Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 295)
“We stood by while this happened”
Suzy Hansen
Author Steve Coll discusses "Ghost Wars," his new book about how the U.S. abandoned Afghanistan, tried to work with the Taliban, and failed to stop Osama bin Laden -- even though terrified CIA agents knew he was about to strike.
Shielding Murder Inc.
Arianna Huffington
Bush's support of the latest immoral gun bill shows once again just how willing he is to do the bidding of the NRA -- even if it means sabotaging homeland security.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Sullivan declares war on Bush over same-sex marriage; Steyn says John Kerry would flounder if terrorists blew up the Empire State Building. Plus: Osama under U.S. surveillance?
“Civilization and Its Enemies” by Lee Harris
Ann Marlowe
In a brilliant response to the quandaries of 9/11, a ferociously independent thinker argues that only the United States has the moral credibility to lead.
The partisan “mastermind” in charge of Bush’s intel probe
Michelle Goldberg
Whenever there's a vast right-wing conspiracy, Judge Laurence Silberman keeps turning up.
Rumsfeld defends Iraq war at NATO meeting
Robert Burns
“Osama”
Stephanie Zacharek
The first feature film made in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban -- about a young girl who dresses as a boy to survive -- rings devastatingly true.
Tit for tat
Charles Taylor
How Justin Timberlake accomplished what the president hasn't been able to: Bring us closer to our fundamentalist brothers.
The Democrats’ Southern paradox
Tim Grieve
In the South, black voters may want Anybody but Bush, but whites like what they see in the president -- themselves. It's up to the Democrats to convince them otherwise.
“An End to Evil” by David Frum and Richard Perle
Gary Kamiya
Undaunted by the Iraq debacle, uber-hawks David Frum and Richard Perle air their fevered wet dream of a national-security superstate that slaps down uppity Muslims, bombs North Korea, slices and dices civil liberties and scatters the Palestinians like birdseed.
Enter the ayatollahs
Jen Banbury
Will Iraq turn into an Iranian-style theocracy or a more tolerant Muslim state? As zero hour for America's grand experiment approaches, Shiite leaders hold the key.
Friday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
The Bush dynasty’s dark magic
Joan Walsh
One-time Republican hero Kevin Phillips dares to speak up against the Walker-Bush oligarchy that rules the American state through oil, intelligence, big money and the power of the Christian right.
The CIA revolt against the White House
Mark Follman
Former intelligence official Larry C. Johnson blasts the Bush administration's "outright pattern of bullying."
Some perspective
Geraldine Sealey
Bush leaves no bride behind
Arianna Huffington
We have 12 million uninsured children and record-breaking deficits -- and the president's boldest domestic initiative is the promotion of matrimonial bliss?
The latest White House script for reporters
Rich Procter
Howard Dean is so angry! He has no credibility on foreign policy! He wants to take away your grenade launcher!
The Axis of War: Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz
Salon Staff
Sen. Ted Kennedy: "We cannot simply walk away from the wreckage of a war we never should have fought so that President Bush can wage a political campaign based on dubious boasts of success."
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's assertions have stung the White House, but no one there says he's lying.
A simple, poetic indictment
Michelle Goldberg
The winner of MoveOn.org's "Bush in 30 Seconds" contest is a subtle ad with the power to sway even some of his defenders. Now the ad may be headed for the Super Bowl.
Bush’s “unsustainable” war on terror
Salon Staff
A military scholar says that conflating al-Qaida and Iraq, and setting the impossible goal of ending terrorism, "violates fundamental strategic principles" -- and could strain the U.S. military to the breaking point.
Winning the battle against terror, losing the war of ideas
Ferry Biedermann
The Bush administration is good at bombing terrorists back to the Stone Age, but terrible at bringing Arabs and Muslims into the modern age.
Letters
Salon Staff
"Welcome to the dawning of a new age of air travel!" Readers respond to Andrew Leonard's "Five O'Clock Shadow? You're a Marked Man!"
Reinventing triangulation
Sidney Blumenthal
Every time Dean makes an artless comment his opponents see blood in the water. Paradoxically, their attacks only bolster his campaign.
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