Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 231)
A new report questions “suicides” at Guantanamo
Glenn Greenwald
Why is the Obama DOJ attempting to block judicial review of three highly suspicious deaths?
Where is Osama?
Associated Press
Conflicting opinions from the administration about whether we know where is -- or don't
The best-case Afghanistan scenario
Joe Conason
Obama's plan may try to force rapid reconciliation among the country's warring factions
Muslim Obama hates “Charlie Brown”?
Alex Koppelman
A Tennessee mayor thinks he knows exactly why the president spoke about Afghanistan when he did
Pakistan, Taliban say bin Laden may be in Afghanistan
Juan Cole
Where should the U.S. even be looking for the terrorist leader?
Do Obama officials know what his Afghanistan plan is?
Glenn Greenwald
Why are key aides contradicting each other on a central point? Plus: My TV debate with Christopher Hitchens
U.S. Marines launch offensive in Afghanistan
ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU
Bid to disrupt Taliban supply, communications lines is first since Obama's speech
Suicide attackers kill 35 at Pakistan mosque
Asif Shahzad
Small majority approves of Obama’s Afghanistan plan
Alex Koppelman
Just 51 percent say they agree with the president's decision; there's some good news for him, though
Rumsfeld responds to Obama speech
Alex Koppelman
Former defense secretary challenges one of the president's assertions about the Bush administration and Afghanistan
“Brothers”: A wartime romance for our turbulent era
Stephanie Zacharek
Jake Gyllenhaal shines in an undeniably grown-up movie about love and loss in the shadow of Afghanistan
The poster boy for progressive self-delusion
Joan Walsh
Read Hayden's 2008 Obama endorsement to remember the way the left sold our centrist president to itself
Hayden: “Time to strip the Obama sticker off my car”
Alex Koppelman
Old-school liberal says the president's decision on Afghanistan is the last straw
Dems rush to abandon Obama
Alex Koppelman
The president's new approach to the war in Afghanistan draws heavy fire from his own party
NATO: Allies will provide 5,000 more troops
Slobodan Lekic, Deborah Seward
Pledges of additional troops came in small numbers from small nations
The commendably missing element from Obama’s speech
Glenn Greenwald
There was no pretense that human rights is our goal, or the likely outcome, in escalating the war
Obama’s surge: Has the president been misled by the Iraq analogy?
Juan Cole
Good timing made Bush's surge look successful. Obama will probably enjoy no such luck
Obama announces, defends Afghanistan surge
Alex Koppelman
The president spent much of his speech about additional troops he's sending to the war on the defensive
Yes, it’s Obama’s war now
Joan Walsh
An uninspiring speech sells a dubious policy, but progressives who feel betrayed have only themselves to blame
“Afghanistan is not lost, but … it has moved backwards”
Salon Staff
The full text of President Obama's Dec. 1 speech about his plan to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to the war
White House talking “surge” in Afghanistan
Alex Koppelman
The administration adopts its predecessor's favorite term, and says the president won't set a firm withdrawal date
30,000 more troops headed to Afghanistan
Alex Koppelman
The final numbers are out in advance of President Obama's speech Tuesday night
No one at the wheel in Afghanistan
Juan Cole
A fraudulently elected president is presiding over an empty cabinet, while the parliament plays hooky
Obama’s exceedingly familiar justifications for escalation
Glenn Greenwald
The "new" approach to Afghanistan touted by White House officials seems quite old
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