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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Karzai’
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 [...]
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.
State Department Describes a Predator Government in Afghanistan
Posted: March 14, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: 2009 Human Rights Report: Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, human rights, Karzai, Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama, Rethink Afghanistan, State Department, torture, U.S. Department of State, West Point, zina
If the President of the United States stood at a podium and said the following, hopefully we’d tell him to go to Hell: We must summon all of our might and moral suasion to meet the challenges of a new age.* That’s why I have decided it is in our vital national interest to send [...]
Karzai Cartel: Uh, Sure, We’ll Clean Up Corruption!
Posted: November 20, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Brave New Conversations, Daniel Ellsberg, Karim Khalili, Karzai, Matthew Hoh, Mohammed Qasim Fahim, Rethink Afghanistan
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You know what’s funny? Hamid Karzai, Electioneer-in-Chief, stood between these two guys, Mohammed Qasim Fahim and Karim Khalili to declare [h/t and photo credit, Wired's Danger Room blog]: Those who spread corruption should be tried and prosecuted. Corruption is a very dangerous [...]
Abdullah May Boycott the Afghan Runoff Vote
Posted: October 30, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Abdullah, Afghan elections, Afghanistan, Karzai, Rethink Afghanistan
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. [...]
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: [...]
