Comments on: The Suffocated Thousands

By: Lost in the Afghan Labyrinth « Return Good for Evil

Lost in the Afghan Labyrinth « Return Good for Evil — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:56:07 +0000

[...] two being Hamid Karzai’s vice-presidential nominees in the ongoing election!), not to mention General Abdul Rashid Dostum, all of whom got amnesty for their war crimes thanks to a measure Mohaqiq rammed through the Afghan [...]

By: Faith in the System « Return Good for Evil

Faith in the System « Return Good for Evil — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:54:23 +0000

[...] with some caveats: it’s not just the Taliban who buried/buries people in mass graves–our allies do likewise. And as far as the Taliban killing women for being women, well, the mob we’ve backed in Kabul [...]

By: Apologies « Get Afghanistan Right

Apologies « Get Afghanistan Right — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:07:19 +0000

[...] by General Dostum, who was a CIA asset at the time, please listen. I wrote about this story several months ago, but that was before it was clear that the U.S. government participated in a cover-up of the [...]

By: Apologies « Return Good for Evil

Apologies « Return Good for Evil — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:32:09 +0000

By: Get Afghanistan Right Week « Return Good for Evil

Get Afghanistan Right Week « Return Good for Evil — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:56:48 +0000

[...] The Suffocated Thousands [...]

By: Wise Men in Afghanistan « Return Good for Evil

Wise Men in Afghanistan « Return Good for Evil — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:01:45 +0000

[...] Current U.S. strategy considers Afghanistan to be the battlefield, and battlefields by their nature are not condusive to development. This is an important point to keep in mind because supporters of escalation in Afghanistan often claim that “security” (read: an Afghanistan pacified by the U.S. military) is a prerequisite for humanitarian intervention. The question assumes the status quo is preferable to a less-militarized option for humanitarian reasons. It isn’t. [...]