Tag Archives: Afghanistan

Escalator

By WorldWideWeber | Published: November 30, 2009
Exactly a month ago, while drawing up Obama’s first-quarter report card, I wrote: “Still to be scored is his approach to Afghanistan—he is currently deliberating, and the hope arises he will ditch the simpleminded bellicosity displayed in his campaign and find a saner solution to that mess.” During the 2008 campaign Obama trashed the Bush administration [...]
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Afghanistan

By WorldWideWeber | Published: February 19, 2006
Last Wednesday Moscow News somberly noted the 17th anniversary of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. In the course of the ten-year war, more than 14,600 Soviet soldiers died and some 50,000 were wounded. Since the US entered Afghanistan in 2001, 276 American soldiers have died. The scope of the US presence in Afghanistan is, of [...]
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  • Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
    —Gravity’s Rainbow

    ‘Is it about a bicycle?’ he asked.
    —The Third Policeman