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

Trump's Afghan strategy is failing

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/AP/Salon)

The caliphate of Trump

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
Malala Yousafzai (Reuters/Hoda Emam)

Malala returns to Pakistani hometown

Nicole Karlis
U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, arrive at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Saturday, April 9, 2016. The U.S. Air Force says it has deployed the bombers to take part in the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State group. It is the first time the Cold War-era heavy bombers will be based in the region since the 1991 Gulf War, when they operated from neighboring Saudi Arabia. (Staff Sgt. Corey Hook/U.S. Air Force via AP) (AP)

New bombing campaign is bad theater

Phillip Smith - Alternet
Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with the United Nations Security Council (Getty/Chris Kleponis)

Trump undercuts U.S.'s Taliban strategy

Charlie May
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
(AP/John Locher/Salon)

America is a joke right now, a bad one 

D. Watkins
(AP Photo/File)

Why al-Qaida never went away

Tricia Bacon - The Conversation
(AP/William Kratzke)

9/11 and the 100-year war

Paul Rosenberg
"Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War" by Thomas J. Brennan USMC (Ret) and Finbarr O'Reilly (Penguin)

How men recover from war

Jefferson Morley - Alternet
(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Trump's Afghanistan disaster

Vijay Prashad - Alternet
In this Thursday, May 21, 2015 photo, an Afghan refugee girl walks with her goat at a camp on the outskirts of Kunduz province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. When the Taliban descended a month ago on Dam Shakh, a hamlet on the wheat-growing plains of northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz province, nobody was prepared. By the time they were beaten back for the provincial capital of Kunduz, more than 100,000 people were forced from their homes and total of 204 war-wounded were admitted to Kunduz’s only trauma hospital, run by French NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres in less than a month. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

James Mattis’s war

Simon Reich - The Conversation
In this March 27, 2017, file photo, men sit on the Nadir Khan hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan. As America’s 16-year war in Afghanistan drags on, Russia is resurrecting its own interest in the “graveyard of empires.” The jockeying includes engaging the Taliban and leading a new diplomatic effort to tackle Afghanistan’s future, all while Washington leaves the world guessing on its strategy for ending the conflict. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Doomed to fail

Alon Ben-Meir - The Globalist
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Tillerson's truth endless war

Charlie May
Brad Pitt in "War Machine"; Medics carrying a wounded US soldier to Kandahar Hospital Role, August 23, 2011. (Netflix/Getty/Johannes Eisele/Salon)

"War Machine" vs. real war

Anis Shivani
FILE - In this June 29, 2009 file photo, U.S. Army soldiers walk in a line at a reenlistment ceremony for a comrade in Baqouba, Iraq. New research published Wednesday, July 8, 2015 in JAMA Psychiatry shows war-time suicide attempts in the Army are most common in early-career enlisted soldiers who have not been deployed, while officers are less likely to try to end their lives. The study looked at data on nearly 1,000 suicide attempts among almost 1 million active-duty Army members during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, from 2004 to 2009. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File) (AP)

The folly of the surge

Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com
(Wikimedia/Deptartment of Defense)

Fortunate Son?

Charlie May
(Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudis’ den of extremism

Max Blumenthal - Alternet
In this March 27, 2017, file photo, men sit on the Nadir Khan hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan. As America’s 16-year war in Afghanistan drags on, Russia is resurrecting its own interest in the “graveyard of empires.” The jockeying includes engaging the Taliban and leading a new diplomatic effort to tackle Afghanistan’s future, all while Washington leaves the world guessing on its strategy for ending the conflict. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. Army soldiers in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. (Reuters/Baz Ratner)

Trump faces Afghan disaster

Bob Hennelly
U.S. service members pay their respects during a memorial ceremony for six Airmen killed in a suicide attack, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan (AP/Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys)

Bob Hennelly
Dana Rohrabacher (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Salon editors

Our trillion-dollar travesty

Andrew J. Bacevich - TomDispatch.com

"Homeland" made me laugh

Scott Timberg
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