I usually don’t do this, but I have to take my friend Spencer Ackerman out for a ride. (In my defense, brother, just keep in mind that I’m taking you out for a ride for a blog post in which you took your friend out for a ride. Just sayin’.) And, I want to say [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Pretentious Brutality
Posted: April 16, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, COIN, counterinsurgency, McChrystal, special operations forces, Spencer Ackerman, UNAMA, war in Afghanistan
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Kandahar Bursts Gen. McChrystal’s Counterinsurgency Bubble
Posted: April 14, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, Brave New Foundation, counterinsurgency, insurgency, Kandahar, Karzai, Major General Nick Carter, McChrystal, military, Rethink Afghanistan, Taliban, war in Afghanistan, war on terror, war on terrorism
Cross-posted from Rethink Afghanistan. In case you hadn’t heard, the next stop in General McChrystal’s counterinsurgency plan is Kandahar, the ideological heart of the Taliban. Using the spadework done in advance of the Marjah operation as a template, McChrystal says the plan is to: "…do the political groundwork, so that when it’s time to do [...]
Special Ops Killing Civilians in Afghanistan: A Pattern of Brutality, Denial, Outrage and Violence
Posted: April 12, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Brave New Foundation, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, civilian killings, Gardez, night raids, Paktia, Paktiya, Rethink Afghanistan, special forces, special operations, special operations forces, special ops
Here’s my latest video created for Rethink Afghanistan. You can find the accompanying blog post here.
Karzai Flirts With Mullah Omar
Posted: April 7, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, Brave New Foundation, corruption, Derrick Crowe, Galbraith, Hamid, Karzai, opium, Peter, Rethink Afghanistan, war in Afghanistan
Here’s my latest video for Brave New Foundation.
U.S. and Allied Forces: We Killed Those Pregnant Afghan Women After All
Posted: April 5, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, Gardez, ISAF, Jerome Starkey, McChrystal, NATO, propaganda, Rear Adm. Greg Smith, Rear Admiral Gregory Smith, Rethink Afghanistan
Brave New Foundation’s Rethink Afghanistan project has been following the story about a night raid in Gardez by U.S. and Afghan forces (see the video above), and today those forces made a major admission about their responsibility for civilian deaths. In a press release issued on Easter (gee, I wonder if they hoped people would [...]
Dear President Obama: Easter Has Nothing To Do With War
Posted: April 4, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: antiwar, Christ, Christianity, Easter, Father Zabelka, Iwo Jima, Jesus, militarism, Obama, peace, war
