Frank Rich: The Missing Link Between Fort Hood And The War In Afghanistan
For all the right's jeremiads, its own brand of political correctness kept it from connecting two crucial dots: how our failing war against terrorists...
For all the right's jeremiads, its own brand of political correctness kept it from connecting two crucial dots: how our failing war against terrorists...
William Bradley | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.
Robert Naiman | Posted 11.13.2009 | 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...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and st...
Posted 11.12.2009 | World
ABC News has obtained a video shot by the Taliban that shows their attack on a U.S. outpost in Wanat, Nuristan that killed nine American soldiers on J...
Bruce Wilson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
We're paying to send American troops to Afghanistan and we're also paying Afghans insurgents who will see to it that those troops come back in caskets: a crazed, pointless machinery of death.
Jon Soltz | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
American and NATO service members deserve better than to possibly die fighting an insurgency that even American contractors admit is being funded by the Department of Defense.
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell reveale...
Michael Brenner | Posted 11.11.2009 | 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.
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.
The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
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...
Saad Khan | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
The Pakistani military has launched an offensive against the Taliban in the South Waziristan region, but it isn't working. To effectively fend off the militants, a much stronger effort is needed.
Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Remarkably, Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future. It is paradoxical that the graveyard of one superpower should become a battlefield for the other.
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.
Reuters | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
NATO and Afghan officials claimed on Monday their forces had killed at least 130 Taliban fighters in a major operation over the past week in an area o...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a market in northwest Pakistan crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, ...
AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 11.09.2009 | Style
By CHRIS BRUMMITT, Associated Press Writer KARACHI, Pakistan — Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others...
Will Marshall | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.
Saad Khan | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
If the United States wants to win some hearts in Pakistan, its aid should go to organizations directly working for public health and education. It's time to engage with the common Pakistani.
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
It is time to set aside the notion that U.S. drone missile attacks in Pakistan are some kind of secret.
AP | DEB RIECHMANN and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
KABUL — The United Nations is sending about 600 foreign staff out of the country or into secure compounds because of the deadly Taliban attack o...
Rolling Stone | Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...
Abdul Malik Mujahid | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
As Indians mark the death anniversary of Indira Gandhi, Sikhs renew their call for justice, and Pakistan bleeds with terrorism, it is important to reflect on justice, reconciliation and forgiveness.
AP | ELENA BECATOROS and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
KABUL — The killing of five British troops by a rogue Afghan policeman underlines concerns about training and discipline within the ranks and po...
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
The first U.S. government official to formally resign his post because of objections to America's course in Afghanistan makes a compelling case that America has lost its strategic sensibilities in this war.
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics