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12/20/2020
Trump's Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan: Part 2 – Is There Even a "Trump Doctrine"?
by Brian Glyn Williams
Many Americans have bought Donald Trump's claim that he seeks to extricate the U.S. from "endless wars," including in Afghanistan. Viewed in the context of his other foreign policy actions, this claim is nonsensical, and undermines the work being done in support of global democracy and American interests.
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12/20/2020
Trump's Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan: Part 1 – Abandoning a Vulnerable Ally in the War on Terror
by Brian Glyn Williams
Donald Trump's plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan misrepresents the scope and costs of the American mission and ignores the high stakes of failure for both Afghans and American security, according to a scholar of the War on Terror.
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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: Yahoo News
8-28-15
British Library rejects Taliban trove fearing terror laws
Academics have criticised the British government for creating a "climate of fear" after the national library declined to store the world's biggest collection of Taliban-related documents over concerns it could be prosecuted under terrorism laws.
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8-2-15
Post Mortem: Taliban Leader Mullah Omar
by Brian Glyn Williams
Omar said that giving up Osama bin Laden to the Americans would mean the end of Islam.
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12-28-14
Why Pakistan’s Embrace of Jihadism Is Deadly
by Brian Glyn Williams
The back story to the Peshawar School Massacre.
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SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald
7=29-14
The beautiful, historic shrines that Islamists try to destroy
The militants espouse a radical, puritanical strain of Sunni Islam whereby all shrines or holy sites that honour beings lesser than their God are considered apostate.
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