Evacuating Afghanistan
by Tom Friedman is ready to give up on Afghanistan: It is crunch time on Afghanistan, and we do not have the Afghan partners, the NATO …
Category: Afghanistan
Afghan Muslims Riot Over Koran Rumor
A rumor that American troops burned a copy of the Koran brought hundreds of flag and photo burning Muslims into the streets of Afghanistan today. …
Women’s Rights Under Assault in Afghanistan
Perhaps there is little room for leaders with principles in the new Afghanistan.Even so, I would expect more from Hamid Karzai’s government than to cave into Islamofascist fundamentalists on something so, well, fundamental as a woman’s right to control when she has sex. Basic as they are, such expectations are apparently for naught in the country western blood built.
Afghanistan / Islam / World
World Opinion in the Age of Hope
Hillary Clinton wasn’t greeted warmly in Barack Obama’s boyhood home of Indonesia. This picture says it all. Don Surber puts it this way: “Hope. Change. …
Afghanistan / Iraq / Military
Iraq Thankful for American Troops
Perhaps thankful is too strong of a word. Or perhaps not. 80% of Iraq’s parliament voted for a security pact that will keep American troops …
Cyd Mizell’s Condition Unknown
From ABC: On Monday, the police chief of Kandahar province, Sayed Agha Saqib, said police had not turned up any new information about the kidnapping. …
American Woman Kidnapped in Afghanistan
From the Houston Chronicle: Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early today, a provincial …