Afghanistan

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  10/07/2019
  

  'We Are Inside the Fire': An Oral History of the War in Afghanistan

  by Fahim Abed and Fatima Faizi

  Afghans have endured four decades of conflict, with little prospect of peace. This is the story of the last 18 years since the American invasion, as told by the men and women who’ve lived it.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  9/19/19
  

  Ending the Afghan War Won’t End the Killing

  by Stephanie Savell

  Since 2015, casualties from explosive remnants of war and abandoned IEDs have been rising rapidly.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 9, 2019
  

  On or off, peace talks with the Taliban spell disaster for Afghanistan

  by Ali A. Olomi

  With tweets on Saturday, President Trump killed secretly planned peace talks with the Taliban at Camp David. If history is any indication, the consequences of the Trump administration’s reckless attempt at an agreement and even hastier reversal will be borne out by Afghans themselves — a reality that Afghans know all too well.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/24/19
  

  Peace With Honor: What Vietnam Can Teach Us About How to Leave Afghanistan

  by Thurston Clarke

  Nixon promised the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War would bring “peace with honor.” They brought neither, and it now appears that the Afghan War is headed for a similar denouement.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  4/15/19
  

  Lessons From Vietnam on Leaving Afghanistan

  by George C. Herring

  There’s No Good Way to End a Bad War, but Some Options Are Worse Than Others.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  3/26/19
  

  Turning Our Backs on Nuremberg

  by Rebecca Gordon

  John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/6/19
  

  How the U.S. Departure From Afghanistan Could Echo Kissinger's Moves in Vietnam

  by David Kaiser

  Neither involvement, in retrospect, was ever likely to have succeeded, because the political forces the U.S. chose to support were too weak to deal with an armed opposition supported from a neighboring territory.

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• 2/2/19
  

  Is This the Right Way to End a War?

  Many experts worry that the U.S. is repeating the mistakes of Vietnam in Afghanistan.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  1/29/19
  

  National Security Archive Releases New documents on Soviet 1979 Invasion of Afghanistan

  Declassified Documents Show Moscow’s Fear of an Afghan Flip, U.S. Diplomat’s Meeting with Afghan Leader Helped Put Soviets Over the Edge

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/24/19
  

  Amnesia in Washington

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Afghanistan and the Implosion of America

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• 1/10/19
  

  Trump’s Bullshit-Savant Moment on Afghanistan

  by Benjamin Hopkins

  What has been lost in the consternation provoked by the President’s remarks is the fundamental question which remains unanswered – namely, what the hell is the US doing in Afghanistan?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/3/19
  

  Why Is Trump Spouting Russian Propaganda?

  by David Frum

  The president’s endorsement of the U.S.S.R.’s invasion of Afghanistan echoes a narrative promoted by Vladimir Putin.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/4/19
  

  Trump defends Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan

  Even the Wall Street Journal has denounced Trump for passing along old Soviet propaganda.

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  5/25/18
  

  Historian William Polk is alarmed at the latest plan to stabilize Afghanistan

  by William Polk

  The situation is terrible now and looks like it will get worse.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-2-18 (accessed)
  

  Video of the Week: How Many U.S. Wars Equal the One in Afghanistan?

  Afghanistan is America’s longest war — about 6,000 days. That's longer than WWI, WWII and the Korean War combined.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  11-8-17
  

  Leave It to the Generals

  by Andrew J. Bacevich

  A nonstrategy for Afghanistan

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-30-17
  

  Afghanistan: The Empire Stopper

  Foreign powers have tried to control Afghanistan for three centuries. It has not gone well for them. Now the U.S. is digging back in.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-22-17
  

  Max Boot says what we need to do in Afghanistan is what no one wants to admit and that's nation-building

  by Max Boot

  "The only conceivable path to success lies in fostering stable and effective institutions of government that can police their own territory with diminishing amounts of outside assistance. In other words, nation-building."

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• 6-25-17
  

  How Hollywood Keeps Getting Afghanistan Wrong

  by Robert W. Thurston

  From the glory of Charlie Wilson’s War to the pathos of Brad Pitt’s new movie, War Machine.

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• 4-17-17
  

  Is There Rhyme or Reason in Trump’s Approach to Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea?

  by Deepak Tripathi

  The sobering answer is no.