Afghanistan War

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/22/2020
  

  Looking at War Across 2,500 Years (Review Essay)

  Recent books highlight the vast gap between perceptions and reality in warfare and foreground the gap between people who call for war and who fight it. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/12/2020
  

  Celebrated to Death: Memorial Day Is Killing Us

  by Erik Edstrom

  It should be our civic responsibility to change the forces that guide this nation. We must redefine what patriotism and national security truly stand for. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-13-17
  

  The Never-Ending War in Afghanistan

  by Andrew J. Bacevich

  We’ve come to accept the conflict as a perpetual state, an enterprise to be managed rather than ended as soon as possible.

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now
  10-11-16
  

  Rashid Khalidi chides presidential candidates and moderators for never mentioning the Afghanistan war

  In an interview he also focused on the tragedy of Syrian refugees.

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• 7-12-16
  

  The U.S. State Department Declares War on Afghanistan’s Pro-American Vice-President (And On All Afghan Uzbeks)

  by Brian Glyn Williams

  And the New York Times erringly follows its lead.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  10-19-15
  

  Endless War Does Not Make Us Safer

  by Ivan Eland

  Obama's recent decision to leave American troops in perpetuity in the Afghanistan War, despite a fourteen-year failed attempt to remodel the country, is as unsurprising as it is appalling.

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• 11-9-14
  

  This Is How Our Recent Wars Looked to Acclaimed Photojournalist Peter van Agtmael (Interview)

  by Robin Lindley

  There's the mainstream media version of the world.  And then there's reality. 

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• 4-7-14
  

  1,892 Veterans Have Committed Suicide THIS Year?

  by Murray Polner

  Why are so many coming home from our wars broken?