…hope of a turnaround anytime soon. The simultaneous operations in Afghanistan and Iraq are running around $60b per year, so we can forgive the administration that. On the other hand,…

…protesters should change to “US stay in Iraq”. For that matter, this should be the slogan of most people. In Afghanistan, we basically (1) overthrew the Taliban (good), (2) installed…

…thereby? Fullfilling committments in Afghanistan would help. Engaging on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might help. Ending sanctions against Iraq might help. And for that matter, removing Saddam and financing the building…

…the Muslim world. Certainly, not starting this war would be a good start on improving relations. But war or no, the administration should fulfill the commitments we made in Afghanistan,…

…it is therefore unjust. Here’s a pretty easy one to try for yourself: the Taliban system in Afghanistan, circa late 1990s (you have about a 50% chance of being a…

…no legitimate reason for this country to be involved in Afghanistan militarily, and that there has been no reason for a decade or so. It already looks likely that the…

…of whom have fought for this country in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan or by keeping the mom-and-pop store going and the home fires burning, pay for Bush’s wars instead…

…hadn’t been declared was launched and the bombing of Afghanistan began, after the CIA and Washington targeted up to 80 countries in a “worldwide attack matrix” — later given the…

…inevitable extreme difficulty of the necessary war in Afghanistan would have caused a big shift. 4) Re inventing government. IIRC the idea was that it was possible to achieve progressive…

…the wealthy) while cutting food stamps (especially necessary for urban poor), huge increases in military activity (wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and “enemy combatants” jailed forever at Guantanamo without due…