Hamid Karzai and Memories of Indochina
Thinking Outside the Herd
You'd like to think that some buffalo at the back of the herd, following all those thundering bulls with balls, Jonathan Livingston Buffalo maybe, is thinking, in response to the shrieking of crazed humans: "Wait a minute…" OK, so we're having...
Measuring a War Gone to Hell
Here may be the single strangest fact of our American world: that at least three administrations – Ronald Reagan's, George W. Bush's, and now Barack Obama's – drew the U.S. "defense" perimeter at the Hindu Kush; that is, in the rugged, mountainous lands of...
To Escalate the Escalation?
The debate rages among experts on whether to escalate the escalation of Barack Obama's "war of necessity" in Afghanistan – seemingly oblivious to American public opinion at home that has turned against waging the conflict at all. During even the best of...
Obama at the Rubicon
If the aphorism holds – the guerrilla wins if he does not lose – the Taliban are winning and America is losing the war in Afghanistan. Well into the eighth year of war, the Taliban are more numerous than ever, inflicting more casualties than ever, operating in more...
Killing America’s Kids
The Web is covered in stink today because of a reporter for the Associated Press, Julie Jacobson, who photographed the death of a Marine whose legs had just been blown off. The kid was Joshua Bernard, a lance corporal of 21 years. When the photo appeared, Robert...
Afghanistan Isn’t Worth One More American Life
Gates Sells Afghan Strategy Amid Growing Unease
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) remained tight-lipped about the contents of a confidential report on the future of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan in a wide-ranging Pentagon briefing on Thursday. The...
Taliban’s Tank-Killing Bombs Came from US, Not Iran
In support of the official U.S. assertion that Iran is arming its sworn enemy, the Taliban, the head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Dennis Blair, has cited a statement by a Taliban commander last year attributing military success...
