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TP Articles: Afghaniscam
The recent presidential election was a spectacle of fraud; the Afghan Army, despite years of training, may hardly exist (as Ann Jones reported for this site in September); the ill-paid, ill-trained Afghan police are known to operate on the principle of corruption; and a surprisingly small percentage of foreign reconstruction funds actually makes it out of the pockets of big private contractors and western specialists, as well as security firms, and into Afghan hands.
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Posted by SKon Wednesday, November 18 @ 16:21:10 CET (236 reads)
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TP Articles: That Afghan Runoff Election
Too often, the Obama administration seems to indicate that they see the emergence of a new Afghan government under Karzai as critical to the counterinsurgency (COIN) policy that the generals are addicted to. But that's a formula for a Thirty Years' War. A new Afghan government could indeed kick start a solution there, but only if it's focused on a diplomatic and political settlement, not an escalated war.
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Posted by SKon Wednesday, October 21 @ 18:30:34 CEST (206 reads)
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TP Articles: Are Afghan Lives Worth Anything?
Will What We Don't Know (or Care to Know) Hurt Us?
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Posted by SKon Saturday, July 11 @ 19:14:52 CEST (178 reads)
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TP Articles: Becoming What We Seek to Destroy
“War always has its own logic. Once you set foot in war, you do not control it. It sucks you in.”
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Posted by SKon Tuesday, May 12 @ 13:22:01 CEST (129 reads)
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Letters: Afghanistan : New law represents staggering setback for women’s rights
FIDH calls for its immediate repeal
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Posted by SKon Wednesday, April 15 @ 15:44:26 CEST (182 reads)
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TP Articles: A Soldier’s Soul Screams ‘Get Out’
The soldier's soul has it right. This strategy won't work.
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Posted by SKon Tuesday, April 07 @ 17:30:55 CEST (138 reads)
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TP Articles: Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President
Professor Martin van Creveld of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the only non-American military historian on the U.S. Army's list of required reading for officers, has accused former president George W. Bush of "launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 BC sent his legions into Germany and lost them." Please do not feel you have to compete with your predecessor for such laurels.
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Posted by SKon Monday, March 30 @ 13:13:34 CEST (160 reads)
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The US and Afghan Tragedy
While willing to contribute billions to the war effort, the United States was far less generous in providing refugees with funding for education and other basic needs.
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Posted by SKon Friday, February 20 @ 11:30:23 CET (167 reads)
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TP Articles: Why , Still at War?
"This war is so unbalanced in so many ways, so much power on one side, so much true hatred on the other, so much technology for us, so much potential terrorism on the other, that the damages cannot be estimated. It is bad to enter a war that offers no clear avenue to conclusion. ... There will always be someone left to act as a terrorist."
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Posted by SKon Sunday, February 08 @ 12:00:00 CET (179 reads)
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TP Articles: Once More Fear Stalks the Streets of Kandahar
Barack Obama wants to send 7,000 more American troops to this disaster zone. Does he have the slightest idea what is going on in Afghanistan? For if he did, he would send 7,000 doctors.
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Posted by SKon Friday, November 21 @ 12:40:36 CET (208 reads)
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TP Articles: How to ''Win'' in Afghanistan
A Six Point Plan for the Next President
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Posted by SKon Wednesday, October 22 @ 10:50:59 CEST (235 reads)
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TP Articles: On Anniversary of Bombing Afghanistan, We Need a Surge in Diplomacy
It's time to break with the Bush war tradition.
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Posted by SKon Wednesday, October 08 @ 11:16:53 CEST (274 reads)
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TP Articles: The War to Promote Terror
"Approximately $80,000 was spent on the rehabilitation of every sea otter affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill, that is, ten times the condolence amount offered by the U.S. military to the family of an Afghan killed."
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Posted by SKon Saturday, October 04 @ 11:49:36 CEST (219 reads)
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TP Articles: Japan in Afghanistan
The Slaying of Ito Kazuya
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Posted by SKon Monday, September 08 @ 11:55:08 CEST (223 reads)
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