Afghanistan

2009

• Why Is the US Paying Off the Taliban?

  MSNBC : US Military

  The Nation's Jeremy Scahill appears on MSNBC to discuss his colleague Aram Roston's new investigation into how the US funds the Taliban.

• Preparing Undeployables for the Afghan Front

  Dahr Jamail & Sarah Lazare

  Under the Ft. Hood headlines, a stressed-out Army pushes stressed-out soldiers back into the war zones.

• The Ethnic Split

  Selig S. Harrison : Afghanistan War

  The tenacity of the Taliban insurgency is rooted in opposition to a foreign occupation that is particularly distasteful to the Pashtuns.

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  Remember the Women?

  Ann Jones : Afghanistan War

  Women belong at the center of the debate over the Afghan war, not on the margins.

• Al Qaeda in Afghanistan

  Greg Kaufmann

  At a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, former CIA officers offered clear alternatives to escalation in Afghanistan.

• Arrest Warrant Out for USAID Contractor in Afghanistan

  Aram Roston

  While corruption by the Afghan government has been widely condemned, corruption by Western officials in Afghanistan has received little if any scrutiny.

• Meet the Afghan Army

  Ann Jones : Afghanistan War

  Whatever the debate in Washington, Congressional and military scenarios for training a vast Afghan Army will never come true.

• Afghan War Turnoff

  The Editors : Afghanistan War

  Trust the judgment of the American majority, who say this war is no longer worth fighting.

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  Abdullah Abdullah's Unmentioned History

  Barbara Crossette

  Abdullah Abdullah exemplifies a political chameleon in a country tortured by wars and violence.

• Ballots and Bullets for Afghanistan

  Ann Jones

  The upcoming election promises to be a farce, marred by backroom deals and voter fraud. Meanwhile, the United States continues to militarize Afghanistan at an alarming rate.

• Afghanistan Is Based on Lies and Illusions

  Ann Jones : Film

  The new film The Fixer, featuring The Nation's Christian Parenti, captures some edgy, fearful truths about the war in Afghanistan.

• MoveOn Resumes Antiwar Stance

  Tom Hayden : Peace Activism

  After months of silence on peace issues, MoveOn is mobilizing its members to demand an exit strategy for Afghanistan.

• Will Afghanistan Be Obama's Vietnam?

  VideoNation

  The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel weighs in on the danger Afghanistan poses to Obama's progressive agenda.

• The Silence of MoveOn

  Tom Hayden : Pakistan

  MoveOn, once the most powerful grassroots peace organization, has rendered its members voiceless on the expanding wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And that silence sends a message.

• Pakistan's Missing Peace

  Graham Usher : US Foreign Policy

  There's a hole in the heart of our Af-Pak policy. It's called peace between Pakistan and India. And no amount of aid will fill it.

• 94 Billion Reasons to Rethink Afghanistan

  Brave New Films

  As Afghan civilians die from US air strikes, Congress should rethink a bill that would be a blank check for expanding military operations.

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  The Politics of Escalation

  Tom Hayden & Joseph Gerson

  Democrats in Congress are quashing criticism of military escalation in Afghanistan and Pakistan.