Anti-War, at Home and Abroad

The state of the Anti-War movement in the United States and Pakistan, and the consequences for politicians in 2010. [...]

Rethink Afghanistan: ISI and Pakistan Army Kill Americans

According to intelligence reports, Pakistan Army and ISI, their spy service, are directly involved with supporting, plotting, and carrying out attacks on American soldiers. [...]

General Kayani’s “Silent Coup” in Pakistan: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

What are the consequences of General Kayani’s 3 year extension for the US war in Afghanistan? [...]

Individual acts and the collapse of Pakistan

What led to the misery and instability in Afghanistan and Pakistan? And more importantly, what will end it? [...]

Afghanistan: No “opportunity and justice” without free expression

Afghanistan needs a free press, not only for the sake of their journalists’ lives, but it’s absolutely fundamental to improving their government, their laws, and their society as whole. [...]

Pakistan’s “Strategic Depth” and endless war in Afghanistan

Pakistan’s national security policy of supporting terrorist groups and militias as proxies against India, known as “strategic depth,” is accelerating out of control, and they are either deliberately or inadvertently engineering a globalized religious war, a Clash of Civilizations. If pressure on congress is not increased, if the US remains on the slow, ambiguous timetable it is on now, it will be caught right in the middle of this clash. [...]

What’s worse: Steele’s Afghanistan comments or the reaction?

Chairman of the Republican Party Michael Steele made some awkward comments about Obama’s policy in Afghanistan, irking the right wing. With reaction from the left no better, we see that the War in Afghanistan is simply not a left/right issue at all. [...]

All politics is local: Al-Qa’eda and the Afghanistan War

As pressure to end the war builds in Washington, supporters of the war in Afghanistan will invariably return to their strongest argument: the threat of Al-Qa’eda. However, a reasonable understanding of the terrorist organization shows that even Al-Qa’eda is not enough to justify a bloody and expensive occupation. [...]

Afghanistan war. ‘We’re f’ing losing this thing.’

From Brave New Films listserv. Full info on their Facebook Rethink Afghanistan page.

With all the drama around General McChrystal’s resignation, the media missed the real story in the explosive Rolling Stone article:

“…[W]e’re f****ing losing this thing.” –Staff Sergeant Kennith Hicks

Administration officials are frantically trying to reassure Congress and the [...]

McChrystal’s revenge: Everyone hates Karl Eikenberry

In the wake of General McChrystal’s firing, supporters of his counterinsurgency strategy have shifted to the blame game. Their target? US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry. But is Eikenberry really at fault, or has he been right all along? [...]