Articles tagged with: Politics of Afghanistan
Afghanistan: America’s Co-dependent Stepchild
After almost ten years of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, the American people have almost nothing to show for their spent treasure, spilled blood, and thousands of disabled sons and daughters. Not only is the war against the Taliban insurgents going badly, but the entire Afghan economy has become totally dependent on the billions of dollars of military spending, combined with …
Afghanistan : The Opium Den of the World
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Once again, the weird and wacky world of Afghanistan politics has taken center stage. The issue this time, like many other times in the past, is Afghanistan’s bumper crop of illegal heroin. As the world’s leading supplier of heroin for decades, if not centuries, the population of this impoverished and war-torn nation know full well the importance of …
Ahmadinejad in Afghanistan
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At the same time that U.S. troops in Afghanistan are putting their lives on the line fighting Taliban and al Qaida insurgents, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Kabul. As could be expected, Ahmadinejad has taken this opportunity to sharply criticize the U.S. for its military presence in Afghanistan, and …
