Karachi violence has big implications for White House -- and the fight with al-Qaida
By Juan Cole Jan 12, 2010
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Justice Department looking at alternate places to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, others, after political pressure
By Alex Koppelman
January 29, 2010
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It was a work of evil but also of a showman. The atrocity that hit us on 9/11 singularly defined the years ahead
By Matt Zoller Seitz
December 31, 2009
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Dick Cheney, David Brooks and others urge the president to man up. Why is foreign policy always about machismo?
By Gene Lyons
November 4, 2009
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You'd never know it from the MSM, but he deserves high grades for his work so far in Iran, Iraq and Pakistan
By Juan Cole
October 26, 2009
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Foreign relations expert Richard Haass says in an interview that Afghanistan is no longer a necessary war
By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart
September 28, 2009
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Afghanistan's election mess could mean trouble for the U.S.
By Juan Cole
September 14, 2009
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Obama has to be more specific and systematic about his goals in Afghanistan before we can judge his strategy there
By Juan Cole
August 18, 2009
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Joseph Nye talks about Obama's use of hard and soft power in Afghanistan, and what he learned from Henry Kissinger
By Gabor Steingart and Gregor Peter Schmitz
August 18, 2009
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Documents obtained by the ACLU seem to show that medical personnel monitored the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah
By Sheri Fink
May 28, 2009
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President Obama gives a speech on Guantanamo Bay, torture and national security
May 21, 2009
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Dick Cheney keeps saying "enhanced interrogation" was used to stop imminent attacks, but evidence is mounting that the real reason was to invent evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
By Joe Conason
May 14, 2009
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An FBI agent testifies that an al-Qaida prisoner provided useful intelligence until the CIA got rough -- and casts doubt on Bush's statements about the effectiveness of harsh interrogations.
By Mark Benjamin
May 14, 2009
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The "ticking bomb" scenario only happens on TV. Those, like Dick Cheney, who cite it are leading society down a fatal slippery slope of abuse.
By Gary Kamiya
April 23, 2009
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Bush officials said they only tortured terrorists after they wouldn't talk. New evidence shows they planned torture soon after 9/11 -- and used it to find links between al-Qaida and Saddam.
By Mark Benjamin
April 22, 2009
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The secretary of defense began laying the groundwork for detainee abuse years before Abu Ghraib.
By Mike Madden
April 22, 2009
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The president sounds like he's channeling Cheney or McCain -- or a Cold War hawk afraid of international communism -- when he talks about the war in Afghanistan.
By Juan Cole
March 30, 2009
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What will Obama do with Guantanamo's single largest group of detainees? One hundred Yemenis wait to go home -- but those who've already returned to Yemen didn't find a warm welcome.
By Letta Tayler
March 29, 2009
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The president announces he's sending an additional 4,000 troops and trainers to what's now being dubbed "Obama's war."
By Alex Koppelman
March 27, 2009
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William Dalrymple's review of Ahmed Rashid's "Descent into Chaos" tells a tale of neocon-concocted utter disaster
By Andrew Leonard
January 22, 2009
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The president-elect wants to work with the Pakistani government to "stamp out" terror. It's not nearly that simple.
By Juan Cole
December 12, 2008
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After a two-year investigation, the Senate names names -- Bush, Tenet, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonzales, Addington, Rice.
By Mark Benjamin
December 12, 2008
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Ayman al-Zawhri says Barack Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X.
By Alex Koppelman
November 19, 2008
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What was an Iraqi politician doing at CIA headquarters just days before he distributed a fake memo incriminating Saddam Hussein in 9/11?
By Joe Conason
August 8, 2008
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The Keyboard Commandos want Obama to be tough
Obama's foreign policy report card
"Afghanistan is Mr. Obama's war of choice"
Bin Laden: U.S. support of Israel led to 9/11
What is Obama defending in Afghanistan?
"It is pointless to talk to al-Qaida"
Do CIA cables show doctors monitoring torture?
"As president, I refuse to allow this problem to fester"
We tortured to justify war
Soufan: CIA torture actually hindered our intelligence gathering
Torture works sometimes -- but it's always wrong
Torture planning began in 2001, Senate report reveals
Rumsfeld: Architect of torture
Obama's domino theory
You can't go home (to Yemen) again
Failure in Afghanistan, catastrophe in Pakistan
Does Obama understand his biggest foreign-policy challenge?
New evidence suggests Ron Suskind is right
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