Paul Pillar, ex-CIA man and one-time national intel officer for the Middle East during the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, says we should start a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan. “If general McChrystal [the US commander in Afghanistan, Ed.] gets his way – I understand he wants 45,000 extra troops – then the US will reach the [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Former National Intel Officer for the Mid-East Wants a Phased Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Posted: September 29, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Paul Pillar
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Quetta and Meltdown: U.S. AfPak Policy Visits Crazy Town
Posted: September 28, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Andrew Exum, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, counterinsurgency, drones, Joshua Foust, Kilcullen, Pakistan, Quetta Shura, Taliban
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You can learn more about the dangers posed to U.S. national security by the war in Afghanistan by watching Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six): Security, or by visiting http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. Apparently I underestimated the U.S. government’s capacity for crazy. Last week, I [...]
UN Report: August Deadliest Month in 2009 for Civilians in Afghanistan
Posted: September 26, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, counterinsurgency, Rethink Afghanistan
(Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You can learn more about civilian casualties caused by the war in Afghanistan by watching Rethink Afghanistan (Part Four): Civilian Casualties, or by visiting http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog.) The UN Secretary General today published the latest edition of the quarterly report, The situation in [...]
Counterinsurgency Is a Mental Illness
Posted: September 21, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, counterinsurgency, Rethink Afghanistan
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You can learn more about the dangers posed to U.S. national security by the war in Afghanistan by watching Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six): Security, or by visiting http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. The insistence of a powerful group of policymakers and military commanders on [...]
Obama Administration Gets Lost, Won’t Stop and Ask for Directions. Typical.
Posted: September 19, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You can learn more about the dangers posed to U.S. national security by the war in Afghanistan by watching Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six): Security, or by visiting http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. American Public: We want to go to Kabul. How do we get [...]
United For Peace & Justice, CODEPINK, Peace Action, MADRE, and Others Push Online Petition to End the War
Posted: September 17, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, CODEPINK, MADRE, Peace Action, Rethink Afghanistan, United For Peace & Justice
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You can learn more about the dangers posed to U.S. national security by the war in Afghanistan by watching Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six): Security, or by visiting http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. United For Peace & Justice, CODEPINK, Peace Action, MADRE, and other groups [...]
Bring Back the Bad Ol’ Days
Posted: September 17, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, counterinsurgency, Dexter Filkins, insurgency, LG Group, Taliban, The Forever War
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You can learn more about the dangers posed to U.S. national security by the war in Afghanistan by watching Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six): Security, or by visiting http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. “People loved [the Taliban]–a lot of people did, anyway, at least at [...]
Sometimes, God Uses the Google
Posted: September 16, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Christian, nonviolence
So, I just Googled this quote to get the proper citation: I’m convinced that love is stronger than any other force in the world, including death. This was the result: In the time of Moses, stone tablets. Today, Google.
