Tom Friedman is ready to give up on Afghanistan: It is crunch time on Afghanistan, and we do not have the Afghan partners, the NATO allies, the domestic support, the financial resources or the national interests to justify an enlarged and prolonged nation-building effort in Afghanistan. Is the bottom line, that there’s nothing for America…
Category: Afghanistan
Afghan Muslims Riot Over Koran Rumor
A rumor that American troops burned a copy of the Koran brought hundreds of flag and photo burning Muslims into the streets of Afghanistan today. Question: Don’t these people have any actual responsibilities to keep them occupied? The answer seems self-evident, for if they had bills to pay or mortgages to meet or superiors to…
Women’s Rights Under Assault in Afghanistan
Perhaps there is little room for leaders with principles in the new Afghanistan.Even so, I would expect more from Hamid Karzai’s government than to cave into Islamofascist fundamentalists on something so, well, fundamental as a woman’s right to control when she has sex. Basic as they are, such expectations are apparently for naught in the country western blood built.
World Opinion in the Age of Hope
Hillary Clinton wasn’t greeted warmly in Barack Obama’s boyhood home of Indonesia. This picture says it all. Don Surber puts it this way: “Hope. Change. The world still hates us.” No surprise, given that nothing has really changed. Moreover, nothing can change in the space of a month or even a presidential term, regardless of…
Iraq Thankful for American Troops
Perhaps thankful is too strong of a word. Or perhaps not. 80% of Iraq’s parliament voted for a security pact that will keep American troops in that country for three more years – sounds like they’re glad to have us there. After the madness that’s been happening in Mumbai over the last 2 days and…
Cyd Mizell’s Condition Unknown
From ABC: On Monday, the police chief of Kandahar province, Sayed Agha Saqib, said police had not turned up any new information about the kidnapping. "All of our security forces and intelligence agents are trying to find them," he said. … "Nobody really knows" who the kidnappers are, [foundation director Jeff] Palmer said, adding that…
American Woman Kidnapped in Afghanistan
From the Houston Chronicle: Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early today, a provincial governor said. The two were stopped by gunmen outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, said Gov. Asadullah Khalid. He blamed the kidnappings on the "enemy of Islam and the…