourselves.
Clearly, we would prefer the Afghan government take on this mission, but until they can do so themselves, in order to prevent more American civilian deaths, we must do it ourselves.
Wired | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
President Obama has just laid out his new war strategy. And he's made it clear that the fight is both in Afghanistan and Pakistan. So I asked Dennis M...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was "extremely gratified" with Barack Obama's speech and approach to the war in Afghanistan, the president's chief diplo...
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 03.24.2009 | World
Sure some of this mayhem is Karzai's fault and he may not be the best for Afghanistan in the future, but we, the international community, must leave that decision to the Afghans.
Al Jazeera English | Posted 03.16.2009 | World
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has admitted that there is tension between his government and the new US administration....
The Independent | Kim Sengupta | Posted 03.16.2009 | World
Richard Holbrooke arrived in Kabul yesterday with the evidence of the lethal resurgence of the Taliban only too plain to see - the debris from a serie...
AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 03.15.2009 | World
KABUL — The new U.S. regional envoy landed in Afghanistan on Thursday to help chart President Barack Obama's strategy for peace in this volatile...
WorldFocus | Posted 03.13.2009 | World
President Barack Obama is dealing with the expanding war in Afghanistan, violence in neighboring Pakistan and militants on both sides of the Afghan-...
Washingtonpost.com | Craig Whitlock | Posted 03.11.2009 | World
MUNICH, Feb. 8 -- President Obama's national security team gave a dire assessment Sunday of the war in Afghanistan, with one member calling it a chall...
CommonDreams.org | Posted 02.24.2009 | World
It was early in October 2001, and I had been invited to New York City on behalf of The History Channel for a show in which I was to discuss the situat...
Jonathan Morgenstein | Posted 09.20.2009 | World