An Open Letter to President Obama About Afghanistan From William R. Polk
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...
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...
Paul Fitzgerald | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
That failure has finally occurred in Afghanistan and the consequences will be devastating, yet Washington continues along in a dreamlike haze, narrowing the argument to simplistic Vietnam era clichés while the world moves on without it.
Malou Innocent | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
Counterinsurgency--the U.S. military's present strategy--requires a legitimate host nation government, which is not in the foreseeable future regardless of who's president.
Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
A coalition government in Afghanstan, while supposedly offering the best of both worlds, tacitly condones an illegitimate election and would require America to broker power among competing personalities.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
The enemy in Afghanistan has discovered YouTube. CNN's Fareed Zakaria briefly reported on the Taliban's foray into new media during his show on Su...
Eric Margolis | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
The claim that al-Qaida will reuse Afghanistan as a giant base camp, like Saddam's non-existent weapons of mass destruction, is a handy slogan to market the war to the public.
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
KABUL — A Taliban suicide bomber attacked officials leaving a mosque east of the capital Wednesday, killing the country's deputy intelligence ch...
Katya Wachtel | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
This is the story of one of the thousands of silhouettes who roam war-zones every day so that we, thousands of miles away, can grasp what is happening on the front-line of wars that affect life on this continent too.
Cedric Perrier | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
Defense is clearly at the sharp end of the Government's ongoing budget cuts. Yet British coffers alone may not be the only reason Brown is willing to stand firm.
Jim Luce | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
Afghan Star is the perfect window into a country's tenuous, ongoing struggle for modernity. What I would normally consider frivolous entertainment is downright revolutionary here.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
The insurgents that the Pakistani and U.S. forces are battling are various fronts of poor, largely uneducated men doing what their ancestors have done for centuries: defending the Pashtun way.
Graham E. Fuller | Posted 06.10.2009 | World
Only moderate Islamists themselves can prevail over the radicals whose main source of legitimacy comes from inciting popular resistance against the external invader.
Hedieh Mirahmadi | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
We cannot ignore the ideological underpinnings of our enemy and empower them to fight us another day. The question is how do we tell the difference between a warlord and a global jihadist.
Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
Obama's proposed tactics in the AfPak region have certainly been scrutinized, but truly vocal criticisms have maintained low decibel levels... until now.
Christian Science Monitor | Anand Gopal | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
Ms. Barakzai is among the growing number of Afghans - especially in the Pashtun south - who oppose a troop increase here, posing what could be the big...
Asia Times | By Pepe Escobar | Posted 03.29.2009 | World
Afghanistan is not only the graveyard of empires; it's a graveyard of misconceptions. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden believed that the mujahideen si...
Jeff Stein | Posted 03.20.2009 | World
The grumbling about Afghan President Hamid Karzai has grown so loud you'd think the Obama administration has given up on him.
Los Angeles Times | Paul Watson | Posted 02.11.2009 | Home
Reporting from Ghazni, Afghanistan -- The main highway is "enemy territory" for the Taliban, a busy two-lane road where U.S. troops race down the midd...
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 01.28.2009 | World
As the anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's assassination comes and goes, some people in Pakistan have quietly concluded that getting assassinated was the best thing she ever did.
Frankie Martin | Posted 01.09.2009 | World
Americans began to understand tribal culture and tribal codes of honor and hospitality. And they realized that organizations like Al-Qaeda were antithetical to traditional culture.
Eric Margolis | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
The Marriot attack is further proof that Pakistan is edging ever deeper into outright civil conflict at a time when the stalemated war in Afghanistan is steadily seeping into Pakistan.
The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World