Afghanistan War: Can the US Gains Last?Almost 11 years into the US-led war in Afghanistan, the situationstill remains so tenuous in...Peter, Tom A
The fact is the war in Afghanistan did not need to be fought. We could have ended the threat posed by Bin Laden simply by negotiating with the Taliban in the aftermath of 9/11, providing the evidence we claimed to have linking Bin Laden to the terrorist attacks on the United States. An...
KABUL, Afghanistan - The United States on Monday completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a frantic final exit that cost the lives of more than 180 ...
Recriminations are flying back and forth– who lost Afghanistan is the latest version of who lost Vietnam, Iraq and, for those with long memories, all the way back to 1949 and “who lost China.” What America has lost is, I believe, the capacity to learn, to learn from history and fr...
There is almost no doubt that the U.S can inflict a crushing defeat on Iran – it will win the war, but not the peace. This is what happened in Afghanistan, Libya, even in Iraq. President George W. Bush heavily heavily on the fifth column in the face of corrupt senior commanders who...
Beijing now has a key opportunity to demonstrate the stark contrast between its brand of foreign policy and Washington’s through its own plan to aid in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. A Global Times piece titled, “China to offer ‘genuine’ aid in A
Here is a look at the current situation for the approximately 2,500 U.S. service members in Afghanistan and what has transpired over the last 20 years.
a shambolic Libyan society and economy, and a war-ravaged Afghanistan now ruled by the Taliban, whose eradication the US had promised while invading the country in 2001. Yet the US does not see the chaotic and tragic developments as a defeat or debacle of its "global democracy spreading" cam...
a shambolic Libyan society and economy, and a war-ravaged Afghanistan now ruled by the Taliban, whose eradication the US had promised while invading the country in 2001. Yet the US does not see the chaotic and tragic developments as a defeat or debacle of its "global democracy spreading" cam...
[Was that what 911 was all about?...To entice public opinion in favor of the Patriot Act(s), Homeland Security, and to bring Afghanistan and Irag under the rule of the New World Order] "Simply put, freedom is the absence of government coercion."--Ron Paul (United States Representative...