Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 268)
How bad is he?
Sidney Blumenthal
Bush ran as a moderate, tacked right and governed ineffectually -- before 9/11. Since then he's become the most radical American president in history -- and arguably the worst.
What we lost
Joan Walsh
Almost 3,000 Americans died on Sept. 11, 2001. But our losses are still mounting -- in Iraq and at home -- thanks to the bullying, big-lie culture that dominates American politics today.
Afghanistan’s “vice and virtue” police
Page Rockwell
A repressive Taliban institution is poised to return, with potentially dire consequences for women's rights.
What else I lost
Tristin Aaron
I thought my dear friend's death on 9/11 would be the extent of my loss that day. But his wife -- my best friend -- left my life as well.
“Maus” it’s not
Douglas Wolk
It's possible to make great nonfiction comics. Unfortunately, this adaptation of "The 9/11 Report" is as leaden as the original.
The Sept. 11 that never was
Joe Conason
ABC's docudrama "The Path to 9/11" is a false version of history. It popularizes right-wing myths by exaggerating Clinton's failures and Bush's successes, depicting events that never happened.
“We tortured an insane man”
Alex Koppelman
The author of "The One Percent Doctrine," Ron Suskind, talks about what the U.S. really got out of Abu Zubaydah and why waterboarding doesn't make America safer.
Mixed messages on torture
Mark Benjamin
While Bush was defending "tough" interrogation at one press conference, the Army was calling torture useless at another.
Down with the Iraqis
Sarah Goldstein
Scot adventurer and ex-Iraq governor Rory Stewart explains why civil war in Iraq is unlikely and corruption is sometimes necessary.
Remembrance of Bush’s fiascoes
Sidney Blumenthal
As he travels the nation to commemorate Katrina and 9/11, the president is only highlighting the tragedy of his own incompetence.
A tale of two presidents?
Tim Grieve
In yet another effort to sell the war in Iraq, the White House wants you to remember the man with the bullhorn.
The road to 9/11 and beyond
Mark Follman
In a riveting new book that ranges from ancient Mecca to the corridors of the FBI, Lawrence Wright brings to life the fanatics behind 9/11 -- and the turf wars that caused U.S. intelligence to miss it.
Bush to widow: “No point” in talking about the war
Tim Grieve
The presidents meets with families of the fallen.
Dancing on land mines
Tamim Ansary
After 9/11, I told America it couldn't bomb Afghanistan back to the Stone Age -- it was already there. Since then, the story of my country has been one step up, two steps back.
Destination: Afghanistan
Ann Marlowe
Westerners who came here in the '70s left magnificent travel writing that captured the rugged, captivating land before war tore it apart.
Donald Rumsfeld and the not-so-volunteer military
Tim Grieve
The Marines prepare to call up 2,500 reservists.
What they went through
Garrison Keillor
Our countrymen died real deaths on Sept. 11, and we need to listen to their last words.
Israel’s debacle, courtesy of Bush
Sidney Blumenthal
With U.S. support, Israeli unilateralism was unfurled. The nation's security has never been so endangered, or its moral authority so tarnished.
What America doesn’t understand
Andrew Brown
Homegrown U.K. terror is a growing threat, multicultural "tolerance" can't combat it, and the war in Iraq will only make it worse.
The U.S. is “indefensible”
Alex Koppelman
Former Bush insider Ron Suskind discusses the London bomb plot, and says the president shouldn't claim we're safer than we were before 9/11.
Sore losers
Joe Conason
Connecticut voters did what they felt was best for the country -- and should ignore the right-wing scolds who support Bush's failed policies.
Psychologists group still rocked by torture debate
Mark Benjamin
In an angry response to Salon, the American Psychological Association defends its policy on participating in terror suspects' interrogation -- as some members still push for change.
Rumsfeld and the fine art of lying
Mark Follman
The defense secretary, testifying to the Senate about the war: "I have never painted a rosy picture."
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