Ending the War in Afghanistan

04/30/2013

This Yemeni Man Loves America, Hates Al Qaeda, and Says Drone Strikes Make Them Stronger

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/this-yemeni-man-loves-america-hates-al-qaeda-and-says-drone-strikes-make-them-stronger/275248/

He described the time a Hellfire missile hit his home village in testimony before a U.S. Senate committee.

04/29/2013

C.I.A. Delivers Cash to Afghan Leader’s Office

C.I.A. Delivers Cash to Afghan Leader’s Office

Millions of dollars have flowed from the Central Intelligence Agency to the office of President Hamid Karzai, but there’s little evidence that the payments bought the influence the agency sought.

04/23/2013

Afghan girls' school feared hit by poison gas

Afghan girls' school feared hit by poison gas

TALUQAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - As many as 74 schoolgirls in Afghanistan's far north fell sick after smelling gas and were being examined for possible poisoning, local officials said on Sunday.While

04/23/2013

This disgusts me.

The Army Has Issued Anti-Suicide Nasal Spray.
Aug. 18, 2012, 1:50 AM


The military suicide rate doubled in July. That's one of our troops, almost every day.
To come up with an answer, the Army recently gave 3 million dollars to a university of Indiana research center, and those researchers came back with this: Anti-Suicide Nasal Spray.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/suicide-rates-double-in-july-army-issues-nasal-spray-2012-8#ixzz2RFALWv8F


http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_zak_trust_morality_and_oxytocin.html?source=facebook#.UXRJ44AOwhZ.facebook

04/22/2013

Officials: Six Afghan Police Killed in ‘Insider Attack’ -- News from Antiwar.com

Officials: Six Afghan Police Killed in ‘Insider Attack’ -- News from Antiwar.com

An incident of Taliban forces killing six Afghan Local Police (ALP) has been chalked up to an insider attack according to officials, who say that one of the other ALP let the Taliban into the base as the others slept, then joined them.

04/16/2013

US bomb kills 30 at Afghan wedding

US bomb kills 30 at Afghan wedding

At least 30 members of an Afghan wedding party were killed and many more wounded when a U.S. plane bombed a village in the central province of Uruzgan today, Afghan officials and residents said

04/13/2013

Three key lessons from the Obama administration's drone lies

Three key lessons from the Obama administration's drone lies

Glenn Greenwald: The axiom that political officials abuse their power and lie to the public when operating in the dark is proven yet again

04/10/2013

NATO says 2 international troops killed in helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan

NATO says 2 international troops killed in helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO says two international service members have been killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan.

04/07/2013

Ten children killed in Afghan NATO strike — RT News

Ten children killed in Afghan NATO strike — RT News

A NATO airstrike has killed at least 10 children in the East of Afghanistan, report local officials.

04/07/2013

Afghan attacks kill U.S. diplomat, soldiers, others

Afghan attacks kill U.S. diplomat, soldiers, others

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American civilian died in a separate attack in the east.The

04/06/2013

How A Female Photographer Sees Her Afghanistan : NPR

How A Female Photographer Sees Her Afghanistan : NPR

At age 13, Farzana Wahidy was beaten in the street for not wearing a burqa. To have carried a camera then would have been unthinkable. But she went on to become a pioneering photographer and, after working and studying abroad, returned to Afghanistan to "show the bigger image, not just show we have…

04/06/2013

Afghanistan says Pakistan putting conditions on Taliban peace effort, relations at new low

Afghanistan says Pakistan putting conditions on Taliban peace effort, relations at new low

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan accused Pakistan on Thursday of placing unacceptable conditions on efforts to bring peace to the country after nearly 12 years of war, the latest in a series of barbed exchanges that has sunk relations between the two neighbors to a new low.

04/06/2013

Russia rules out setting up bases in Afghanistan

Russia rules out setting up bases in Afghanistan

A top Russian military official denied reports that Russia may set up bases in Afghanistan, even while reiterating readiness to assist the Afghan armed forces. “I want to state that ...

04/05/2013

Afghanistan 2014: A look one year out - by Jim Marshall | The AfPak Channel

Afghanistan 2014: A look one year out - by Jim Marshall | The AfPak Channel

Term limits preclude Hamid Karzai from seeking re-election in the Afghan presidential election slated to occur one year from today (parliamentary elections will follow in 2015). So, for the first time since 2001, Afghanistan will soon have a new chief executive along with a new parliament, a leaders...

04/05/2013

Pilot killed in Afghanistan identified; son of retired 2-star

Pilot killed in Afghanistan identified; son of retired 2-star

The F-16 pilot killed in an April 3 crash in eastern Afghanistan was the son of retired Maj. Gen. Robert Steel, former commandant of the National War College.

04/05/2013

Dempsey: US decision on how many troops to keep in Afghanistan should wait for summer fighting

Dempsey: US decision on how many troops to keep in Afghanistan should wait for summer fighting

In order to assess the strength of Afghan government forces, the U.S. should wait until summer or later before deciding how many troops to keep in Afghanistan after the combat mission ends in De...

