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Afghanistan:  Stalemate in the “Great Game”

Afghanistan: Stalemate in the “Great Game”

On Saturday the New York Times reported yet more evidence of the incorrigible corruption of the Karzai government in Afghanistan.  Fazel Ahmed Facqiryar, a former Deputy Attorney General, has recently been fired for asserting publicly that the investigations of more ...Read more

Hail to the Chief: President Obama Making the Tough Choices on Afghanistan

Again and again during the course of his campaign for President, Barack Obama said that Afghanistan was the just but neglected war. He said it was the principal front against Al Qaeda. He said it was the war we ...Read more

At the Crossroads in Afghanistan: The Dead End

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Islamist Fascism is today just such an incendiary bomb, ...Read more

At the Crossroads in Afghanistan: The McCrystal Report

Over the weekend General Stanley McCrystal, reporting from Afghanistan, was on the big screen at the White House Situation Room asking for more troops. He offered the President options for additional American forces ranging from 10,000 up to 40,000. ...Read more

At the Crossroads in Afghanistan: Testing the President's Judgment

President Obama and his advisers are right to realize that they are at a perilous crossroad in Afghanistan. The path they take from here will determine the landscape of American foreign policy going forward, it will impact world events ...Read more

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