Obama and the Taliban
While sharing a similar ideology, al-Qa'eda and the Taliban are fundamentally distinct entities. It would behoove Sen. Obama, and his Republican counterpart, to explain exactly who the "Taliban" are they plan to fight.
While sharing a similar ideology, al-Qa'eda and the Taliban are fundamentally distinct entities. It would behoove Sen. Obama, and his Republican counterpart, to explain exactly who the "Taliban" are they plan to fight.
The Washington Post | Candace Rondeaux | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
KABUL -- U.S. and NATO military officials in Afghanistan have launched investigations into three separate U.S.-led airstrikes that Afghan officials sa...
AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces killed nine Afghan police Sunday, calling in airstrikes and fighting on the ground for fo...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
Obama's Afghan appearance won't stop the criticism from foes that he doesn't know enough about fighting and winning a war, and that his credential as a tough guy on the war against terrorism is suspect.
The Real News | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
According to NYU's Barnett Rubin, the US has put Afghanistan "on auto-pilot" while concentrating on Iraq, forcing NATO to implement post-conflict operations while conflicts in Afghanistan are still escalating.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
The conventional wisdom is that any day spent discussing national security is a good day for the McCain campaign. But Barack Obama's team appears to b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
SEE UPDATE BELOW John McCain likes to paint Barack Obama as a naive follower on key national security issues. But by moving up his planned Afghanista...
Steven Solomon and David Kaye | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
A variety of pressures compelled the NATO powers in Dublin to support a ban in principle while preserving American flexibility to use cluster munitions in joint operations with allies that might join the treaty.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Since the invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban have been getting stronger day by day. Now midway into 2008, all indications lead us to believe that the balance seems to be tilting in their favor.
AP | STEPHEN GRAHAM | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics
KABUL, Afghanistan — Roadside bombs killed five foreign troops and five government soldiers Saturday, part of a surge of violence that has made ...
Conn Hallinan | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Military alliances are always sold as things that produce security. In practice they tend to do the opposite -- NATO is an alliance in trouble.
AP | NOOR KHAN and JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — Backed by helicopters firing missiles, hundreds of NATO and Afghan forces hunted Taliban militants in villages outside ...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces killed more than 15 insurgents during a hunt for inmates who fled prison after a sophi...
Patrick Barry | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
If you try to square Rice's Marty McFly analysis in Foreign Affairs with the state of the world today, you end up with a catalog of faulty recommendations and squandered opportunities.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
Bush's European agenda is typically detached from the real world, as has been almost every other agenda that he has ever taken to Europe.
Mona Gable | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living
In May of 1999 I flew from Budapest into Tirana, the desiccated capital of Albania. I had come to this city at the edge of the Adriatic to follow a group of American doctors and nurses as they journeyed to the refugee camps.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
Sam Nunn as secretary of defense might be an inspired choice. Or perhaps a new position should be created, and Nunn could be secretary of nuclear de-proliferation.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 04.05.2008 | Media
You know what? I feel better. All that real-world stuff was bumming me out. Maybe venturing through the world of celebutards is the modern form of meditation.
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 04.04.2008 | Media
I know I am not alone in noticing how extraordinary the Times has been the implicit insights and commentaries in so many of the photographs they published over the same period.
AP | TERENCE HUNT | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
BUCHAREST, Romania — President Bush suffered a painful diplomatic setback Wednesday when NATO allies rebuffed his passionate pleas to put former...
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
The next administration will need to work overtime to achieve consensus on what this alliance actually does and why NATO matters. It will have a very short initial window of opportunity.
Amb. Alexandros P. Mallias | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Greece welcomes the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to NATO, provided our northern neighbor agrees to a name that differentiates the new Balkan state from the Greek province of Macedonia.
Russ Wellen | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration likes to think of itself as nuclear policeman to the world.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration's quick recognition of an independent Kosovo has given us a powerful reminder that empire is bipartisan, as are the tactics and rhetoric and bombs used to defend and expand it.
AP | ALLAUDDIN KHAN and JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber penetrated a crowd watching a dog-fighting competition in the Taliban's former stronghold Sunday, killi...
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Mark Levine | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics