Posts Tagged ‘Rethink Afghanistan’

Individual acts and the collapse of Pakistan

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. Last week, I wrote about an impending civil war in Pakistan, projecting a possible “complete collapse of Pakistan...

July 19th, 2010 | Middle East, Politics, World | Read More

What’s worse: Steele’s Afghanistan comments or the reaction?

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. It shouldn’t be breaking news to anyone that the Chairman of the Republican Party, Michael Steele, said something...

July 9th, 2010 | Middle East, Politics | Read More

All politics are local: Al-Qa’eda and the Afghanistan War

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. In our latest video from Rethink Afghanistan, we close it by asking a question. “Afghanistan got your attention now?”...

July 6th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

McChrystal’s revenge: Everyone hates Karl Eikenberry

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. Supporter’s of General McChrystal’s counterinsurgency policy are heart-broken over his firing. Not that they...

June 25th, 2010 | Middle East | Read More

Crazy COIN Strategy: US-Pakistani Nuclear Deal

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. Our strategy in Afghanistan is pretty bad, but aside from the obvious broken logic of creating peace through war, I wouldn’t...

June 22nd, 2010 | Middle East | Read More

Afghanistan: Has Hamid Karzai already joined the Taliban?

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. The war in Afghanistan is disintegrating before our very eyes. Our counterinsurgency strategy is broken, and the Pentagon...

June 21st, 2010 | Middle East | Read More

Does an Afghanistan exit strategy hurt our allies?

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. Uh oh, looks like you are starting to have an effect on the war. Congress is freaking out, calling hearings, holding up...

June 18th, 2010 | Politics, US | Read More

Fresh talking point: Poor Afghanistan, they’re rich!

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. By now everyone has just about lost their damn minds about this New York Times article detailing Afghanistan’s “discovery”...

June 15th, 2010 | Politics, US | Read More

Afghanistan: What happens when our allies ‘do more’

If you’ve been following the recent military operations in Helmand and Kandahar, you’ve likely noticed that it’s been something of an unmitigated disaster. And not just a disaster in the sense that most of our military efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan have been disasters —...

June 14th, 2010 | Middle East | Read More

“Democratic Discourse”: Reflections in the Pakistani mirror

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. Glenn Greenwald has a fascinating post up about “tribalism” in our political discourse on Israel. I’ll...

June 7th, 2010 | Middle East | Read More