Obama in Afghanistan: Careful What You Wish For
Graham Usher : Barack Obama
He says Afghanistan is the war America should be fighting. But on this much-ballyhooed listening tour, will he be hearing anything he doesn't already know?
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Obama, Iraq and Afghanistan
Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008
Obama's plan to de-escalate the war in Iraq only to ramp up another in Afghanistan just might work. It could also entrap the US in an even wider quagmire.
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The Wedding Crashers
Tom Engelhardt : George W. Bush Administration
In Bush's wars, the singer dies, the bride does not get a chance to run away, and the event might be relabeled my big, fat, collateral damage wedding.
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Getting Pakistan Wrong
Graham Usher : Pakistan
The US military's aggressive confrontation with the Taliban and its Al Qaeda cohorts in Pakistan is only making matters worse.
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Torturing Iron Man
Nick Turse : Film
The Pentagon does a star turn in Iron Man, and the summer blockbuster turns the realities of the war in Afganistan upside down. Will anyone notice?
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Amid Silence, Terror War Escalates
Tom Hayden : Pakistan
Bush's "war on terror" is escalating without discussion or dissent amid the most open and democratic of American processes--the presidential debates.
2007
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Amnesia at the Multiplex
Lakshmi Chaudhry : Islam & Muslims
Two films address US adventures in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with a big dose of historical amnesia, political pandering, moral superiority and outraged innocence.
2006
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Waltzing With Warlords
Five years after the United States ousted the Taliban, optimism about Afghanistan's future is evaporating. Three new books shed light on what went wrong.
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Who's Running Afghan Policy?
David Corn : US Foreign Policy
Even if the United States has the will to do the hard work necessary to rebuild Afghanistan, there are few signs that senior Administration officials are engaged.
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Taliban Rising
Christian Parenti : US Wars & Military Action
If the corruption of Karzai's government is Afghanistan's new cancer, then the Taliban are increasingly seen as chemotherapy: an unpleasant but necessary remedy.
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Chaos and Fear Stalk Afghanistan on 9/11 Anniversary
As Taliban fighters clash with thinly spread NATO forces across Afghanistan and "suicide cell" claims lives daily in Kabul, hope is fading that the country can avoid descending into chaos.
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High on Opium, Not Democracy
In Bush-liberated Afghanistan, billions in drug profits are financing the Taliban, proving the President is better at starting wars than winning them.
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Women and Warlords
A policy of "affirmative discrimination" helped put twenty women in the Afghan Parliament, but how can they confront the warlords and criminals who hold most of the power?
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Typecast as a Terrorist
The detainment of two actors from The Road to Guantánamo reveals a legal apparatus that is no longer able to distinguish between real and invented threats.
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Afghanistan: The Other War
Christian Parenti : US Military
Despite Bush's feel-good rhetoric, the United States has done little to help Afghanistan, leaving the impression of abandonment. Meanwhile, European troops work hard to build bridges to the locals.
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Fury Over Foreigners
Christian Parenti : Islam & Muslims
Western cartoons deemed insulting to Islam are only part of what is fueling mob frenzy in Afghanistan. Growing rage against the presence of foreign troops and frustration with ineffectual aid programs are feeding the flames.
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Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan
It's appalingly clear Team Bush is unwilling to do the hard work it takes to make Afghanistan the functioning nation it was before cold war games tore it apart.
2005
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The Most Revolutionary Art Form
Can a vibrant and cosmopolitan artistic scene help heal the wounds of Afghanistan's traumatic past?
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Pattern of Deception Persists in Tillman's Death
The White House knew more than it let on as it played the Pat Tillman story for political benefit.
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A Cover-Up as Shameful as Tillman's Death
Once again, grieving relatives point out that the Bush Administration will exploit anything for political purposes.
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Afghan Poppies Bloom
Christian Parenti : Drug Policy/Drug War
The war-ravaged, opium-dependent country lives in fear of a new drug war.
2004
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Cultivating Opium, Not Democracy
Robert Scheer : Drug Policy/Drug War
Afghanistan's crop "has spread like wildfire."
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Postcard From Kabul
The Afghan presidential election was plagued with fraud and technical errors.
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What 'Democracy' Looks Like
Christian Parenti : US Foreign Policy
How free and fair is an election run by warlords?
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Letter From Afghanistan
The strange story of the Herati shelter girls shows the limits of "liberation."
2003
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Letter From Afghanistan
Scott Baldauf : War on Terrorism
Little "nation-building" is under way, and the country is on the edge of civil war.
2002
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Afghan Victims Deserve US Support
This is a case where a small amount of money can go a long way toward helping thousands and enhancing our own security.
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An Uneasy Peace
Jan Goodwin : Feminism & Women
Afghan women are free of the Taliban, but liberation is still a distant dream.
2001
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Where Are the Women?
Sara Austin : Feminism & Women
The notion that Afghan women are too depleted to play a leading role in government should be forever dispelled after Brussels.
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War Without End
Few have considered the devastating environmental consequences of the conflict in Afghanistan.
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The Other Ground Zero
It's no secret that the Taliban were tolerated by the West because they stabilized a violent country by smothering it.
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Post-Taliban Afghanistan
The rise of bin Ladenism reflects the failure of reactionary Arab states to provide for their citizens' basic needs.
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The Afghan Humanitarian Crisis
In pursuing the goal of smashing the Taliban, Washington has been remarkably cavalier about the short-term danger of mass starvation.
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Women in War
Gayle Forman : Feminism & Women
Women's participation in the peace process is crucial to insuring peace and stability for all of Afghanistan.
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Selling the Afghan War
With the air war in Afghanistan apparently bogged down, the Pentagon is trying to alter the balance of forces on the propaganda front.
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Letter From Ground Zero
Jonathan Schell : Human Rights
As the conflict heads into its sixth week, clouds of danger hang over both the US and Afghanistan.
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Bush's Uzbek Bargain
After weeks of evasion, reminiscent of two illicit lovers keen to avoid scandal, the US and Uzbekistan announced that they had made a deal.
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Where Are the Women?
Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women
Now more than ever, RAWA, which opposes both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance as violent, lawless, misogynistic and antidemocratic, deserves attention and support.
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