www.youtube.com — Sen. John McCain said on Sunday that additional U.S. Troops are needed in Afghanistan. McCain made the statement after meeting with Afghan President Hamid K...
Stephen C. Rose: The War in Afghanistan Is A No-Win Situation
www.huffingtonpost.com 11/16/2008 — By Stephen C. Rose
The situation in Afghanistan weighs more and more heavily on us. I took it up in a Huffington Post piece a while back titled Could Barack Obama Suffer The Fate of LBJ?
Many wish the war on terror to be translated from a ...
By Stephen C. Rose
The situation in Afghanistan weighs more and more heavily on us. I took it up in a Huffington Post piece a while back titled Could Barack Obama Suffer The Fate of LBJ?
Many wish the war on terror to be translated from a ...
Get Afghanistan Right
www.dailykos.com 1/13/2009 — An ad hoc group of bloggers has come together for the purpose of opposing a U.S.-led escalation in Afghanistan that is slated to double the number of American troops there. Organized by Alex Thurston at The Seminal and Robert Greenwald's ...
An ad hoc group of bloggers has come together for the purpose of opposing a U.S.-led escalation in Afghanistan that is slated to double the number of American troops there. Organized by Alex Thurston at The Seminal and Robert Greenwald's ...
Obama's Afghanistan Dilemma: "Growing Dissent" On More Troops
www.huffingtonpost.com 12/10/2008 — No more than one year ago, it was widely assumed that the great foreign policy challenge facing the next president would be what to do with U.S. troops in Iraq. The surge had produced a unexpected geopolitical dilemma: was the reduction of violence ...
No more than one year ago, it was widely assumed that the great foreign policy challenge facing the next president would be what to do with U.S. troops in Iraq. The surge had produced a unexpected geopolitical dilemma: was the reduction of violence ...
Shakedown
www.michaelyon-online.com 11/18/2008 — By Tim Lynch Printed with permission from: http://blog.freerangeinternational.com/ Afghanistan We had to make a run to Kabul last Friday to take some clients to the airport and to pick up new ones. The Jalalabad to Kabul road is considered very ...
By Tim Lynch Printed with permission from: http://blog.freerangeinternational.com/ Afghanistan We had to make a run to Kabul last Friday to take some clients to the airport and to pick up new ones. The Jalalabad to Kabul road is considered very ...
Getting Afghanistan Right
agonist.org 1/14/2009 — Memo to President-Elect Obama:
"Now it is folly to go against men who could not be kept under even if conquered, while failure would leave us in a very different position from that which we occupied before the enterprise."
Thucydides, VI, 11. ...
Memo to President-Elect Obama:
"Now it is folly to go against men who could not be kept under even if conquered, while failure would leave us in a very different position from that which we occupied before the enterprise."
Thucydides, VI, 11. ...
More Troops for Afghanistan
attackerman.firedoglake.com 2/18/2009 — He promised to do so on the campaign trail, and now he's done it: President Barack Obama has approved a troop increase to Afghanistan. His just-released statement is below. Notice that the forces approved appears to be less than the 20,000-30,000 ...
He promised to do so on the campaign trail, and now he's done it: President Barack Obama has approved a troop increase to Afghanistan. His just-released statement is below. Notice that the forces approved appears to be less than the 20,000-30,000 ...
What, I Was Serious?
www.windsofchange.net 1/15/2009 — I saw this the other day, and waited for it to get picked up and commented on. It wasn't, so I'll raise it here.
Here's Spencer Ackerman writing in the Washington Independent :
Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against ...
I saw this the other day, and waited for it to get picked up and commented on. It wasn't, so I'll raise it here.
Here's Spencer Ackerman writing in the Washington Independent :
Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against ...
GetAfghanistanRight.com
washingtonindependent.com 1/12/2009 — Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the ...
Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the ...
Afghanistan-- Possibly Worse For Obama (And America) Than Even Rahm Emanuel
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com 12/8/2008 — Afghanistan: not a very nice place lately Yesterday the NY Times reported that the military is preparing a big troop buildup in Afghanistan . This could be a terrible miscalculation and I'm only slightly less worried about it under Obama than I ...
Afghanistan: not a very nice place lately Yesterday the NY Times reported that the military is preparing a big troop buildup in Afghanistan . This could be a terrible miscalculation and I'm only slightly less worried about it under Obama than I ...
Afghanistan: "The opposite of everything we consider to be democracy"
www.newshoggers.com 12/23/2008 — By Cernig
Sarah Chayes went to Afghanistan to report for National Public Radio just a few weeks after 9/11, then stayed to become one of the few Westerners running a business there. In a recent op-ed for the Washington Post she wrote that the big ...
By Cernig
Sarah Chayes went to Afghanistan to report for National Public Radio just a few weeks after 9/11, then stayed to become one of the few Westerners running a business there. In a recent op-ed for the Washington Post she wrote that the big ...
September 11 defendants ask to plead guilty —
Reuters: Politics 12/8/2008
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The self-styled mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four co-defendants sent a note to a military judge at Guantanamo on Monday saying they wanted to confess and plead guilty.
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