The fundamentals of radical, transnational counterinsurgency
Counterinsurgency doctrine is the symptom of an idea more primeval and dangerous: violence is the solution.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Tag Anti-war
Rethink Afghanistan: Broken Government’s Body Count
The government is broken, in Afghanistan and the United States, and if we don't use government the way it's supposed to function, if we continue to play media games with our politics, the death toll will only get worse.
Election 2010: “Lefty Insurgents” and the phony revolution
Today's elections have nothing to do with throwing out incumbents and everything to do with affirming the status quo. Not a single candidate who opposes the war in Afghanistan is expected to win. It will take a lot more than partisan primaries to end the war.
General McChrystal has no idea what’s going on in Afghanistan
McChrystal and Eikenberry's plan for measuring progress is absolutely required if we care at all about the truth in Afghanistan. However, the variable in this plan is not necessarily the ability to produce these assessments, but access to the reliable, accurate information sources which provide the backbone of these assessments.
Mujahideen Victory Day: Afghans still voiceless decades later
A US withdrawal does not mean abandoning the Afghans. Afghanistan suffers from too much foreign meddling, not a lack of it. And through all of it, the Afghans themselves remain completely helpless to the fate of their own country.