Month: November 2009

I don’t think Hamid Karzai is a terrible guy. I just think he’s incapable of governing Afghanistan. What I don’t understand is why we would think we can succeed where he has failed. He gets his hands dirty...

Or is the right acronym SNAFU? I’ll let you decide after you read this: Welcome to the wartime contracting bazaar in Afghanistan. It is a virtual carnival of improbable characters and shady connections, with former CIA...

Troops were dragged into clashes when trying to clear militants from areas adjoining Taliban stronghold of Kaniguram. At least 15 soldiers were killed in the fighting, while a roadside bomb killed two soldiers in Sararogha area...

The river they are crying is as big as the Mississippi.

(The sixth in of a series of seven.) Nothing in Common If the cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words is true, then a couple of images might sum up the debate of over health care reform, and prove representative of the...