Exclusive, on-the-ground interviews obtained by Brave New Foundation’s Rethink Afghanistan project confirm what NATO forces repeatedly denied: U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan killed dozens of people in the Sangin District of Helmand Province on July 23. Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office first acknowledged the incident when they condemned the killings on July 26. At [...]
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NATO Forces in Afghanistan Can’t Deny They Killed Civilians in Sangin Anymore
Posted: August 6, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: 2010, 2012, Abdul Barg, Abdul Zahar, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Brave New Foundation, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, coalition, Farah, Gardez, Helmand, insurgency, insurgent, International Security Assistance Force, ISAF, javelin, Josef Blotz, Kabul, Karzai, Mahmoud Jan Kaka, marines, martyr, martyred, massacre, national bureau of economic research, NATO, New York Times, Rear Admiral Gregory Smith, Rethink Afghanistan, rigi, rocket, sangin, soldier, Taliban, troop
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Loving Your President to the End of Your Dream
Posted: March 6, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Barack Obama
Let me tell you something, progressives: the President is calling your bluff, and if you stand there and take it, you can kiss your “Hope” goodbye: The Obama team – both political and economic wings – seems to feel that their base has nowhere else to go, and all they need to do is drift [...]
The Least You Could Do Is Tax Me for the War I Oppose
Posted: November 27, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Charlie Rangel, David Obey, Nancy Pelosi, Rethink Afghanistan, taxes
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You can say no to escalation in Afghanistan by signing our CREDO petition at http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/saynotoescalation/. For each signature, CREDO will donate a dollar to support Crowe’s work. I loathe the use of my tax dollars for any violence, but you know what [...]
Snake Eyes in Afghanistan
Posted: September 24, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Ambrose, Augustine, Balochistan, Barack Obama, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, drones, Fallujah, Geoff Morrell, just war criteria, just war theory, Mubashar Jawed Akbar, Mullah Omar, Nir Rosen, nonviolence, Osama bin Laden, P.W. Singer, Pakistan, Quetta, Rethink Afghanistan, Robert Greene, Taliban, The 33 Strategies of War, Wired for War
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You can learn more about the dangers posed to U.S. national security by the war in Afghanistan by watching Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six): Security, or by visiting http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. The Pentagon expects to receive General McChrystal’s troop request by the end [...]
Gen. McChrystal’s Assessment Ignores COIN Doctrine, Reality
Posted: September 22, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Bill Kristol, counterinsurgency, escalation, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Mike Mullen, Rethink Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You can learn more about the dangers posed to U.S. national security by the war in Afghanistan by watching Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six): Security, or by visiting http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. General McChrystal’s “new strategy” has been leaked to press in what looks [...]
President Obama, The Sermon on the Mount and the War in Afghanistan
Posted: September 14, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Christian, Christianity, counterinsurgency, Gandhi, Jesus Christ, nonviolence, peace, Rethink Afghanistan, Sermon on the Mount, war
During and after the 2008 campaign, President Obama repeatedly identified himself as a Christian for whom the Sermon on the Mount figured prominently in his faith. The Sermon on the Mount, as he has acknowledged, is a radical text of nonviolence, self-sacrifice, and enemy love. Since taking office, President Obama has massively escalated the war [...]
War Gone Wild in Afghanistan
Posted: September 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Abe Greenwald, Afghanistan, Anthony Cordesman, Barack Obama, Bruce Riedel, escalation, Karl Eikenberry, Rethink Afghanistan
When the people of an occupied country want foreign troops out while the people of the occupying country want their troops to come home, and the troops remain, something is wrong. Both the American people and the Afghan people want a troop decrease in Afghanistan. Yet this weekend, the President is reviewing a strategic assessment [...]
