Border starting to look like a war zone
With drones overhead, massive imposing borders and heavily armed militaries pursuing an enemy that easily blends into the civilian population, the drug war on the Mexican border is increasingly more...
View ArticleWar has changed life for the better
Ten years after American involvement in Afghanistan, life there “isn’t just better – it’s much better,” Charles Kenny says in Foreign Policy. The cost of these gains have been real and substantial in...
View ArticleSocial Media is the new watch dog
The alleged mass-murder of Afghans by American soldiers is nothing new and Vietnam is a prime example, says Jon Lee Anderson in the New Yorker. It will not, however, go on without consequence from...
View ArticleKillings by soldier a devastating tragedy
In The Daily Beast, Benjamin Busch laments the cost in lives and trust of one Marine’s actions, allegedly killing 16 Afghan civilians. Busch, a Marine who served in Iraq, wonders if the suffering is...
View ArticleWhy do we fight, Mr. Obama?
Our opinion: Events in Afghanistan in recent months raise fresh doubts about prospects for American success. How many hostile signals will it take that we are no longer welcome in Afghanistan, even by...
View ArticleA stable Afghanistan depends on Pakistan
“If Pakistan stops providing the Afghan Taliban and other radical Islamists with safe havens, a stable Afghanistan is possible,” says Trudy Rubin in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Otherwise, she says,...
View ArticleEnd child sex trade in Afghanistan
America needs to address the trafficking of young boys for enslavement in Afghanistan, says Colbert I. King in the Washington Post, because the “odious sex-slave practice has been on the rise since the...
View ArticleDesecration of dead is common practice
Taking trophies from the battlefield is as old as war itself, says Jack Shafer in Reuters. Such behavior results from the view that soldiers “are fighting a dehumanized ‘far enemy’ akin to the Japanese...
View ArticleObama strategy is a proven failure
“Beyond al Qaeda, the U.S. president has achieved little of strategic importance in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” says Arif Rafiq in Foreign Policy. In fact, says Rafiq, President Obama’s strategy in...
View ArticleBefore thanks, a few laments
Our opinion: While there’s plenty to gripe about, even on Thanksgiving, it an remind us of what we’re grateful for, too. We’re going to break with tradition today and offer up some complaints. Oh,...
View ArticleMission at risk of unraveling
Unless NATO forces leave some troops in Afghanistan, Taliban insurgents will reclaim parts of the country and jeopardize the Afghani government and America’s mission in the region, says Graeme Smith in...
View ArticleU.S. viewed as threat to peace
Your Aug. 7 editorial on the death in Afghanistan of Maj. Gen. Harold Greene distinguishes the “ill-advised eight-year conflict in Iraq” from our “military mission” in Afghanistan, justified as...
View ArticlePractice what we preach about human rights
The July 10 political cartoon with one tourist saying to another, “Oh, look, honey! Cuban security beating up a dissident! Quick! Get a snapshot!” was probably intended to express our condemnation of...
View ArticleSanders sensible about combatting terrorism
The Nov. 13 attack in France by ISIS is both alarming and terrifying. For many, it will bring back memories of the 9/11 attacks in New York City. After 9/11, we took a hotheaded approach to combating...
View ArticleTrump would change our Muslim community
I have watched with increasing distress the success of Donald Trump despite his crude hate-mongering. As an enrolled Democrat, I must appeal to Republicans to please go out and vote against Trump. The...
View ArticleEnd war, then celebrate fourth
I cannot celebrate the Fourth of July. I know that many veterans cannot enjoy fireworks any more. It has been reported that an average of 22 veterans commit suicide every day. So what are we doing...
View ArticleTerror as a state of mind
To a terrorist, mass violence is merely a means to an end. The real goal is planting a seed of fear that takes root and grows like a choking vine around a healthy tree. A child born on Sept. 11, 2001,...
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