President Obama addresses nation from Bagram Air Field on plan for ending the war in Afghanistan
President Obama will address the nation tonight from Afghanistan, discussing the new strategic partnership agreement signed today between the U.S. and Afghanistan, honoring the troops that have served in the conflict, and marking the one year ann...
Open thread for night owls: Another missed deadline in Afghanistan
Charles Glass writes regularly on world affairs. His most recent book is Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation. His most recent article is in Harper's April issue, The Warrior Class: A golden age for the freelance soldier (paywall)....
Naming names in Afghanistan
An Afghan man sits next to the covered bodies
of people who were killed in Kandahar province.
(Ahmad Nadeem/Reuters)
Think for a moment what the national conversation might be like if Staff Sgt. Robert Bales had camouflaged himself and gone out to ki...
Open Thread for Night Owls: Continuing the Afghan war accomplishes what exactly?
The Independent on Sunday has repeated its call for a rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan:
Would Afghanistan be worse off today if British forces had withdrawn from combat roles in 2010, as this newspaper proposed on Remembrance Sunday the year before? ...
Afghanische Airforce beim Drogen- und Waffenschmuggel erwischt
Kabul: Die Afganische Luftwaffe, welche vornehmlich mit Geldern aus den USA aufgebaut worden ist, wird beschuldigt, Drogen und Waffen geschmuggelt zu haben, so US-Beamte gegenüber dem Wall Street Journal. “Die Anschuldigungen sind ziemlich dramatisch und zeigen, dass Offiziere der Luftwaffe Drogen in ihren Flugzeugen transportierten und Waffen, welche nicht der Regierung gehörten, sondern privaten Gruppen”...
Open Thread for Night Owls: Looking to the exits in Afghanistan
Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse write:
Is it all over but the (anti-American) shouting—and the killing? Are the exits finally coming into view?
Sometimes, in a moment, the fog lifts, the clouds shift, and you can finally see the landscape ahead with s...
Newt Gingrich on Afghanistan: ‘Figure out how to live your own miserable life’
Newt: Afghanistan is like a wife with cancer. No, hear me out on this ...
(Jeff Haynes/Reuters)
Newt Gingrich is every bit as good a diplomat as he is a historian. Campaigning in Tennessee today, here's his suggested parting advice for the people of ...
Open Thread for Night Owls: Legacy Afghanistan
Spencer Ackerman writes:
The way out of Afghanistan for the U.S. depends on Afghan soldiers and cops’ ability to secure their own country. Yet the Pentagon is cutting funding for those Afghan forces by nearly half.
Tucked in the Pentagon’s $88.5 ...
