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Biden should stop making excuses — it’s time to leave Afghanistan
Mar 25, 2021 14:04US Presidents from Carter to Biden — with a brief Clintonian interlude while Afghanistan was left to burn from the inside out — have played a politics of merciless intervention in that country. This meddling wrought a terrible price 20 years ago, in Afghanistan and the U.S., and the bleeding has never stopped.
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After 20 years, US establishment is still in denial about Afghanistan
Mar 11, 2021 09:29In Afghanistan, the United States and its international allies have made mistakes that are well documented,” yet they never bother to identify any of those mistakes or explore their significance.
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On the 20th anniversary of the so-called “war on terror,” is there any end in sight?
Jan 12, 2021 19:51America’s twenty-first-century wars have, instead, been tragedies for millions and have led to a proliferation of threats that damaged the United States in fundamental ways
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Report blames Trump admin for 330% rise in Afghan civilian casualties
Dec 10, 2020 20:58A report by Brown University Watson Institute's Costs of War Project—one of the premier authorities on civilian casualties in the 19-year so-called War on Terror—found a 330% increase in the number of Afghan civilians killed by U.S.-led airstrikes from 2016, the final year of the Obama administration, to 2019.
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Because she was wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, Daniel Ellsberg joins campaign against Flournoy
Dec 09, 2020 13:57Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and Nobel Prize-winning peace activist Jody Williams on Friday, December 4th both joined a grassroots progressive campaign urging Joe Biden not to nominate Michèle Flournoy as his Pentagon chief, warning her ties to the weapons industry, hawkish record, and current positions disqualify her for the powerful role.
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In Afghanistan, American troops patrol the same routes their fathers did
Oct 18, 2020 20:47Thousands of US troops continue to pace and patrol exactly the same routes as their predecessors did in 2001, fighting a seemingly endless conflict that both the American and Afghan public have long since soured on.
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Why US will continue to occupy Afghanistan
Oct 16, 2020 21:55After 19 years of continuous attacks by the US and its allies, the Taliban have not been wiped out, but have become stronger. They not only controlled most of Afghanistan's territory, but also forced US to sit down and negotiate with them. If the US military completely withdraws from Afghanistan in accordance with the agreement, based on the current balance of forces in Afghanistan, peace will return to the country.
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Time for US to pull out of Yemen
Jul 10, 2020 11:35As maintained by many US officials and Pentagon commanders, the US-backed Saudi-led war on Yemen is unwinnable – despite the attempts by Riyadh to escalate the war even further. Five years into this unnecessary bloodshed should be more than enough for the War Party to reach conclusion that what it has on its hands is yet another endless war that like the one in Afghanistan is unwinnable.
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ICC denounces 'unprecedented attacks' by Trump administration
Jun 14, 2020 19:17The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday hit back at a decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to authorize sanctions against any official investigating American troops over war crimes in Afghanistan.
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Bomb blast indicates US plot to hand Afghanistan to Taliban
May 13, 2020 19:16The so-called US-sponsored peace process in Afghanistan has led to led to another deadly bomb attack in Nehr-e Sirat of Helmand Province and was claimed by the Taliban signatory to the American deal worked out earlier this year in Doha, the capital of the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar, without the participation of the Afghan government.