Tag: Afghanistan

Special ops, generational struggle, and the Cooperstown of commandos.

It may seem cynical to say so, but after almost 18 years of occupation, it sometimes seems that an entire country, one of the poorest in the world, has been turned into a kind of live fire training ground for U.S. and allied forces.

"We attack them not for what they do but because we see them as being different from us. We must eradicate them to save ourselves."

In many countries, covering up war crimes would itself merit prosecution; in Washington, it earns a promotion.

Bad as things are right now, experience tells us – or at least our military commanders swear to it – that they’ll get better sooner or later.

2018 will mark the 17th year of the Afghanistan war.

Pakistan and Afghanistan can reverse the mistakes of the last forty years and endeavor to create a new future of cooperation, peace and prosperity.

How a failed drug war will defeat Trump’s Afghan adventure

Out everywhere and winning nowhere.

In America’s wars, failure is the new success.