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 Center for American Progress (CAP) published a piece on just war criteria and the war in Afghanistan (we’ll come back to this, don’t worry) that paraphrased [...]
Archive for November 20, 2009
Overestimating Our Innocence in Afghanistan
Posted: November 20, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Center for American Progress, Christianity, just war criteria, Malalai Joya, Obama, Reinhold Niebuhr, Rethink Afghanistan, Tina Rife
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Karzai Cartel: Uh, Sure, We’ll Clean Up Corruption!
Posted: November 20, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Brave New Conversations, Daniel Ellsberg, Karim Khalili, Karzai, Matthew Hoh, Mohammed Qasim Fahim, Rethink Afghanistan
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You know what’s funny? Hamid Karzai, Electioneer-in-Chief, stood between these two guys, Mohammed Qasim Fahim and Karim Khalili to declare [h/t and photo credit, Wired's Danger Room blog]: Those who spread corruption should be tried and prosecuted. Corruption is a very dangerous [...]