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Rethink Afghanistan

Robert Baer: What We're Up Against In Afghanistan Is A "War Of National Resistance"

Posted 11.24.2009 | World

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In the latest video from the Brave New Foundation's "Rethink Afghanistan" project, former CIA agent Robert Bear says that what the U.S. faces when it ...

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An Interview With Matthew Hoh

Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaida, Rethink Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, Coin, Richard Holbrooke, Matthew Hoh, Taliban, Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, World News
Derrick Crowe

If Matthew Hoh could tell you one thing to help you understand the United States' predicament in Afghanistan, it's that the presence of our ground combat troops is not doing anything to defeat al Qaeda.

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Need Cover for Betraying the Democratic Base? Ask The Democratic Strategist!

Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Vega, William Galston, Ruy Teixeira, Afghanistan, The Democratic Strategist, Rethink Afghanistan, Stan Greenberg, Politics News
Derrick Crowe

Look, "strategists," this is very simple. Decisive majorities of Democrats oppose sending more troops to Afghanistan.

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Abdullah May Boycott the Afghan Runoff Vote

Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Afghan Elections, Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan, Karzai, Abdullah, World News
Derrick Crowe

Talks between Hamid Karzai and Abdullah broke down today, October 30, according to CNN, meaning there will be no power-sharing arrangement to head off a highly problematic runoff vote.

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Hope Springs Eternal for Second-Chance Bruce

Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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Derrick Crowe

For Bruce Riedel, this is our last chance in Afghanistan. And this time, he really seriously means it.

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The Winner of the Afghan Election: Electoral Fraud

Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Petraeus, U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, Rethink Afghanistan, Mcchrystal, Afghanistan, U.S. Army, Karzai, Counterinsurgency, Abdullah, Coin, Nagl, World News
Derrick Crowe

We can now stand back in awe as the unpunished perpetrators of massive election fraud vie for control of the criminal enterprise called the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Religion Must Be Part of the Solution in Afghanistan

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Stanley McChrystal, Islam, Cordoba Initiative, Afghanistan War, Obama War in Afghanistan, Religion and Politics, Rethink-Afghanistan, Us Troops Afghanistan, World News
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

We do have a moral responsibility -- not to mention a strategic interest -- in not abandoning the Afghan people. Now we must engage religion to be part of the solution.

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Afghanistan: Collateral Damage From Paris to Punjab

Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: U.S. Troops, Punjab, Afghanistan, Kashmir, 9/11, India, Heroin, Collateral Damage, Paris, Afghanistan War, President Obama Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan, World News
Mira Kamdar

I have seen what is antiseptically known as collateral damage from this war in two unlikely places: the city of Paris and the countryside of rural Punjab.

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Sign the act.ly Petition to End the War in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Civilian Deaths, Twitter, Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan, Act.ly, Troop Deaths, War Costs, World News
Derrick Crowe

I've just launched an act.ly petition asking the White House to end the war in Afghanistan. Please sign it (you must have a Twitter account to do so) ...

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Rethink Afghanistan: Filmmaker Robert Greenwald "Took A Lot Of Grief" For Movie On Afghan War Policy

Raw Story | Kathleen Miller | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Vietnam, Mcchyrstal, Vietnam War, Kennedy, Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan, Obama, Donna Edwards, Terrorism, Robert Greenwald, Troop Levels, Rethink Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News

The left-wing filmmaker behind a documentary that questions U.S. policy in Afghanistan says he "took a lot of grief" and lost progressive donors when ...

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Push Into Helmand Triggered Severe Spike in Civilian Death Rate, Failed its Objectives

Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Improvised Explosive Devices, Civilian Deaths, Nato, Suicide Bombings, Operation Khanjar, Rethink Afghanistan, Ieds, Mcchrystal, Civilian Casualties, Isaf, Afghanistan, Afghan Election, World News
Derrick Crowe

More troops are not the answer in Afghanistan. We need to lower the overall level of military conflict as quickly as possible, and the only way to do that is to sharply reduce the number of U.S. troops.

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McChrystal Rejects Calls To Lower Afghan Aims

New York Times | JOHN F. BURNS and ALAN COWELL | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

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The top military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, rejected calls for scaling down military objectives there on Thursday and said ...

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Ryan Grim

Rethink Afghanistan: New Documentary Calls For End To War (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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As President Obama comes under increasing pressure to exit Afghanistan after eight years of war - or at least to come up with a credible strategy - a ...

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The Generals and Obama. With Friends Like These.....

Robert Greenwald | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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Robert Greenwald

The military has decided it needs more troops in Afghanistan (didn't see that one coming did ya?). News flash: The military always decides it needs more troops in wartime.

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Robert Greenwald: Take Troops Out Of Afghanistan (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan, Robert Greenwald, Interview, Us Troops Afghanistan, The Ed Show, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Robert Greenwald, director of the new film Rethink Afghanistan, appeared on "The Ed Show" Wednesday night to make a case against further troop deploym...

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Snake Eyes in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

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Derrick Crowe

None of the credible options in Afghanistan offer real chances for rolling back the insurgent reaction to our presence or reducing terrorism against the United States.

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Gen. McChrystal's Assessment Ignores COIN Doctrine, Reality

Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: John McCain, Rethink Afghanistan, Bill Kristol, Escalation, Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan, Joe Lieberman, Mike Mullen, Barack Obama, Counterinsurgency, World News
Derrick Crowe

If the president was looking for a signal that the situation had progressed to a stage in which the military could not offer a credible plan to deal with it, this is it.

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Counterinsurgency Is a Mental Illness

Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

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Derrick Crowe

From top to bottom, the U.S. effort in Afghanistan commits the fundamental sin of domination: the valuation of people as means instead of as ends.

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Constitutional Death Spiral in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah, Rethink Afghanistan, Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Karzai, World News
Derrick Crowe

It's no longer a question of whether Afghanistan is "worth it." The only question left to answer is, "how much more Hell will we put our young men and women through?"

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Vested Interests in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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Derrick Crowe

Bruce Riedel at Brookings says we have a vested interest in shoring up Karzai's legitimacy. That's not surprising, given that Riedel certainly has such a vested interest.

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War Gone Wild in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

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Derrick Crowe

After more than 800 U.S. military casualties, tens of thousands of Afghan civilian deaths and $228 billion, we have zero indications that Pashtuns in Afghanistan are any closer to giving their support to the Kabul government.

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Afghanistan: Where This Is Going

Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

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Derrick Crowe

If anti-government violence breaks out in Helmand and other Pashtun regions, there would be absolutely no room to argue against the conclusion that counterinsurgency has failed.

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In Afghanistan, We Know Failure When We See It

Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Pashtuns, Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan, General Mcchrystal, Counterinsurgency, Bruce Riedel, World News
Derrick Crowe

I've been mulling over the inability of Ambassador Holbrooke and Secretary Gates to define success in Afghanistan or to speculate about how long we should expect to be fighting a war there.

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CAP's Lawrence Korb: More Fringe Than Orly Taitz?

Derrick Crowe | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Rethink Afghanistan, Surgers, George Lakoff, Lawrence Korb, Afghanistan, War on Terror, Peter Paul and Mary, Bruce Riedel, Evan Frisch, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Derrick Crowe

The War on Terror frame is dangerous, and the policies that emerge from it make us less secure while failing to stop terrorism.

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Three Former Top CIA Agents Say War In Afghanistan Making World More Dangerous (VIDEO)

Posted 09.23.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan, Afghanistan Terrorism, World News

In a powerful new documentary, "Security" from the Rethink Afghanistan project, three former high-ranking CIA agents explain why the war in Afghanista...

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