Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tag: Afghanistan

Prince of darkness: Blackwater’s founder promotes a dangerous solution to America’s...

“I grew up around the auto industry. Customers would say to my dad, ‘We have this need.’ He would then use his own money to create prototypes to fulfill those needs. He took the ‘If you build it they will come’ approach.” —Erik Prince

Mulligan in Afghanistan

Trump applies the rules of his golf game to foreign policy.

Tread carefully

The folly of the next Afghan “surge.”

Why does Donald Trump insist on more military spending?

Americans are tired of war, yet Donald Trump’s budget sends an unfortunate but clear message.

Another troop surge in America’s longest war

100,000 troops couldn't stabilize Afghanistan. What can an extra 5,000 win, besides more casualties?

Will you enlist in Trump’s war?

If Trump can't tell us why his new strategy will work, we should tell him "No!"

Kabul bomb blast kills at least 90 people. We need to...

We may never know who is to blame, nor, sadly, are we likely to learn the names and the life stories of the victims.

The tragedy of forced displacement

The solutions to this major crisis, and indeed many of our problems, would naturally flow from the recognition of the fact that we are brothers and sisters of one humanity.

Mosul on my mind

What it really means to be on a “flattening” planet.

More U.S. troops, airstrikes could soon be headed to Afghanistan

An estimated increase of 3,000 to 5,000 soldiers may be deployed.

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