Leaving Afghanistan before the Job Is Done; Obama Gives Terror a PassByline: Michael Taube, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMESTaube, Michael
Leaving Afghanistan was a No-Brainer – the Rise of Illiberal Schmittian Regimes is now the big Danger to U.S. By Scott Corey | – (Special to Informed Comment) – On October of 2009, I publishedan essay on Informed Commentadvocating that the US recommit to Afghanistan, with a planned ...
The US government froze seven billion US dollars assets of the Afghan central bank on the grounds of punishing the Afghan Taliban and even claimed the "life-saving money" of the Afghan people as its own, which resulted in the deterioration of the h...
The Soviets are leavingAfghanistan. The Vietnamese are preparing to pull out of Cambodia,and an American-mediated accord will soon send 50,000 Cuban troops home from Angola. The lesson of all this was,of course,that because we're a great nation,our challenges seem complex. It will always ...
But it was another decade before American troops withdrew from Afghanistan, leaving the country depleted and in ruins. So what came out of America’s 20-year-long stay? Watch "Afghanistan after the US" on RTD website and on RT's live feed. The time of the broadcast is available on RT...
Haider Afzaly, chairman of the Defence Committee of the lower house of Afghanistan's Parliament, told CBS News that the civilian forces "are very important. They play a vital role for security of overall Afghanistan, especially in this district." ...
TheSovietshadinvadedAfghanistan. 他们违反了二战后的一项共识 TheyviolatedanunderstandingsincetheendofWorldWarII. 他们军事入侵了世界的一部分 Theyhadmovedintoapartoftheworld,militarily, 而这一部分在他们从纳粹占领中解放东欧时 thathadnotbeenpartofthespherecreated ...
The Afghanistan evacuation process was both faster and more haphazard. The rush to leave Kabul left no time to vet those seeking refuge to the United States, leaving the Afghans to come in on a humanitarian parole program. With this process, translators and lawyers are scarce. Social workers,...
He gave a brave speech about nation-building and spending all this money in Afghanistan. The vast majority of the money the US spent on that country in the subsequent 20 years was to pay for the bombs they dropped on it. The money spent on building the place up was tiny in comparison....
After all that, the last US troops to depart – some of them surely born after the 9/11 attacks – will leave parts of Afghanistan under the control of the same oppressive Taliban leaders who were there in 2001. Here is a brief attempt to bring those 20 years of war into perspective....