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Europe & Central Asia
Leaving Afghanistan Doesn’t Have to Mean Abandoning It
Boosters for the current U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan are predominantly found in Washington, DC.
Our Own Worst Enemy
The brazen terrorist assault on Kabul on April 16 was the biggest attack on the Afghan capital in the last decade. For some 18 hours, strategically perched Taliban militants linked to the Haqqani network fired on government buildings, embassies, and foreign military bases. A total of 51 people died, including 36 militants. Some 74 were wounded in Kabul along with three neighboring provinces where government and military targets came under synchronized attack.
The Afghan Syndrome
Take off your hat. Taps is playing. Almost four decades late, the Vietnam War and its post-war spawn, the Vietnam Syndrome, are finally heading for their American grave. It may qualify as the longest attempted burial in history. Last words — both eulogies and curses — have been offered too many times to mention, and yet no American administration found the silver bullet that would put that war away for keeps.
U.S. Thinking on Afghanistan Is Not Just Magical, But Hallucinatory
The Taliban shut down preliminary talks with Washington, because, according to its spokesman, the Americans were “shaky, erratic and vague.”
U.S. Only Lightening Grip on Reins of Afghan Night Raids
Whether U.S. or Afghan-led, night raids are still night raids.
Women of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Twenty Years Later
Twenty years ago this month, war broke out in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the main act in the dissolution of Yugoslavia. In Sarajevo, the country’s capital that once proudly hosted the Winter Olympics, 11,541 red chairs on the main street mark the grim anniversary. One for every citizen killed during the almost four years of the city’s siege, the longest in recent history.
Mountains Made of Muslims
Few in the West are aware of the extent of the savagery that Christians rained down on Muslims during the crusades.
Many Share Blame With Sgt. Bales for Killing of 17 Afghans
Guilt for the 17 Afghan civilians that Sgt. Bales was alleged to have killed is shared by many Americans.
Justifications for Slaughtering Muslims Were in Ample Supply for Crusaders
The Koran is condemned for promoting violence against non-believers, but the Bible has been mined to justify the killing of untold numbers of Muslims.