The Huffington Post Posted: November 5, 2009 By Sanjeev Bery It is time to set aside the notion that U.S. drone missile attacks in Pakistan are some kind of secret. The pretense of secrecy has saved Obama Administration officials from having to publicly defend the military tactic. But when Pakistani college students, think tank scholars, [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Afghanistan’
October 19, 2009
An interview worth reading: “The Real Problem in Afghanistan”
From Tufts Journal, September 23, 2009: It’s a situation Andrew Wilder, F89, F96, knows all too well. A research director for the Feinstein International Center since early 2007, he managed humanitarian aid and development programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan for 10 years … Born and raised in Pakistan, Wilder came to the United States to [...]
August 30, 2009
A response to Mr. Finel
Below is the text of my posted comment at ForeignPolicy.com responding to Bernard I. Finel’s Ten Questions about Afghanistan. America’s Moral Responsibility in Afghanistan Mr. Finel, Thank you for posing some tough questions that deserve deeper discussion. To complicate matters, I would like focus a bit more on your question six — the nature of [...]
August 30, 2009
Good questions on Afghanistan
Over at ForeignPolicy.com, Bernard I. Finel at the American Security Project asks Ten Questions about Afghanistan that deserve discussion. Here’s one: Many proponents of escalation in Afghanistan highlight the American moral obligation to the Afghan people, in particular to Afghan women certain to be oppressed by a Taliban resurgence and the large number of men [...]
April 6, 2009
The Al Qaeda two-step shuffle
Al Qaeda and the “war on terror” seem to be the ultimate linguistic props. Now you see them, now you don’t. First, the disappearance — the Washington Post reports in late March on the new name for the “war on terror”: In a memo e-mailed this week to Pentagon staff members, the Defense Department’s office [...]
April 1, 2009
“That wasn’t a date…”
Did they shake hands? Did they chat? Was there a peck on the cheek? As with all first dates, it depends on who you talk to. The New York Times reported that a pair of top diplomats from the U.S. and Iran had a polite chat at an international conference on Afghanistan this Tuesday. According [...]
March 2, 2009
McCain’s Simple Narrative
Last Wednesday, U.S. Senator John McCain gave a tough talk at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington D.C. think tank. His topic was Afghanistan. His message was that the U.S. is losing the war. The situation in Afghanistan is nowhere near as dire as it was in Iraq just two years ago … But the [...]
