Unemployment and the Afghan Debate
GRIT TV : U.S. Economy
The Nation's John Nichols discuss the correlation between the low unemployment numbers and our foreign policy.
2009
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Outrage Over US Funding the Taliban
The Ed Show
Brave New Films founder Robert Greenwald praises Aram Roston's shocking new Nation piece on how the US funds the Taliban.
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New Report Reveals US Funds the Taliban
Democracy Now : Terrorism
Nation contributor Aram Roston on how the US government is financing the very same insurgent forces in Afghanistan that American and NATO soldiers are fighting.
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A Year of Obama
Alexander Cockburn : Barack Obama
Since the president took office, his administration has yielded one surrender after another.
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The Fifty-Year War
Jonathan Schell : Vietnam War
We learned so much, at such cost, in Vietnam. Why must we learn it all again in Afghanistan?
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How the US Funds the Taliban
Aram Roston : Taliban
With Pentagon cash, contractors bribe insurgents not to attack supply lines for US troops
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Drone Race to a Known Future
Tom Engelhardt : Arms Spending & Proliferation
Armed drone aircraft in Afghanistan and Pakistan are only the latest wonder weapon to promise us the world.
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Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy
Robert Scheer
The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 US troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.
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Afghanistan: Too Big to Fail?
Tom Engelhardt
Why do America's leaders always opt for "more" in counterinsurgency disasters rather than cutting their losses?
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The Best Wall of Defense
Mosharraf Zaidi : Pakistan
The most dependable guarantor of Pakistani stability isn't a troop buildup in Afghanistan; it's Pakistan's emerging middle class.
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Paranoia Over Pakistan
Manan Ahmed : Pakistan
Is Pakistan really in danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban?
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Attack of the Drones
Priya Satia : Civilian Casualties
Airstrikes, manned or unmanned, regulated or not, cannot build a better Afghan future.
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The Ethnic Split
Selig S. Harrison : Afghanistan
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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The 'Safe Haven' Myth
John Mueller : Al Qaeda
If we leave Afghanistan, Al Qaeda will be in no position to re-establish a base there.
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High Cost, Low Odds
Stephen M. Walt
Staying in Afghanistan will cost many more American soldiers' lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Is it worth it?
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Afghanistan: A Special Issue
The essays in our forum call into question many of the myths and faulty assumptions about the best course of US policy in Afghanistan.
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