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Topic: Afghanistan War (page 2)

Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on April 11, 2019 in London, England. (Getty/Jack Taylor)

Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in prison

Shira Tarlo
Vladimir Putin; Julian Assange; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Assange and the future of democracy

Andrew O'Hehir
Elizabeth Warren; Bernie Sanders (Getty/AP/Photo Montage by Salon)

An end to "endless war"?

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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America needs a new national story

Jim Sleeper
Afghan Taliban fighters (Getty/Javed Tanveer)

Afghan war may finally end

Matthew Rozsa
In this Sunday, March 19, 2017 photo, children play in their home in Kabul, Afghanistan. An aid group said Wednesday, March 22, 2017 that nearly a third of all children in war-torn Afghanistan are unable to attend school, leaving them at increased risk of child labor, recruitment by armed groups, early marriage and other forms of exploitation. (AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini) (AP)

“The bleeding wound”

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
Mike Pompeo; John Bolton; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

God help us, Trump is right about Syria

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Security personnel arrived at the site of a deadly suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2018. (AP/Salon)

Trump will halve troops in Afghanistan

Nicole Karlis
A U.S. Army soldier stands by Iraqi's Oil Ministry after it was hit by missiles, November 21, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Global war to infinity and beyond

Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com
William H. McRaven; Donald Trump (Getty/Salon)

Trump ignores the troops on Thanksgiving

Lucian K. Truscott IV
U.S. Marines at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP/Massoud Hossaini)

The stories war tells me

Rory Fanning - TomDispatch.com
US Army soldiers investigate the site of an explosion, January 18, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq (Getty/Mario Tama)

Why US persists in waging losing wars

William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com
An anti-Muslim ban rally (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Hating Muslims in the Age of Trump

Juan Cole - TomDispatch.com
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The caliphate of Trump

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
(Getty/Joe Raedle/Chris Hondros)

War and the imperial presidency

Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com
FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept 11, 2007 file picture, plumes of fire and smoke fill the sky after a suicide car bomb explosion which hit fuel tanker trucks on the main highway of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq, File) (AP)

Why the U.S. military can't win its wars

Arnold R. Isaacs - TomDispatch.com
(Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Military tourism is not a foreign policy

Lucian K. Truscott IV
In this May 2004 photo, a group gathers around a GBU-43B, or massive ordnance air blast (MOAB) weapon, on display at the Air Force Armament Museum on Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso, Fla. U.S. forces in Afghanistan struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, April 13, 2017, with a GBU-43B, the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said. (Mark Kulaw/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP) (AP)

Our experiment has failed in Afghanistan

Vijay Prashad - Alternet
(AP/David Zalubowski)

"We regret to inform you"

Brian Castner
Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with the United Nations Security Council (Getty/Chris Kleponis)

Trump undercuts U.S.'s Taliban strategy

Charlie May
Burn pit in Afghanistan (Getty/Andrew Burton)

Beau Biden and the burn pits

Joseph Hickman
U.S. Marines at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP/Massoud Hossaini)

Our troops have been forgotten by Trump

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Men bury a victim of a suicide attack on the Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. (AP)

Into the Afghan abyss (again)

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
An US soldier waits in front of a tank type 'M1A2 SEP' (Getty/Christof Stache)

Congress’s romance with cowardice

Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com
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