Iraq-Afghanistan Surge Analogies Mask Risks Of Afghanistan
In fact, Iraq analogies have been flying back and forth so furiously in recent days that Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, the only holdover from ...
In fact, Iraq analogies have been flying back and forth so furiously in recent days that Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, the only holdover from ...
William Bradley | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
It's Barack Obama's war now -- a war in which the Nobel Peace Prize-winner has placed himself at the helm of the largest military force ever sent to Afghanistan. Here are some key things to know.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
It's not because of bin Laden, al-Qaeda, or the Taliban. The real reason behing the surge is Pakistan, a failed state with nuclear warheads.
AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
KABUL — President Hamid Karzai put a brave face Thursday on President Barack Obama's decision to start pulling out troops in mid-2011, telling T...
Phyllis Bennis | Posted 12.03.2009 | World
The White House has dropped the rhetoric. Now it's official. It's not about Afghanistan and Afghans at all -- it's all about us.
The New York Review of Books | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books
Pakistani author and journalist Ahmed Rashid writes in the New York Review of Books about Obama's "missing strategy" in Afghanistan. After all the ta...
Megan Carpentier | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Is a graceful withdrawal and a less unstable puppet government worth more American lives? Are those lives really worth that "success"?
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 12.03.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — A deeply skeptical Congress on Wednesday resigned itself to President Barack Obama's escalation of the Afghanistan war, even as the...
Charles Butler | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration has to stop campaigning to get down to governing. All of the campaign-like speeches are becoming quite transparent to the American people and foreigners alike.
Melissa Roddy | Posted 12.02.2009 | World
The U.S. bears much responsibility for the destruction of Afghanistan during the 1980s and 1990s. We have a duty to help Afghans rebuild their country and to defend them against their enemy who we've long enabled.
Nick Mills | Posted 12.02.2009 | World
President Obama's Afghan strategy is an attempt to give most stakeholders something to cheer about. Except in this situation the cheer sounds something like, "Well, yeah, okay, maybe...".
Adam Hanft | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Churchill was an orator who knew the power of the simple declarative: "The news from France is very bad." In that spirit, I stand before you tonight and say the news from Afghanistan is very bad.
Jon Soltz | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
By deploying an additional 34k troops, without speeding up the departure from Iraq, our force will remain overstretched. How does the administration reconcile this issue?
Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
Both the United States and Great Britain have failed to confront the role that Pakistan's fear of India plays in its conflict with Afghanistan. And more troops will only worsen what is already a misunderstood situation.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
We don't have a viable partner in Afghanistan and we don't have the legitimacy that is essential to rebuilding the country. The Afghans don't view us as their saviors. They view us as the latest intruder in their valley.
William E. Jackson Jr. | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
It troubles me that Obama is to give his big speech at West Point, because it only increases the pressure to pledge to the armed forces he will not permit an eventual end to the war that might prove their lives were lost in vain.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
Change the names, dates and particulars of the Algerian War, the Vietnam War and Soviet war in Afghanistan, and the history of mighty powers recycles itself in Af-Pak-Iraq.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
The movement which campaigned so hard to elect Obama may now have to actively fight against some of Obama's key policies. If not, protesters may soon be chanting the same slogans at Obama as were once chanted against LBJ.
Gerard Russell | Posted 11.30.2009 | World
Military force alone cannot roll back the Taliban's influence in Afghanistan. Karzai has promised a 'Loya Jirga,' a consultative gathering to discuss how to include the Taliban in the political system. But is the Loya Jirga going to be enough?
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
My mouth is fixed in a gape -- unable to correct itself after Thomas Friedman's pronouncement that for two decades, U.S. foreign policy has been dedicated to rescuing Muslims or freeing them from tyranny. Where does one begin, pray tell?
Summer Qassim | Posted 11.29.2009 | World
After I asked my then-fiance to grow a beard, the biggest cliche that I've encountered has been hearing people tell him, 'Your beard makes you look like a [insert Taliban, mullah, religious fundamentalist].'
Washington Post | Greg Jaffe | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
KABUL -- Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin deploying to southern Afgha...
GlobalPost | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
Life, death and the Taliban seeks to enhance America's understanding of Taliban history in Afghanistan and Pakistan. At this crucial time in the U.S.-...
AP | RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 11.26.2009 | World
KABUL — A helicopter belonging to an international military contractor has gone missing in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday. The helicopter...
Brian Vogt | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
While President Obama approaches a decision on America's war strategy in Afghanistan, across the border in Pakistan an equally important battle rages ...
New York Times | DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics