Zalmay Khalilzad

No Peace without Justice and Equality in Afghanistan

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zahir Shah, Women's Rights, Zalmay Khalilzad, Human Rights, World, Afghanistan, Taliban, Soviet Union, Karzai, Mujahideen, Afghanistan War, World News, Deobandi, World News
Michael Hughes

The notion that Afghans are uninterested in living in a progressive, just and free society is most certainly a colonial and racist one; however, it is...

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An Unsanitized Look at the Origins of the Iraq War

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, President George W. Bush, Douglas Feith, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, John Bolton, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, Iraq Occupation, Pnac, Dick Cheney, Msnbc, Pope John Paul, Cnn, Iraq WMD, Richard Armitage, Saddam Hussein, Peter Rodman, Iraq War, Fox News, Baghdad, Richard Perle, William Schneider, Dov Zakheim, Zalmay Khalilzad, Iraq Liberation Act, Elliot Abrams, Project for a New American Century, Neo-Conservatives, Neo-Cons, Paula Dobriansky, Karen Kwiatkowski, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The debacle in Iraq is not merely a result of errors in planning or poor decision-making. Soldiers are still risking their lives every day in Iraq, "combat" or no "combat," and many more will die for this policy our neo-con leaders handed down to us.

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Undoing Damage in Afghanistan Wrought by Bush-era Diplomat

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad, Afghansitan, World, Kathleen Parker, World News, White House, World News
Michael Hughes

Kathleen Parker's idea that Zalmay Khalilzad's "healing powers" could restore Afghan President Hamid Karzai's soundness is more insane than Karzai himself.

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Zalmay Khalilzad, Former US Envoy, May Take Key Role In Afghan Government

nytimes.com | HELENE COOPER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karzai, Afghanistan, War Wire, Khalilzad, Foreign Affairs, Zalmay Khalilzad Afghan Government, Hamid Karzai, Zalmay Khalilzad, World News

Zalmay Khalilzad, who was President George W. Bush's ambassador to Afghanistan, could assume a powerful, unelected position inside the Afghan governme...

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Diplo-Blogosphere: Ranking the French, Germans and Brits

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zalmay Khalilzad, Cem Oezdemir, David Miliband, Nigel Sheinwald, Loic Le Meur, Petra Roth, John Cleese, Juergen Ruettgers, Un Dispatch, Embassy Blogs, Barack Obama, Ralf Fuecks, Diplomatic Blogs, Boell Foundation, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Klaus Scharioth, Sam Stein, Guido Westerwelle, Mark Goldberg, Michael Von Ungern-Sternberg, The Washington Note, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Huffington Post, Frank Luntz, Pierre Vimont, Diplo-Blogosphere, France, Germany, United Kingdom, World News
Steve Clemons

How are the embassies dealing with new media, and using or ignoring the tools that online video and blogging can provide?

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Crisis Looms Over Afghan Election

GlobalPost.com | Jean MacKenzie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Globalpost, Zalmay Khalilzad, Ashraf Ghani, Afghan Election, Afghanistan, Jalali, Afghanistan Election, Obama Karzai, Ali Ahmad Jalali, Karzai Election, Afghanistan Election Constitutional Crisis, World News

KABUL -- Hamid Karzai's days as president of Afghanistan appear to be numbered. But his behavior would indicate that somebody forgot to tell the man...

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Obama's Team Stumbling Into Afghanistan Trap

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zalmay Khalilzad, John McCain, New America Foundation, Pakistan, Jon Nagl, US Foreign Policy, Center for a New American Security, Barack Obama, Bonn Conference, Andrew Exum, Insurgency, Taliban, Parag Khanna, Afghanistan, James Dobbins, Kori Schake, Michele Flournoy, Kurt Campbell, Giuiliani, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Throwing more troops into the mess in Afghanistan is the kind of mistake that the previous administration would make. Obama needs to show that he has learned something of those mistakes.

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Obama's Team Needs to Drop Phobia Towards Arab-Americans and Muslims

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zalmay Khalilzad, Justin Vogt, James Zogby, Tom Ridge, Colin Powell, Muslims, Arab American Institute, Muslim Americans, Rashid Khalidi, Fox and Friends, Barack Obama, The National, Arab Americans, Politics News
Steve Clemons

America needs Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans in positions of responsibility in our government -- and not just dealing with Arab-American and Muslim issues.

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Wrong...Wrong...Wrong: Obama Lets Muslim Advisor Resign

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zalmay Khalilzad, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalist Muslim, Zero Sum Game, Secularist, Muslim American, Mustafa Barghouti, Scott Mcclellan, Ehud Ohlmert, George W. Bush, Palestine, Keith Ellison, Robert Malley, Bill Burton, Hamas, Paul Volcker, Jeremiah Wright, Palestinians, Barack Obama, Jewish, Religion, Muslim, Ted Sorensen, Buddhist, Israel, Islamic, William Ayers, Mazen Asbahi, Head Scarves, Christian, Eric Shinseki, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Obama should convince the American public that he's not setting up a zero sum game between Muslims on one side and Christians and Jews on the other.

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Fault Lines Emanating From Zimbabwe

Joe Lauria | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Darfur, Zalmay Khalilzad, Sudan, Zimbabwe Violence, Zimbabwe, United Nations, Russia, Zimbabwe Elections, China, Robert Mugabe, Sanctions, Africa, Diplomacy, Politics News
Joe Lauria

The vetoed sanctions resolution against Zimbabwe at the Security Council has exposed international tensions that divide the West from Africa, Russia from the West and the US from South Africa.

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