04/05/2013

New Zealand pulls troops out of Afghanistan

New Zealand pulls troops out of Afghanistan

New Zealand has withdrawn its small contingent of troops from Afghanistan.

04/05/2013

Report Calculates High Cost of Iraq-Afghanistan War | The Harvard Crimson

Report Calculates High Cost of Iraq-Afghanistan War | The Harvard Crimson

As the U.S. presence in Iraq and Afghanistan winds down, a recent report by Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Linda J. Bilmes ’80 predicts that the aggregate cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will fall between $4 and $6 trillion.

04/03/2013

Security Council extends mission amid calls for continued UN support

Security Council extends mission amid calls for continued UN support

04/03/2013

Taliban Kill 44 in Suicide Attack on Courtroom

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/afghan-taliban-kill-44-in-suicide-attack-on-courtroom-1.1347840

04/03/2013

Top U.S. commander talks extending Afghanistan mission

Top U.S. commander talks extending Afghanistan mission

Gen. Joseph Dunford tells CBS News' Elizabeth Palmer he lies awake at night worrying he won't provide the leadership coalition forces deserve

04/03/2013

54 killed, 90 wounded in attack on Afghan compound

54 killed, 90 wounded in attack on Afghan compound

At least 54 people were killed and 90 others wounded Wednesday in an insurgent attack on a government compound in western Afghanistan where Taliban fighters were facing trial, local officials said. Nine insurgents with explosives strapped to their bodies stormed the compound in …

04/01/2013

ISAF Commander: Afghanistan not ready to stand on its own, but will be in 2014

We've heard this all before...

On the Radar As commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, Jr. has one of the toughest jobs in the military: preparing Afghanistan to stand on its own by 2014 when the last international troops are set to pull out of the cou...

04/01/2013

Russia going back to Afghanistan? Kremlin confirms it could happen

I don't think this is an April Fools gag. I really hope it isn't.

Nearly 25 years after Soviet troops left Afghanistan in defeat, Russia may return – in order to service the Russian equipment that makes up the backbone of the Afghan military.

04/01/2013

Freedom Phoenix

04/01/2013

Removing military assets from Afghanistan to cost at least $5 billion | The Raw Story

Removing military assets from Afghanistan to cost at least $5 billion | The Raw Story

The US operation to remove military hardware and vehicles from Afghanistan as troops withdraw after 12 years of war will cost between five and six billion dollars, officials said Sunday.

04/01/2013

two new films from ornana

two new films from ornana

ornana is making movies. you can be a part of it.

04/01/2013

Iraq, Afghan wars ‘most expensive’ in US history, drained defense budget for decades — RT USA

Iraq, Afghan wars ‘most expensive’ in US history, drained defense budget for decades — RT USA

The US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will cost taxpayers up to $6 trillion, “the most expensive wars in US history,” a new report has revealed, adding that these campaigns will dominate future federal budgets “for decades to come.”

03/22/2013

Bipartisan Group Of Senators Urges Obama To End Afghanistan War

Bipartisan Group Of Senators Urges Obama To End Afghanistan War

WASHINGTON -- Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) urged President Barack Obama in a letter Wednesday to end the war in Afghanistan and provide a minimal number of U.S. troops beyond 2014. "Mr. President, our valiant men and women have fought bravely in Afghanist...

03/20/2013

McCain, Graham Press For Military Action In Syria

The war is still going on... The neocons want more and I doubt the neodems have a different opinion. When will the military adventurism stop?

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday responded to conflicting and unconfirmed reports of chemical weapons being used in Syria by increasing pressure on President Barack Obama to approve U.S. military involvement in the Middle East nation's ongoing strife. "President...

08/28/2012

Why Washington's War on Drugs in Afghanistan Isn't Working

Nothing like adding a war on top of a war

It's time to turn conventional wisdom upside down. Fighting drugs is not a precondition for security. On the contrary, security is a necessary condition for curbing drugs.

07/28/2012

Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal

Horrifying beyond belief.

If you look at only one story about the Afghan War this year, make it this one. An explosive Congressional investigation revealed horrific new details this week about a U.S. funded military hospita...

05/30/2012

The Skeptical Libertarian

Is it Vietnam yet?

05/25/2012

French combat troops to leave Afghanistan by year's end | CTV News

Smart move...

All French combat forces will pull out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, France's new president said in Kabul Friday, but some trainers will remain to help Afghanistan's nascent security forces.

04/12/2012

Afghanistan Poll: Majority Of Republicans No Longer Support War

Afghanistan Poll: Majority Of Republicans No Longer Support War

The majority of Republicans now think the war in Afghanistan was not worth fighting, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted last week. For the first time, more Republicans and Republican-leaning independents opposed the war than supported it, with 55 percent saying they considered th...