Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. The Obama White House is starting to get hip to the internally contradictory suggestions from the John Nagls of the world. From USA TODAY: [...]
Archive for October, 2009
White House Starts to Get It, Takes Up the “COIN + Illegitimacy ≠ Love” Message
Posted: October 19, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Abdullah, Afghanistan, COIN, counterinsurgency, Karzai, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan
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SecDef. Robert Gates & Friends Think Al-Qaida Has a Commitment to Truth
Posted: October 17, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Adam Rawnsley, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, COIN, counterinsurgency, propaganda, Rethink Afghanistan, Robert Gates, safe havens, Taliban
Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is showing his Bush Administration credentials by tossing around any and all justifications for continued U.S. military action in Afghanistan [...]
Al-Qaida Doesn’t Need Your Stupid Safe Havens
Posted: October 16, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, COIN, counterinsurgency, McChrystal, networks, Paul Pillar, Rethink Afghanistan, scale-free networks
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. As the president and his war council (Pollyanna asks: never a peace council?) meet to finalize the latest most updated new new new [...]
No no no no no
Posted: October 14, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: America, Constitution, idolatry, Jesus
Pretty sure my eyes are bleeding. [h/t Halden] Note how all the symbols of executive power are with Jesus, versus the systems of accountability, which are with the heathens. Also note that the Jesus who said this, 43 ‘You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.” 44But I [...]
Cursing the Darkness
Posted: October 14, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Foreign Policy Magazine, landmines, Michael Scheuer, Pakistan, Rethink Afghanistan, Taliban
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. At least Michael Scheuer’s snarling, morally bankrupt piece (oddly promoted as the front-page story on Foreign Policy Magazine‘s website) correctly diagnoses the problem [...]
John Nagl and Richard Fontaine, Hand-Waving
Posted: October 12, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, COIN, counterinsurgency, ethnic cleansing, insurgency, Iraq, John Nagl, Rethink Afghanistan, Richard Fontaine
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. Supporters of a deep investment of American blood and treasure in a long, costly and difficult counterinsurgency (COIN) campaign in Afghanistan have the [...]
Utterly Predictable, Yet Hotly Debated
Posted: October 11, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Andrew Bacevich, Bryan Bender, COIN, counterinsurgency, Rethink Afghanistan
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. The U.S. and allied forces now face insurrection all over Afghanistan. The insurgency nearly quadrupled in size since 2006, from 7,000 to 25,000 [...]
Faith in the System
Posted: October 9, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Ansary, COIN, counterinsurgency, Jesus, McChrystal, myth of redemptive violence, Nobel Peace Prize, nonviolence, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan
There are no small acts of violence. Each act is an outward manifestation of a set of assumptions, frames and beliefs, the outworking of a small set of rules in each person that, when acted upon in social and political settings, give rise to a system greater than the sum of its parts. At the [...]
Asculumistan
Posted: October 8, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Asculum, civilian deaths, Pyrrhic victory, Pyrrhus, Rethink Afghanistan, troop deaths, war costs
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. President Obama wants you to know he can be tough like Sarah Palin: President Barack Obama on Tuesday ruled out shrinking the Afghanistan [...]
Sign the act.ly Petition to End the War in Afghanistan
Posted: October 7, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: act.ly, Afghanistan, civilian casualties, Rethink Afghanistan, troop deaths, war costs
I’ve just launched an act.ly petition asking the White House to end the war in Afghanistan. Please sign it (you must have a Twitter account to do so) and forward it around to your networks. It includes an embedded section of the Rethink Afghanistan documentary and a link to Peace Action West’s Facebook vigil at [...]
