Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. The views expressed are his own. Sign our CREDO petition to reject escalation in Afghanistan & join Brave New Foundation’s #NoWar candlelight vigil on Facebook and Twitter. But make these your first steps as an activist to end this war, not [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Civilian Deaths Increase in Afghanistan, Again
Posted: December 29, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, Rethink Afghanistan, UNAMA, United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan
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Afghanistan Escalation Will (and Should) Hurt Congressional Democrats in 2010
Posted: December 26, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: 2010 elections, Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan
In a midterm election, you live or die by your base. The party that motivates its base to donate, volunteer and vote more effectively than the other will pick up seats in Congress. Unfortunately for Democratic incumbents, their base opposes the president’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan and wants troops brought home faster [...]
Tear the Sky Apart with Light
Posted: December 25, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Christmas, Jesus, peace
Before the marvel of this night adoring fold your wings and bow, then tear the sky apart with light and with your news the world endow, proclaim the birth of Christ and peace, that fear and death and sorrow cease. Sing peace, sing peace, sing gift of peace, sing peace, sing gift of peace. … [...]
A Child Is Born
Posted: December 25, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Christianity, Christmas, Jesus, nonviolence
For all the boots of the tramping warriors and all the garments rolled in blood shall be burned as fuel for the fire. For a child as been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah [...]
Afghan Youth Call for Peace
Posted: December 22, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, nonviolence, Our Journey To Smile, peace
Our Journey To Smile just published a new video showing Afghan youth calling for peace. Check it out: Hakim with Our Journey To Smile is a semi-regular commenter on Return Good for Evil. This is great work, Hakim. Keep it up.
NATO Airstrike Kills Another Three Civilians
Posted: December 18, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, Helmand, ISAF, Kandahar, NATO, Operation Khanjar, Rethink Afghanistan, Taliban, war in Afghanistan
AFP reports that a NATO airstrike from a helicopter gunship killed three civilian men and wounded a woman in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force’s (ISAF) press release claims the helicopter crew fired at men placing IEDs next to the road and afterwards “discovered civilians in a car adjacent to the IED site.” [...]
A 6-Month-Old Blog Post is Burning Up My Comment Feed
Posted: December 16, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: air strikes, airstrikes, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, drones
You might as well join in.
Contemplation of Drone Strikes in Quetta Belies Obama’s Claim of Just War
Posted: December 14, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Andrew Exum, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, David Kilcullen, drones, Katherine Tiedemann, Peter Bergen, Quetta, Quetta Shura, Rethink Afghanistan, Union Square
Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. The views expressed are his own. Sign our CREDO petition to reject escalation in Afghanistan & join Brave New Foundation’s #NoWar candlelight vigil on Facebook and Twitter. But make these your first steps as an activist to end this war, not [...]
President Obama Disgraced Himself at Nobel Ceremony
Posted: December 12, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King, myth of redemptive violence, Nobel prize, nonviolence, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan, Sermon on the Mount
Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. The views expressed are his own. Say no to escalation in Afghanistan by signing our CREDO petition at http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/saynotoescalation/. Join Brave New Foundation’s #NoWar candlelight vigil on Facebook and Twitter to show your opposition to the war. But make these your [...]
Democrats Continue to Run Away from Their Base on Afghanistan
Posted: December 9, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, General McChrystal, Ike Skelton, Karl Eikenberry, Rethink Afghanistan, Rory O'Connor, Stanley McChrystal
I sat through a painful House Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday to listen for anything new from General Stanley McChrystal, who continued the administration’s backpedaling from the July 2011 date for the start of a drawdown in Afghanistan: “I don’t believe July 2011 is a major factor in my military strategy.” This quote is the [...]
