Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 245)
Debating the Iraq exit
Gary Kamiya
The right claims Obama's plan vindicates Bush. The left fears Obama will continue Bush's war. Both are wrong.
Karzai won’t leave
Matthias Gebauer, Shoib Najafizada
Afghan President Hamid Karzai discovered the importance of adhering to his country's constitution at an awfully convenient political moment.
This is not George Bush’s budget
Mike Madden
Budgets are about priorities, not numbers, and President Obama's first budget marks a sea change from the past eight years.
The state of Obama is strong
Mike Madden
In a well-received speech to Congress, the president says the stimulus is working and better days are ahead.
Bowing down to the Taliban
Susanne Koelbl
Pakistan is capitulating to the Taliban in the Swat Valley, where the Islamists plan to introduce Sharia law.
Salon Radio: ACLU on Obama, Bagram and secrecy
Glenn Greenwald
What's behind the latest embrace by the Obama administration of more controversial Bush theories of executive power?
The military’s expanding waistline
Pratap Chatterjee
The U.S. military has become so dependent on outside contractors like KBR that President Obama couldn't sever ties with these corporations even if he wanted to.
Bagram prisoners have no rights?
Joan Walsh
More reasons to worry: Obama backs Bush policy on Afghanistan detainees. Plus: Read Mark Benjamin on Tony Taguba.
Binyam Mohamed, war crimes investigations, and American exceptionalism
Glenn Greenwald
The only way to argue against investigations and prosecutions of Bush officials is to reject the principles that the U.S., for decades, has imposed on other countries.
Obama orders 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan
Alex Koppelman
Making good on a campaign promise, the president is upping U.S. force levels in the country; some of the soldiers are being diverted from Iraq.
America’s imperial police force
William Astore
How did the American military become the French Foreign Legion?
Coming home: The conclusion
Mark Benjamin, Michael de Yoanna
In the final article in Salon's series, we ask what President Obama will do about the rise of suicide and murder among U.S. soldiers returning from combat.
“Kill yourself. Save us the paperwork”
Mark Benjamin, Michael de Yoanna
Pfc. Ryan Alderman, now deceased, sought medical help from the Army. He got a fistful of powerful drugs instead.
Obama fails his first test on civil liberties and accountability — resoundingly and disgracefully
Glenn Greenwald
The Obama DOJ today embraced one of the most abused Bush weapons -- the "state secrets" privilege -- in order to block torture and rendition victims from their day in court.
Death in the USA: The Army’s fatal neglect
Mark Benjamin, Michael de Yoanna
Returning U.S. combat soldiers are committing suicide and murder in alarming numbers. In a special series, Salon uncovers the habitual mistreatment behind the preventable deaths.
Various items
Glenn Greenwald
Dick Cheney's ongoing fear-mongering. The media's befuddlement over Tom Daschle. More on Obama and renditions.
The “defense cut” falsehood from The Washington Post and Robert Kagan
Glenn Greenwald
Barack Obama proposes to spend $40 billion more on defense spending this year than was spent last year. Why is he being attacked for "cutting the defense budget"?
The L.A. Times, Obama & renditions
Glenn Greenwald
A new report, celebrated by the Right, claims that Obama has ordered the Bush rendition program to continue. That report is wildly inaccurate.
Should NATO kill Afghan opium traffickers?
Susanne Koelbl
Debate rages in NATO as a top U.S. commander calls for deadly attacks on the drug mafia, not just Taliban insurgents.
Salon Radio: ACLU’s Ben Wizner on immediate Obama tests
Glenn Greenwald
On Feb. 9, in a lawsuit brought by victims of "rendition," the Obama DOJ must either embrace or reject the Bush administration's reliance on the "state secrets" privilege. What will they do?
17,000 more troops likely bound for Afghanistan
Alex Koppelman
Wednesday, President Obama will be given Pentagon plans to rapidly increase the U.S. troop presence in the country; he's expected to approve them.
Did Israel commit war crimes in Gaza?
Thomas Darnstädt, Christoph Schult
The immense number of Palestinian civilian casualties suggests that the country violated international law. But do the laws of war really govern asymmetrical conflicts like this one?
Continuing Bush policies in Israel and Afghanistan
Glenn Greenwald
As the U.S. economic crisis reportedly worsens, is there any real justification for continuing our involvement in Israel's wars and escalating our seven-year occupation of Afghanistan?
Obama’s Vietnam?
Juan Cole
Friday's airstrikes are evidence Obama will take the hard line he promised in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But he should remember what happened to another president who inherited a war.
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