Tag: afghanistan
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For me, summer is a time to catch up on my reading. As I head out for a few weeks of vacation, I thought I would leave you with a few suggestions for things I thought were worth reading that you may have missed. Today, I want to share a few of the articles on contemporary wars that I found most ... Read More
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A month ago I wrote an article expressing my concern over whether the U.S. has a clear, achievable plan in Libya. I knew at the time that President Obama would be reluctant to call what we were doing a war, both for political and legal reasons. But it never occurred to me there was any actual ... Read More
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The U.S has begun an undeclared war in Libya. It has gone to war in spite of the privately-expressed concerns of its Secretary of Defense. And it’s not clear what exactly it hopes to achieve by its actions. President Obama has said that “Qaddafi needs to go.” But he has stopped short of saying ... Read More
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“Any future defense secretary,” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told an audience of West Point cadets Friday, “who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined.” In what was something of a farewell speech ... Read More
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Bloggers, as most know, are exceptionally lazy people. Mostly, we sit around in our underwear playing flash games. Only occasionally do we get off the sofa to whip off some poorly thought-out screed in a cheeto-fueled rage. Naturally we like to save ourselves the trouble of actually working by ... Read More
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After President Obama's recent speeches—one at West Point proposing sending more troops to Afghanistan and one accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo—commentators have been quick to articulate the "Obama Doctrine" at their base. But Obama is not a man of doctrines. Unlike his predecessor, he ... Read More
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Shortly after President Obama finished his speech outlining his plan to bring the war in Afghanistan to a successful conclusion, bloggers have rushed to remind us that Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empires." The phrase, attributed to Mahmud Tarzi, one of the key figures of Afghan independence, is ... Read More
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