By Patricia Gossman | Associate Asia Director | – ( Human Rights Watch) – As reports mount of grave human rights abuses by the Taliban in Afghanistan, the United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session this week. It should immediately mandate the strongest possible monitoring mechanism. Before their takeover of Kabul on […]
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Afghanistan
Climate Emergency v. Afghanistan: Why do TV Cable News, Pols ignore the greatest Terror Threat to the US in History?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American cable TV news has been on an Afghanistan jag since the Taliban rapidly advanced in the country, with wall to wall coverage and expressions of dismay and umbrage directed at President Biden not just on Fox but also CNN and even MSNBC. Afghanistan is an important story, to be […]
What Future Awaits Afghanistan? Arirang interview with Juan Cole, Experts (Video)
Arirang Interview with Juan Cole and other Experts: Islamic militant group Taliban has taken control of Afghanistan on August 15th. As soon as the U.S. withdrew its troops from the country, the Taliban swept the nation and reclaimed the Afghan government for the first time in twenty years. President Ashraf Ghani has reportedly fled the […]
Juan Cole Explains How The #Taliban Returned To Power In #Afghanistan So Quickly (David Feldman Video)
Professor Juan Cole explains the rise of the Taliban and the rapid fall of the American supported Afghanistan government in this conversation with Professor Adnan Husain. Professor Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan as well as the editor of Informed Comment (juancole.com). Professor Adnan Husain is […]
The Endless Shadow of the War on Terror: Living With It Forever and a Day
( Tomdispatch.com) – It ended in chaos and disaster. Kabul has fallen and Joe Biden is being blamed (by congressional Republicans in particular) for America’s now almost-20-year disaster in Afghanistan. But is the war on terror itself over? Apparently not. It seems like centuries ago, but do you remember when, in May 2003, President George […]
Top 6 Ways Trump forced Abrupt US Departure from Afghanistan; and that Time Trump said Taliban would take over War on Terror
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 1. in December, 2018, Trump ordered that half of the then 14,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan be brought out. The decision so angered then Secretary of Defense James Mattis that he abruptly resigned his position. Then Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Joseph Dunford said he had not recommended […]
An Afghan American scholar describes his fear-filled journey from the chaos at Kabul airport to a plane bound for home in the US
By Hanif Sufizada | – Editor’s note: Afghan scholar Hanif Sufizada, who works at the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha, got caught in Kabul during the chaos of the U.S. military pullout, when thousands of Afghans fled to the airport, seeking a way out of the country. Editor Catesby Holmes […]
Biden: After Trump-Taliban Treaty, Draw-down, Staying in Afghanistan would have Required a New War
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden on Friday gave some further insight into his decision to leave Afghanistan, and refuted some of his critics’ talking points concisely and convincingly. Let me back up and explain that the Military-Industrial Complex spokespersons, like Gen. (ret’d) David Petraeus, criticized Biden for being unwilling to stay in […]
Why Biden Is Right to End the War in Afghanistan
Now our obligation is to those Afghans living with the consequences of our four decades of intervention