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Gould: US & Afghanistan
Znet Article, October, 18 2010
Elizabeth Gould
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Largely as a result of the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” the traditional framework of the East-West political dialogue has broken and fallen entirely under the spell of the extremists on both sides.
Fitzgerald: Decrypting the Shadow behind Hamid Karzai
Znet Article, September, 24 2010
Paul Fitzgerald
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According to news reports, the Obama administration is once again reevaluating how to deal with Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai out of fear that it may now be holding him to unrealistic standards of U.S. law enforcement.
Fitzgerald: Thinking the Unthinkable
Znet Article, June, 06 2010
Paul Fitzgerald
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The upcoming campaign for the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar will be the crucial test for the United States' military and the Obama administration's AfPak strategy. It will clearly be an epic military battle and a test of the intellectual movement...
Gould: Crossing Zero
Znet Article, May, 09 2010
Elizabeth Gould
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The region today delineated as both Afghanistan and Pakistan has known many borders over the millennia, yet none have been more artificial or contentious than the one today separating Pakistan from Afghanistan known as the Durand line but referred...
Fitzgerald: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the Messiah of Darkness
Znet Article, April, 11 2010
Paul Fitzgerald
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The history of turning warlords like Hekmatyar to the good has consistently proven to be nothing but bad for the Afghan people
Gould: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar: Embracing the Insanity of the Fictional Colonel Kurtz
Znet Article, January, 22 2010
Elizabeth Gould
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One thing that remains consistent over the last 30 years in observing America’s participation in Afghanistan is that mistakes and errors of judgment, no matter how egregious or self-defeating, never seem to get corrected. In fact, in its effort ...
Fitzgerald: Afghanistan: The Mourning After
Znet Article, December, 05 2009
Paul Fitzgerald
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The President’s speech is history now. Al Qaeda is still the objective and General Stanley McChrystal will get 30,000 more troops and 18 months to make his counterinsurgency plan work. In a country the size of Afghanistan, even ten times that nu...
Fitzgerald: Afghanistan: No Direction Home
Znet Article, October, 30 2009
Paul Fitzgerald
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We went to Washington to help launch the Afghan American Women's Association established in honor of a lifetime of humanitarian achievements by Sima Wali. We came away with a clear picture that the women of Afghanistan will continue to have a stro...
Fitzgerald: Afghanistan: A history of failed press coverage
Znet Article, October, 27 2009
Paul Fitzgerald
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For decades, the American news media by and large have been simplistic and misleading in reporting U.S. relations toward Afghanistan, write Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, authors of Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story (City Lights ...
Fitzgerald: The US in Afghanistan--Dark Omens
Znet Article, October, 08 2009
Paul Fitzgerald
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Now officially in its ninth year since the invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. should have little reason to recount, in Chalmers Johnson’s words, the Sorrows of Empire. By now everyone on the planet knows by heart the tragic tale. The U.S. invaded...
Fitzgerald: The Afghan Election, A Hidden Denial
Znet Article, October, 01 2009
Paul Fitzgerald
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The Afghan election results are finally in and, to no one's surprise, they have inflamed a crisis of credibility. Afghanistan’s latest effort in democracy was marred by widespread fraud, violence, and intimidation.
Fitzgerald: An Open Letter to Rachel Maddow about Afghanistan
Znet Article, June, 23 2009
Paul Fitzgerald
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Open letter to Rachel Maddow regarding her January 27th interview with Dan Rather on Afghanistan
Fitzgerald: Thinking Like an Afghan
Znet Article, April, 17 2009
Paul Fitzgerald
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For years now, Washington's political class has been locked in a hand-wringing debate over what to do about Afghanistan. Should the U.S. continue to plan for an extended military engagement? Can "moderate" Taliban somehow be peeled away from fanat...
Fitzgerald: Afghanistan, a New Beginning
Znet Article, April, 05 2009
Paul Fitzgerald
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As the Obama administration unveils its new and expanded war plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan, word comes that it has downgraded the so called democracy-building efforts of the Bush administration, that it will negotiate with the so called “mod...
Fitzgerald: The Man Who Shouldn't be King (of Afghanistan)
Znet Article, February, 25 2009
Paul Fitzgerald
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Employing Afghanistan’s drug-dealing warlords is nothing new for Washington...
Fitzgerald: Afghanistan: To Surge or Not to Surge
Znet Article, February, 08 2009
Paul Fitzgerald
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As Barack Obama's administration shifts the U.S. government’s focus away from its “bad war†in Iraq and engages its “good war†in Afghanistan, crucial questions are arising about the plan that have yet to be asked.
Fitzgerald: From the CIA to the ISI to the Lashkar-e-Taiba
Znet Article, December, 18 2008
Paul Fitzgerald
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After early speculation that the recent Mumbai attacks were linked to Pakistan, a former U.S. Defense Department official now asserts that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) had a hand in training the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists.
Fitzgerald: A Message for the New President
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
Paul Fitzgerald
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Come January, President-elect Barack Obama will confront the most difficult foreign policy crisis of his administration with the region-wide-war developing in Afghanistan. If he is to succeed, the new president must immediately change the tone of ...
