If you only read the first paragraph of this Jim Michaels’ USA TODAY story, you might walk away with a nice feeling about civic life in Afghanistan: KABUL — U.S. and Afghan officials have agreed on a new nationwide strategy that will funnel millions of dollars in foreign aid to villages that organize “neighborhood watch”-like [...]
Archive for November, 2009
I Hope My Neighborhood Watch Doesn’t Use Kalashnikovs…
Posted: November 14, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian-based defense, Community Defense Initiative, El Guapo, Jim Michaels, nonviolence, Rethink Afghanistan, Three Amigos, USA TODAY
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Veterans Group Tells President Obama: Don’t Escalate in Afghanistan
Posted: November 12, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan, Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan
Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan is gathering signatures for a simple message they plan to deliver to the White House: Don’t escalate. Here’s the text of the petition, which you can sign at the Rethink Afghanistan website: Dear President Obama, News reports indicate that you plan to send between 34,000 and 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan. [...]
Hope?
Posted: November 12, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Karl Eikenberry, Obama
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. Two very hopeful stories (well, actually one story in two different forms) broke this evening that show that the non-escalation factions in the Obama Administration can play [...]
The Death Star Strategy in Afghanistan
Posted: November 10, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Cesar Chavez, Death Star, escalation, Jesus of Nazareth, Martin Luther King, McChrystal, Obama, Reinhold Niebuhr, to Gandhi, troop increase
The last few hours have been a flurry of news reports on the President’s supposed decision on troop levels for Afghanistan. First, CBS News reported that the president planned to send roughly 40,000 troops to Afghanistan for about four years. Then, CNN reported that the White House angrily denied CBS News’ assertions, with two unnamed [...]
Nonviolence Training in Austin Concludes
Posted: November 10, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Creating a Culture of Peace, nonviolence, nonviolence training, St. Matt's Austin
This has been a great week. From Thursday – Sunday, I co-facilitated a Creating a Culture of Peace nonviolence training for four participants at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas. It was a wonderful experience, and I hope to repeat it again very soon. The attendees worked hard and made it through a difficult [...]
