Restrepo BY Gabriel Schoenfeld July 23, 2010 10:05 AM What is combat in Afghanistan like? For those of us who have not been embedded as reporters, but want to know what our soldiers in this difficult war are up against, there is now Restrepo, a documentary film by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger. The subtitle of the […]
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JULY 14, 2010 The Taliban War on Women Continues When 22-year-old Hossai was told to quit her job by the Taliban, she refused to be bullied. She was shot and killed. By RACHEL REID Kabul Beware Taliban revisionism. You’re going to hear much more of it in the coming months as policy makers from Kabul
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JULY 13, 2010 U.S. Rebuilds Power Plant, Taliban Reap a Windfall By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan—The U.S. has poured more than $100 million into upgrading the Kajaki hydropower plant, the biggest source of electricity in south Afghanistan. And it plans on spending much more, in an effort to woo local sympathies away from the
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mark Steyn June 26, 2010 7:01 A.M. The Unengaged President Obama’s lack of interest in the world is evident in his handling of the oil spill and the Afghan War. What do General McChrystal and British Petroleum have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re both Democratic-party supporters.
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JUNE 25, 2010 Petraeus’s Opportunity His selection reassures our Afghan allies that the U.S. will not begin substantial troop reductions until the Afghans can handle the insurgents on their own. By MARK MOYAR The firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal has ended the career of an outstanding military leader and the only American to forge a
JUNE 28, 2010 Petraeus and Obama’s Uncertain Trumpet There is a mismatch between the general’s Afghan mission and the president’s summons to his countrymen. By FOUAD AJAMI The chroniclers tell us that Lyndon Johnson never took to the Vietnam War. He prosecuted it, it became his war, but it was, in LBJ’s language, a “bitch
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The following is a letter from Ben, a soldier our group of conservative ladies have been in contact with for over a year. This is his last letter as his assignmnent in Afghanistan is over: So here I sit in Kyrgyzstan at Manas Air Base safely out of the war torn Afghanistan. I take pause
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Adam Goldman LaBonte’s family had promised him they wouldn’t talk about his work. They kept that pledge as they mourned in private after he died along with six other CIA employees and a Jordanian intelligence officer in the suicide bombing at a U.S. base in Afghanistan in late December. Even now, months after his burial,
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JUNE 2, 2010 Strategy vs. Tactics in Afghanistan By ANN MARLOWE Gen. Stanley McChrystal has embraced Hamid Karzai as part of the Obama administration’s startling about-face on the Afghan president. Until recently, the Obama team seemed to understand that Mr. Karzai was “not an adequate strategic partner,” in the well-chosen words of our ambassador (and
APRIL 23, 2010 The Meaning of the Korengal Retreat By BING WEST In 2006, the United States sent a company of men into a sparsely populated, steep-sided valley called the Korengal in northeastern Afghanistan. It was part of a new counterinsurgency strategy aimed at stopping fighters from coming across the nearby Pakistan border and at
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