Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 218)
Afghans want foreign aid spent on their priorities
Deb Riechmann
Officials lament that money spent during the past eight years won't make a long-term difference
Ugandan toll in World Cup bombings rises to 74
Jason Straziuso, Max Delany
Somali militant group al-Shabab praises the twin bombings in Kampala, Uganda
Putting the left’s Obama “despair” in perspective
Steve Kornacki
The president's supporters expected big things and are feeling short-changed. Stop me if you've heard this before
NATO kills 6 Afghan civilians
Associated Press
Artillery fire falls short of target in Jani Khel district of Paktia province
Suicide bombers kill 62, wound 111 in Pakistan
Riaz Khan, Habib Khan
Attack shows Islamist militants remain a potent force in the northwest tribal belt, despite army offensives
3 arrested in Norway al-Qaida bombing plot
Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Ian Macdougall
Plan said to be similar to failed New York subway attack
NATO airstrike accidentally kills 5 Afghan troops
Rahim Faiez
Deaths hurt U.S. goal of coordinating and training with Afghanistan's locals
Tuesday link dump: Cause and effect
Alex Pareene
People don't like it when you kill their friends, marijuana is good for Democrats, and other important findings
Michael Steele’s job is safe
Alex Pareene
He can go ahead and embarrass the GOP as much as he likes, because it's hard to fire an RNC chairman
Military pressing charges against helicopter strike video leaker
Alex Pareene
Bradley Manning accused of unauthorized use of classified data for giving helicopter strike footage to WikiLeaks
The crux of our endless War on Terror
Glenn Greenwald
An Obama official acknowledges we're doing all this for a few hundred extremists in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Michael Steele a victim of closed Afghanistan debate
Ned Resnikoff
The incompetent RNC chairman accidentally offered a valid critique of the war -- and both parties pounced
GOP: Steele could lose job for Afghanistan war jab
Associated Press
Republican senators rebuke Steele over comments the chairman's criticism of Obama's war pursuit
Bill Kristol to Michael Steele: Resign
Steve Kornacki
Some of what the RNC chairman was caught saying about Afghanistan was crazy. But not all of it
A cycle of stupidity
Glenn Greenwald
The DNC once again invokes Rovian insults to equate dissent with lack of patriotism and opposition to The Troops
Charles Krauthammer’s propaganda
Glenn Greenwald
The Washington Post columnist engages in pure dishonesty to hide from his readers what he does not want them to see
Gen. Petraeus’ COIN jam
Ryan Devereaux
This week's Taliban attack on a NATO airfield underscored an ugly dilemma for the newly confirmed U.S. commander
“Restrepo” vs. “The Hurt Locker”
Andrew O'Hehir
The riveting new Afghan-war documentary shows us the true cost of heroism -- and the pointless cruelty of war
Americans still held captive by “zombie” lies
Gene Lyons
Figuring out the psychology of "Keep your government hands off my Medicare"
Salon exclusive: Choice plots at Arlington reserved for VIPs
Mark Benjamin
How top officials at Arlington National Cemetery violated Army guidelines -- and may have broken the law
The universality of war propaganda
Glenn Greenwald
Endless wars and acts of aggression are always justified by the same cynical morality plays
![United States Marines from Bravo Co. of the 15th MEU (Marine Expeditionary Unity) march into a barracks in full battle gear as they arrive early November 29, 2001 at the US Marines forward base in southern Afghanistan. [Already hemmed into a shrinking swath of mountain and desert by nearly eight weeks of U.S. bombing and ground offensives by their Afghan foes, the Taliban now face another threat, hundreds of U.S. Marines pouring into a remote desert airstrip within striking distance of Kandahar, their spiritual cradle.] (© Jim Hollander / Reuters)](https://www.salon.com/app/uploads/2010/06/afghanistan_has_been_artfully_ignored.jpg "Afghanistan has been artfully ignored")
Afghanistan has been artfully ignored
Jenn Kepka
Two presidents and the mainstream media have worked hard to keep the war off our minds
It takes an asteroid to show how wrong the right is
Michael Lind
If the economy was ravaged by an asteroid instead of the Wall Street collapse, would they still want spending cuts?
Afghanistan: Where theories of warfare go to die
Robert Dreyfuss
Obama, Petraeus and the cult of COIN in America's never-ending war
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