Hamid Karzai's rigged, botched reelection leaves the U.S. with no legitimate partner
By Juan Cole Nov 2, 2009
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In an interview, Abdullah Abdullah, challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, discusses election fraud
By Susanne Koelbl
October 26, 2009
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The country poses no threat to the U.S., but the war costs lives, drains the treasury and makes enemies
By Gene Lyons
October 21, 2009
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Is the war worth it? The cost in dollars, years, public opinion and lives
By Tom Engelhardt
September 14, 2009
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Across Afghanistan, violence and threats kept voters at home
By Matthias Gebauer
August 20, 2009
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The polls have closed. A survey of opinion on what the results will mean, from the Nation to the Weekly Standard
August 20, 2009
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai discovered the importance of adhering to his country's constitution at an awfully convenient political moment.
By Matthias Gebauer and Shoib Najafizada
March 2, 2009
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The resurgent Taliban attempt a strike against the vice president as he visits Afghanistan.
By Alex Koppelman
February 27, 2007
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Despite successful elections, warlords, drug cartels and growing disenchantment with the West could still derail the fledgling democracy.
By Mitchell Prothero
September 21, 2005
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For Bush, it's always either the day after 9/11 or the day before the Iraq invasion. He needs to rethink his war on terror.
By Sidney Blumenthal
July 21, 2005
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Afghanistan isn't Iraq yet. But when a suicide bomber blew himself and two other people up inside my hotel's Internet cafe, it became impossible to ignore the rising anger at foreigners here.
By Quil Lawrence
June 4, 2005
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Bush's failed strategy in the war on terrorism has spawned more al-Qaidas -- and they're funded by the booming heroin traffic in Afghanistan.
By Husain Haqqani
April 7, 2004
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A human rights worker reports from the
other front in the U.S. war on terror,
where warlords reign supreme, music is once
again banned, journalists hide from
gunmen, and even the streets of Kabul are
filled with fear.
By John Sifton
August 21, 2003
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While Westerners dance at end-of-the-world raves, the country slips back toward anarchy -- and the Bush administration does nothing.
By Phillip Robertson
October 28, 2002
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Playing into al-Qaida's hands: Will invading Iraq inflame the Arab and Muslim world and "open the gates of hell"?
By Edward W. Lempinen
September 6, 2002
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In an Afghan province known for its hostility to the West, the U.S. is hunting for a fierce Islamic military leader.
By Phillip Robertson
September 6, 2002
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"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