A Newsweek cover story purporting to demonstrate how the US could have "won" in Vietnam turns out to be a stalking horse for General McChrystal and the Pentagon hawks.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
If Congress is going to be called upon to finance this war with billions more in taxpayer dollars, this debate should be taking place in the halls of Congress in front of the American people.
Robert Naiman | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome? There is something very Captain R...
newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
Only hours before President Obama took off for Asia on Thursday, his national-security adviser landed in Pakistan on an unannounced trip to meet with ...
washingtonindependent.com | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
Update, 8:50 a.m.: I am retracting this post, published yesterday, titled "Inside This Morning's White House Afghanistan Meeting: Anger With Eikenberr...
Norman Solomon | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
After 30 years of war, Afghans do not need more ingenious war efforts by the latest batch of best and brightest in Washington.
Michael Brenner | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
Rarely has a great power so willfully set itself down the path of self-destruction with so little reason as America has in Afghanistan. This is pathological behavior that cries out for diagnosis and correction.
Robert Scheer | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
When Gorbachev came to power he, like Obama, inherited a war that was not in the interest of his nation. If the response of a Soviet dictator was to end it, might we not be justified in doing the same?
AP | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — The White House says President Barack Obama has narrowed down his decision for an Afghanistan strategy to four options. ...
Lionel Beehner | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
Let's turn to Afghanistan. There is a weak and corrupt government, little to no standing armed forces, and parts of the country entirely controlled by the Taliban.
CBS News | Font Size Print E | Posted 03.18.2010 | 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...
McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it unti...
CNN Political Ticker | Lauren Kornreich | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
Best-selling author Jon Krakauer sharply criticized Gen. Stanley McChrystal for his handling of former NFL player-turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman's dea...
nytimes.com | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- The nation's top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency fina...
Russ Baker | Posted 03.18.2010 | 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.
AP | ELENA BECATOROS and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
KABUL — The killing of five British troops by a rogue Afghan policeman underlines concerns about training and discipline within the ranks and po...
Robert Scheer | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.
Wall Street Journal | By YOCHI J. DREAZEN | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
The Army's top generals worry that surging tens of thousands more troops into Afghanistan could increase the strain felt by many military personnel af...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
Little attention has been paid to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's back-story and his rise to the height of military command of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. B...
BBC NEWS | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
President Hamid Karzai's rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election has announced that he is withdrawing from the poll....
Doug Bandow | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
He should not ask, is Afghanistan winnable? Rather, the right question is what should the U.S. attempt to achieve?
Mike Bonifer | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
A character like Stanley McChrystal cannot afford to show vulnerability to his enemies, and by enemies I mean anyone who would prevent The 40,000 from going into production with him as its star.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
The news media has an annoying tendency to focus on the symptoms, not the disease.
William Bradley | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
We can't afford to build a nation in Afghanistan. We have one reasonable goal there, and everything else, no matter how seemingly noble it may or may not be, is a luxury.
AP | ANNE GEARAN and MATTHEW LEE | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is considering sending large numbers of additional U.S. forces to Afghanistan next year but fewer than his w...
Rick Ayers | Posted 03.18.2010 | World