Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 326)
Bomb them with butter
Joe Conason
In addition to limited military action against bin Laden, the U.S. should blanket Afghanistan with food, clothing and medicine.
Salon’s war reader
Compiled by Anthony York
Don't know much about Central Asian history? Osama bin Laden? The Web provides a crash course in what's needed to understand "America's new war."
The Central Asian chess game
Steve Kettmann
If the United States goes to war in Afghanistan, it will need the cooperation of former Soviet republics.
Dispatches from Afghanistan
Douglas Cruickshank
Like Vietnam chronicler Michael Herr, Russian journalist Artyom Borovik captured the hallucinatory hell of war -- but these days it's Borovik's account of Afghanistan that seems the most relevant.
Terror’s first victims
Janelle Brown
When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer.
The fatwa against Bill Maher
Arianna Huffington
Politically correct TV executives and advertisers are rushing to censor the talk show host for exercising his right to free speech.
Solidarity forever?
Steve Kettmann
At an emergency meeting, European leaders back a "targeted" campaign against terrorism and applaud Bush's new internationalism.
Blasts from the past
Ken Silverstein
The weaponry the Taliban could turn on us may be our own, the relics of a $7 billion Cold War campaign.
How big a war?
Anthony York
Hawk Paul Wolfowitz wants the U.S. to attack Iraq. Colin Powell doesn't -- and nobody knows who has Bush's ear.
It isn’t just “freedom” they hate
Sara Pursley
Those who rained terror upon the U.S. may have had real grievances -- and we shouldn't feel guilty about discussing them.
Anger in the bazaars of Peshawar
Sean Kenny
The Taliban has strong support in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. If there is civil war, it will start here.
Networks of terror
John Leonard
As television hypes the coming war, the nation watches passively. Stunned by grief, we've shut ourselves up.
Will the war on terrorism be a recession buster?
Katharine Mieszkowski
Some economists are predicting that an upcoming flood of government spending will kick-start a flagging economy.
No more high heels
Janet Fitch
Go ahead, rip up my luggage and take down my license plate number. Life is newly serious after Sept. 11, and I want to feel it.
What Bush didn’t say
Bruce Shapiro
He didn't compare his war strategy to its real predecessor: The War on Drugs. And he made no offers of building an international coalition.
“The golden age of intelligence is before us”
Laura Rozen
Robert Kaplan says fighting terrorism will
require new rules for spying, but he
predicts that fighting an "almost comic book evil" will lead to a revival.
How the U.S. will fight
Anthony York, Damien Cave
A combination of special forces, lethal stealth, diplomacy and old-fashioned military power will be used to battle terrorists.
How not to understand the enemy
Eric Boehlert
A joint Discovery Channel-BBC documentary on terrorism fails to provide the insight Americans so desperately need.
Hunting Osama
Max Garrone
The author of "Black Hawk Down" and "Killing Pablo" says that American special forces have been training to go after bin Laden for years and are more than ready.
The “enemy” we barely know
Laura Miller
A writer who has traveled extensively in Afghanistan talks about how little we understand its people, how dangerous it is to underestimate them and why they have cause to resent the U.S.
The war economy
Katharine Mieszkowski
What will be the fiscal impact of the campaign to extirpate terrorism?
Welcome to the death zone
Tom Carew
The U.S. can't win a ground war in Afghanistan, says a British special forces officer who helped train the mujahedin.
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