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. Talks between Hamid Karzai and Abdullah broke down today, according to CNN, meaning there will be no power-sharing arrangement to head off a highly problematic runoff vote. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Abdullah’
Abdullah May Boycott the Afghan Runoff Vote
Posted: October 30, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Abdullah, Afghan elections, Afghanistan, Karzai, Rethink Afghanistan
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Senator John Kerry Finds A War With Which He Can Flirt
Posted: October 27, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Abdullah, Afghanistan, Andrew Wilder, Ann Jones, COIN, counterinsurgency, John Kerry, Karzai, Matthew Hoh, McChrystal, Paul Pillar
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. Senator John Kerry came back from Afghanistan calling President Hamid Karzai a “patriot” and supportive of a plan “closer to McChrystal than to Biden,” meaning he loves [...]
The Winner of the Afghan Election: Electoral Fraud
Posted: October 21, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Abdullah, Afghanistan, COIN, counterinsurgency, Karzai, McChrystal, Nagl, Petraeus, Rethink Afghanistan, U.S. Army, U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
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. All hail the birth of Afghan democracy! The willingness of Americans to allow our political leaders to spend $1 million per troop, per [...]
Politics in Afghanistan: Karzai Folds #afghan09
Posted: October 20, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Abdullah, Afghan election, Afghanistan, COIN, counterinsurgency, Karzai, Rethink Afghanistan, STRATFOR
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. According to the New York Times and CNN, Senator John Kerry and U.S. Ambassador Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry have prevailed upon Afghan President [...]
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
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: [...]
