On January 15, the ACLU won a FOIA suit demanding information about the prisoners held at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. Now British journalist Andy Worthington has reproduced the list (Many of the detainees were abducted and from who-knows-where and brought to...
I'm not sure why Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D, decided to surprise everyone and announce his retirement Tuesday. I'll admit right up front that I am not an expert on North Dakota politics, nor a thorough observer of the man's nearly-30 year career (17 years in the...
(Cross posted at @TAC) I know it is a tired trope, but it's helpful to look at the ultimate success of Counterinsurgency, or the vaunted COIN doctrine dominating the popular ethos of the American military establishment, as a three-legged stool. As it is conceived, or...
From Big O's speech: [W]e have made progress on some important objectives. … In Afghanistan, we and our allies prevented the Taliban from stopping a presidential election and -- although it was marred by fraud -- that election produced a government that is...
Obama’s speech from West Point tonight may drive the final wooden stake into liberals’ hope that their guy would create a Brave New Order in Washington and the world. The fact that Obama is following in Bush’s footsteps - talking to an audience of captive...
If things run on schedule, Mr. Obama will announce tomorrow that he and his organization will be sending approximately 34,000 more U.S. troops to harass and sometimes kill men, women and children (as "collateral damage") in Afghanistan. And then he has to sell...
NPR (All Things Considered) is devoting an entire hour of programming today to the war in Afghanistan. The show was prefaced with a comment something like "We don't have all the answers." Well, I have the answer: Get out! Get out now before one more Afghan dies,...
An outrageous thing has happened today in Germany: the Defense Minister has used the word "war" to describe the, uh, war in Afghanistan. As Justin Raimondo might say: Germans are shocked -- shocked! You see, these people burdened by national collective memories of...
ORZALA ASHRAF: What would you expect from those children who lost their feet or their arm or their mother or their father during that kind of bombing? What would you expect from them? Do you expect them to join the peace process? Do you expect them to say, “I have...
So, more British soldiers have now been killed in Afghanistan than in Iraq. Why are British troops in Afghanistan? We know why American forces are in Afghanistan--to fight the Taliban terrorists "over there" so we don't have to fight them "over here,"Â to find Osama...
