An Exit Strategy for Afghanistan

April 23,2012, By Jim Cason, Associate Executive Secretary for Campaigns at Friends Committee on National Legislation Here in Washington, it’s easy to find boosters for the current U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan. Outside of Washington, it’s harder. A CNN...

Don’t Leave Afghanistan a Mess

Council on Foreign RelationsInterviewee: Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia  Interviewer: Toni Johnson, Senior Editor/Senior Staff WriterApril 18, 2012 The April 15 attacks by Taliban forces in Afghanistan raised new questions about NATO,...

Afghan refugees return to absolutely nothing

Danish Refugee Council, April 13, 2012 Returning Afghan refugees and internally displaced people are living in muddy slum areas of the cities in Afghanistan. They have no possessions and no opportunities. The International Society is not aware of the dire living...

A Medieval Nightmare Finds a Home in the American Way of Making War

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould,  posted on APRIL 10, 2012 Ten years ago this fall we sat in the walled garden of a bullet-pocked Kabul villa on a brilliant sunlit afternoon, interviewing American reporters about what they thought the prospects were for a U.S....