Afghanistan

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  • The real war on terrorism

    Robert Young Pelton, author of "The World's Most Dangerous Places," says the U.S. military has killed "thousands and thousands" of people in Afghanistan, al-Qaida is a myth and the WTC was brought down by a "Mickey Mouse" outfit.
    By Mark Scheffler April 23, 2002

  • Betraying Afghanistan, again

    "Taliban" author Ahmed Rashid says the Bush administration is risking the success of its war on terror by scheming against Iraq's Saddam Hussein while Afghanistan is still in ruins.
    By Anthony York April 1, 2002

  • Bush's foreign policy blunders

    As Ramallah burns and the Saudis and Iraqis make peace, the administration's plans for a new coalition to bomb Iraq continue to crumble.
    By Joshua Micah Marshall March 30, 2002

  • The America-hating left turns up the volume

    Six months after al-Qaida killed more than 3,000 civilians, they'd rather bash Bush and Ashcroft than our terrorist enemies.
    By David Horowitz March 11, 2002

  • Conservative squeeze play

    It was bad enough when right-wing ideologues convinced Bush to orate about the "axis of evil." But now they want him to really do something about it.
    By Scott Rosenberg March 6, 2002

  • Can warlords make peace in Afghanistan?

    Donald Rumsfeld wants the U.S. to stay out of peacekeeping and build a national army instead. The problem is that first you need a nation.
    By Phillip Robertson February 26, 2002

  • Bushed!

    Osama bin Laden is still at large and Afghanistan is a mess -- so why is the president in a hurry to take his anti-terror campaign elsewhere?
    By David Talbot February 26, 2002

  • Do androids dream of First Amendment rights?

    A Net-controlled robot reporter from MIT may be headed for Afghanistan.
    By Brad Wieners February 25, 2002

  • Bushed!

    The president has done nothing right since winning the war in Afghanistan -- and it's time for the timorous media to start saying it.
    By Joan Walsh February 21, 2002

  • The massacre at Oruzgan

    The killing of 21 pro-Karzai soldiers by U.S. forces illustrates how hard it can be to tell your allies from your enemies in war-torn Afghanistan.
    By Phillip Robertson February 21, 2002

  • "Axis of Stupidity" vs. "Axis of Snobbery"

     
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  • Axis of snobbery

    Liberal intellectuals who praise Bush for prosecuting the war but still insist he's stupid are the real dummies.
    By David Horowitz February 15, 2002

  • The deadly children of Ghazni

    On the treacherous Kabul-Kandahar road, our correspondent falls into the hands of a gang of feral kids with Kalashnikovs.
    By Phillip Robertson February 4, 2002

  • Love, Jalalabad style

    Since the Taliban fell, weddings are a time to sing and drink and party. But some things haven't changed: Nadar didn't meet his bride until their wedding day.
    By Phillip Robertson January 23, 2002

  • Are we victorious yet?

    With the al-Qaida network shattered but Osama bin Laden still at large, "Black Hawk Down" author Mark Bowden and other national security experts discuss when the U.S. will be able to declare victory over terrorism.
    By Max Garrone January 19, 2002

  • A passage through Peshawar

    Manzoor the fixer takes care of everything I need -- permits, bribes, even a bodyguard -- and then says goodbye at the Afghanistan border.
    By Phillip Robertson January 18, 2002

  • Stuck outside of Kabul ... with the nuclear blues again

    Musharraf is afraid of losing a war, while Vajpayee is afraid of losing an election. It's hideous politics that makes rational people like me want to drink too many gin and tonics.
    By Phillip Robertson January 17, 2002

  • Noam Chomsky

    The nation's most implacable critic of U.S. foreign policy argues that the war is unjust, America is the biggest terrorist state and intellectuals always support official violence.
    By Suzy Hansen January 16, 2002

  • Gen. Rashid Dostum

    The Uzbek warlord, and Afghanistan's new interim deputy defense minister, sounds enlightened, but can he walk it like he talks it?
    By Asla Aydintasbas January 8, 2002

  • I studied in Yemen with John Walker

    He was fresh from Marin, more Catholic than the pope and the other students derisively nicknamed him Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens).
    By Joshua Mortensen January 4, 2002

  • The making of a hawk

    From Kuwait to Kosovo to Kabul, American firepower has been on the right side of history. The odyssey of a former dove.
    By David Talbot January 3, 2002

  • Panic at the Bangi Bridge

    A trip to the front in Afghanistan turns into a nightmare after a Taliban ambush sets off a panic.
    By Phillip Robertson December 21, 2001

  • The midnight ride of James Woolsey

    The former CIA director presents himself as the Paul Revere of the terrorism age, trying to waken America to its greatest threat -- Saddam Hussein. Should we be listening?
    By Asla Aydintasbas December 20, 2001

  • Al-Qaida's last stand

    After I dodged a mortar shell on the front lines and met with mujahedin fighters who weren't so lucky, the Eastern Alliance declared victory -- again.
    By Mark Kukis December 17, 2001

  • "Kandahar"

    A stark and beautiful film traces an Afghan woman's journey across a landscape we may never understand.
    By Andrew O'Hehir December 14, 2001
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