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 U.S. is pinwheeling its arms on the edge of a very [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Karzai’
Constitutional Death Spiral in Afghanistan
Posted: September 13, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan, Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Karzai, Rethink Afghanistan
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Fraud and Press Censorship Taint Afghan Vote
Posted: August 20, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghan election, Afghanistan, Karzai, warlords
The election is on in Afghanistan, which means vote fraud and media censorship are the name of the game today. IPS News Analyst Gareth Porter yesterday published a story that detailed a massive vote fraud campaign intended to re-elect Hamid Karzai. According to Porter, Karzai’s vote fraud scheme includes: Alliances with warlords, who will deliver [...]
Afghan Warlords, Narco-State Government Not Worth Another Drop of U.S. Blood
Posted: August 17, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Dostum, Karzai, narco-state, Rethink Afghanistan
An overnight development shows why the Kabul regime is not worth another drop of American blood, and why the elections later this week will be far from the democratic triumph presented by U.S. officials. Drug kingpin and war criminal General Abdul Rashid Dostum is back in Afghanistan, working to help re-elect President Hamid Karzai. KABUL [...]
The Rule of the Rapists, Continued
Posted: March 31, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Karzai
The U.S. government wants your sons and daughters to kill and be killed for this: Hamid Karzai signs law ‘legalising rape in marriage’ President Hamid Karzai has signed a law the UN says legalises rape in marriage and prevents women from leaving the house without permission. Let’s not pretend that the war in Afghanistan is [...]
Dying by the Sword in Afghanistan
Posted: January 28, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Christianity, counterinsurgency, Jesus, Kabul, Karzai, nonviolence, Obama, Robert Gates
Today’s New York Times ran a story on its front page entitled “Aides Say Obama’s Afghan Aims Elevate War.” WASHINGTON — President Obama intends to adopt a tougher line toward Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, as part of a new American approach to Afghanistan that will put more emphasis on waging war than on development, [...]
