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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Petraeus’
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
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Frogs and Hot Water and All That
Posted: July 12, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Center for Strategic and International Studies, escalation, Every War Must End, Fred Charles Iklé, nonviolence, Normon Solomon, Obama, pacifism, Petraeus, Robert Gates, Stanley McChrystal
Someone holding the purse strings (that’s you, Congress) better decide right now how much taxpayer money and how many dead U.S. soldiers are a fair price for “victory” in Afghanistan, because any minute now you’re going to receive a request for more blood and treasure. Specifically, the Pentagon wants more money to grow the Afghan [...]
Pardon a Brief Interruption
Posted: September 17, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Bush, Iraq, Odierno, Petraeus
I have to help run a two-day conference at work, which will prevent me from blogging again until Saturday, September 20th. See you then. In the meantime, here’s a letter to the editor I wrote in response to a breathless editorial praising General David Petraeus’ performance in Iraq. Here’s hoping it gets published: I was [...]
American Militarism and a Christian Way Out
Posted: September 16, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Iran, Iraq, Jesus, military-industrial complex, nonviolence, Petraeus
The anti-war movement in the U.S. has been described as the weakest social movement in America, and for good reason. The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) 2.0 is very, very smart. It understands that Congress wields the power of the purse, and so it distributes its business across every single congressional district, thereby investing most Members’ [...]
I remember sitting in my office down the hall from the first “Petraeus Hearing,” watching the closed-circuit feed as the general and Ambassador Crocker showed charts tracking the Balkanization of Baghdad. The charts illustrated in mathematical, sterile terms that Baghdad reorganized itself along lines of ethnicity and mutual suspicion. The report below dramatizes the cold [...]
