In a dark and twisted revelation straight out of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, we now learn that the U.S military is currently paying millions of dollars a year to the Taliban and local warlords so that they don’t shoot at the convoys we are using to supply our soldiers so we can shoot at them.
It’s all pretty simple, really. F [...]
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How We Pay The Taliban Not To Shoot A...
In a dark and twisted revelation straight out of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, we now learn that the U.S military is currently paying millions of dollars a year to the Taliban and local warlords so that they don’t shoot at the convoys we are using to supply our soldiers so we can shoot at them.
It’s all pretty simple, really. F [...]
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 [...]