Tony Karon’s new Time Magazine defiantly denounces President Obama’s call for a troop escalation.
Its title, Five Flawed Assumptions of Obama’s Afghan Surge, says it all, and the piece itself summarizes concisely points that this site and many others have been arguing for months:
1. Expanding the ground war against the Talib [...]
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Obama’s Afghan Troop Surge: Fiv...
Tony Karon’s new Time Magazine defiantly denounces President Obama’s call for a troop escalation.
Its title, Five Flawed Assumptions of Obama’s Afghan Surge, says it all, and the piece itself summarizes concisely points that this site and many others have been arguing for months:
1. Expanding the ground war against the Talib [...]
The Karzais, Drugs and the C.I.A.
It was common knowledge to everyone on the ground in Afghanistan except for Senator John Kerry that Ahmed Wali Karzai, President Karzai’s brother, heads a massive, lucrative opium trafficking operation.
Kerry said he had asked U.S intelligence agencies “for the smoking gun”, and had not gotten “the hard and fast” [...]
No Way Out
Women are made for homes or graves.
–Afghan saying
In her new piece for The Nation, Ann Jones has ripped the heart out of the argument that we should continue our mission in Afghanistan to prevent the plight of women. As someone who has worked with women there, Jones comes to this conclusion out of frustration at the Karzai admin [...]
Afghan Elections: Oh Abdullah!
A few weeks from the Afghan presidential run-off, few people in the west know much about President Hamid Karzai’s opponent, Abdullah Abdullah. Since President Karzai is clearly an unworkable partner if we want to succeed in Afghanistan (at any level), it’s worth evaluating his rival. I was pleasantly surprised at what I discovered [...]
The Afghan Quagmire
Last week President Obama conducted the fifth strategy meeting with his national security team on Afghanistan. Looking how quickly the U.S. is sinking into this hole, I decided to do a little bit of poking around of my own in New York City to get a sense what Afghans living here had to say about what was happening.
As expected, many expats w [...]