On July 1, 2002, US planes bombed an Afghan wedding in the small village of Deh Rawud. Located to the north of Kandahar, the village seemed fortified by the region’s many mountains. For a few hours, its people thought they were safe from a war they had never invited. They celebrated, and as customs go, [...]

When the United States attacked Afghanistan ten years ago, we were told that not only were we going after those who had attacked us but also that we would liberate Afghan women from the Taliban.  It was a very effective selling point; there is nothing we tend to like better than rescuing helpless women.  But [...]

A look behind the headline news of airstrikes and suicide bombings at the post-9/11 war for hearts and minds.

Nos estamos aproximando al décimo aniversario de las horrendas atrocidades acaecidas el 11 de septiembre de 2001, unos hechos que, según se considera a amplios niveles, cambiaron el mundo. El pasado 1 de mayo un equipo de los comandos de elite estadounidenses, los SEAL de la Marina, asesinaron al presunto cerebro del crimen, Osama bin [...]

We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. On May 1st, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was assassinated in Pakistan by a team of elite US commandos, Navy SEALs, after he was captured, unarmed and undefended, in [...]

What Almost $8 Trillion in National Security Spending Bought You The killing of Osama Bin Laden did not put cuts in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did.  And mild as those projected cuts might have been, last week newly minted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was already digging in his [...]

Con mi mal sentido de la orientación geográfica, me resulta un tanto extraño verme convertida en guía de un grupo en un viaje al extranjero. Estoy recordando una calurosa y húmeda noche en Lahore, Pakistán, cuando Josh Brollier y yo, tras haber disfrutado de una larga cena con los estudiantes de la universidad de Lahore, [...]

While US threats to hold back aid mean little, its hunting on Pakistani soil is heightening tensions Ever since the US occupation of Afghanistan began almost 10 years ago two fictions, common in nuclear families, have dominated the discussion on American-Pakistan relations. The first is that neither side is fully aware of what the other is [...]

Antes de finables de 2011, Pakistán comenzará en su trecho los trabajos del gasoducto IP (Irán-Pakistán) según Asim Hussain, ministro federal para el petróleo y los recursos naturales de Pakistán. Los 1.092 kilómetros del gasoducto en el lado iraní ya están construidos. El IP, conocido también como el “gasoducto de la paz”, era originalmente IPI (Irán-Pakistán-India). Aunque [...]

Four Reasons Why Pfc. Bradley Manning Deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Not a Prison Cell We still don’t know if he did it or not, but if Bradley Manning, the 24-year-old Army private from Oklahoma, actually supplied WikiLeaks with its choicest material — the Iraq War logs, the Afghan War logs, and the State Department [...]