In an interview with The Nation, a veteran UN envoy assesses the Obama administration’s evolving policies on Afghanistan and the role President Hamid Karzai might play.
Obama’s exit plan leaves unresolved the role of private security contractors and the residual force of as many as 50,000 troops that will remain in place.
If unemployment keeps rising and people with jobs stop spending, the atmospherics are right for a typhoon of misery on a scale of what Americans suffered in the early 1930s.