Developing To see a list of previous articles, enter “Ukraine” in the Search Box on the upper right, on The Trenchant Observer web site, and…
UPDATE June 23, 2015 Europe is setting up a special police unit to monitor jihadist sites and content, andd to remove it. See Richard Spencer,…
(Developing) See: Corine Lesnes (Washington), “Menacée par un rapport sur la torture, la CIA soupçonnée de piratage du Sénat américain, Le Monde, 12 mars 2012…
It is sometimes stunning to observe how journalists at leading U.S. newspapers can write about some recent action Hamid Karzai has taken against U.S. interests…
News reports suggest that President Obama has decided to provide arms to the insurgents in Syria, but the exact nature of the arms and possible…
Another day of fighting in northern Mali, with French aerial bombardments of insurgent positions; U.S. appears disinterested. See Afua Hirsch in Bamako and Kim Willsher…
As 2011 begins, it is useful to consider where the U.S. and the world are in terms of developing and implementing foreign policies that address…
When someone like Karzai persistently directs lies and insults against you, while you are funding the very security that enables him to stay in power, you must either stand up and burst the bonds of a dependent and abusive relationship, or suffer the consequencdes of being a wimp.
In this case, the consequnces of being a wimp are likely to be the continued loss of American and Allied lives and treasure, to no avail, and eventually the collapse of the Afghan government.
To the Observer, the idea of trying to make Karzai a more central player in efforts to root out corruption in his own government sounds like giving Al Capone a more central role in cleaning up Chicago.
The truth behind the incoherence in American policy in Afghanistan is beginning to come out. The CIA has been paying many top Afghan officials for…
Quotation “La guerre, c’est une chose trop grave pour la confier à des militaires.” “War is too serious a matter to just be handed over…
Robert Baer’s GQ article on the attack on the CIA base in Khost province and what it suggests about the capabilities of the CIA has…
The situation in Afghanistan is desperate. (Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post, September 14, 2009). The U.S. tilt toward Karzai during the electoral process may be related…
