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Tomgram: Ann Jones, The Afghan Reconstruction Boondoggle
TomDispatch — ... militarily, a further build-up of coalition military forces, another five or 10 or 20 years of foreign "training" programs for Afghan forces still "not ready for the task" -- no one asks how Taliban fighters, no less "Afghan," prove so ready to fight without years of American training -- is the only context for future success in "reconstructing" that country. Ann Jones, who was a humanitarian aid worker in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2006 and wrote a moving book about the experience, Kabul in Winter, suggests just why this essentially repetitive formula, which will now pass as ...

Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats
Daily Kos — ... militarily, a further build-up of coalition military forces, another five or 10 or 20 years of foreign "training" programs for Afghan forces still "not ready for the task" -- no one asks how Taliban fighters, no less "Afghan," prove so ready to fight without years of American training -- is the only context for future success in "reconstructing" that country. Ann Jones, who was a humanitarian aid worker in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2006 and wrote a moving book about the experience, Kabul in Winter, suggests just why this essentially repetitive formula, which will now pass as ...

Tomgram: Ann Jones, Wars Abroad Continue at Home
TomDispatch — ... , as well as the author of Kabul in Winter (a beautifully written reminder of just how long America's war in Afghanistan has been going on) and of Women Who Kill, a contemporary classic to be reissued this fall by the Feminist Press. (That ...

Ann Jones: Death on the Home Front
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... In April 2000, after three soldiers stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, murdered their wives and CBS TV's 60 Minutes broke a story on those deaths, the Pentagon ...

Tomgram: Ann Jones, Us or Them in Afghanistan?
TomDispatch — ... Fortunately, TomDispatch is ready to remedy this. Site regular Jones, who first went to Afghanistan in 2002 and, in an elegant memoir, Kabul in Winter, has vividly described her years working with Afghan women, spent time this July visiting U.S. training programs for both the Afghan army and police. She offers an eye-opening, on-the-spot look at certain realities which turn the "debate" in Washington inside out and upside down. Tom ...

Ann Jones: Meet the Afghan Army: Is It a Figment of Washington's Imagination?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Ann Jones is the author of Kabul in Winter (Metropolitan, 2006) and writes often about Afghanistan for TomDispatch and the Nation. War Is Not Over When It's Over, her new book about the impact of war on women, will be published next year. ...