Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 285)
Ominous rumblings from Mount Cheney
Joyce McGreevy
Poked and prodded by his younger opponent, Old Dick lets loose clouds of steam and ash but doesn't blow.
“Taking out Zarqawi”
Geraldine Sealey
Why are we in Iraq?
John Judis
In "The Folly of Empire," John Judis argues that Bush is repeating the imperialist mistakes committed by Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
Ready for his close-up
Tim Grieve
Will youth and beauty triumph over old age and treachery? John Edwards faces off against Dick Cheney.
American history that Bush forgot
Jeff Horwitz
New Republic senior editor John Judis talks with Salon about his new book, the Iraq war's grim precedents, and the next president's desperate need to have a heart-to-heart with Syria and Iran.
Dissecting Cheney
James K. Galbraith
The vice president's fantasy of world domination via control of oil stems from his formative years in the shadow Cold War.
The sacrificial lambs
Cathleen Miller
To satisfy the religious right, George W. Bush has punished the most vulnerable -- millions of women and girls from the world's poorest countries.
Bush repays Purple Hearts with red tape nightmare
Mark Follman
“Hopelessly flawed” interrogations
Martin Bright
A senior U.S. military intelligence officer says that information obtained from prisoners at Guantanamo has proved useless in the war on terror.
Coping with warlords and votes delivered by donkey
Ewen MacAskill
Less than a week before Afghanistan's first democratic election, organizers fear violence and hope for legitimacy.
After the euphoria
Joe Conason
John Kerry and his advisors had better not get too cocky over their victory in the first debate. They still need to shore up their weaknesses and hammer Bush harder.
Letters
Salon Staff
Salon readers, euphoric, somber, some of them Canadian, weigh in on Thursday night's presidential debate.
“He forgot Poland, Jim Bob! And Great Britain is two words!”
Joyce McGreevy
The Bush/Kerry debate in translation.
The “busting” of A.Q. Khan and other tall tales
Geraldine Sealey
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers weigh in on the cowardice of CBS, new TV ads featuring the mothers of slain U.S. soldiers, a Marine taking the battle to Bush, and more.
Marine declares war on Bush
Michelle Goldberg
Iraq war veteran Steve Brozak is running hard for Congress. And he's turning his campaign into a referendum on Bush's military folly.
Fact-checking Bush
Tim Grieve
Since the media has failed to call the president on his lies and flip-flops, Kerry must do the job in the debate.
We the moderators
Compiled by the War Room staff
"Mr. President, are you most proud of squandering the budget surplus or overseeing massive job loss?" Salon readers pose their debate questions to Bush and Kerry
Such good friends
Simon Tisdall
Bush has made numerous concessions to Pakistan's Gen. Musharraf, whom he is counting on to deliver the al-Qaida goods before the election.
Bin Laden’s candidate
Joe Conason
Serial slanderers like Dennis Hastert say terrorists want John Kerry to win. The facts say George W. Bush is al-Qaida's best recruitment tool.
“Ruthless operational commander”
Ewen MacAskill, Rory McCarthy
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the man responsible for the beheadings in Iraq, will apparently stop at nothing to create a pure Islamic zone in the Middle East.
Forgotten casualties
Lynn Harris
Mentally scarred by the horrors they've endured in Iraq, many returning U.S. soldiers say the military isn't giving them the help they deserve.
The slow-motion wreck of American values
James Carroll
How George W. Bush and his circle used the 9/11 crisis to reshape politics and culture and to launch a religious war against the entire world. An exclusive excerpt from "Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War."
The Afghan effect?
James K. Galbraith
The president can no longer blame Osama bin Laden for economic stagnation and job loss -- his war in Iraq has been abysmal for business.
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