I keep hearing from official sources that we're getting Afghanistan under control, but I don't believe it. If we are, how is this happening?
The Taliban in Afghanistan has publicly stoned to death a man and a woman over an alleged love affair, government officials said.
I guess a mass of soldiers sitting in your country really doesn't do much to change your quaint ancestral folkways.
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Chris Hedges, the American war correspondent who has authored such books as War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War
On Saturday, a post appeared over at The Corpus Callosum discussing an article that appeared in the Guardian concerning the rapidl
Or something. Look at what we found in Afghanistan:
I hope the Democrats are successful in stopping the Iraq atrocity. Out of Iraq. Now. But I must once again disagree -- strongly disagree -- with the notion that Iraq has distracted us from the "real" war against terrorism, the one in Afghanistan.
I made a couple of comments on this killing and other atrocities at:
http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2010/08/16/460.html
...with an observation that the situation in Afghanistan appears to be worsening.
One thing that I can't find is a free resource on the Internet that explains the history of Afghanistan in a clear, short but sufficiently detailed manner as that of the Lonely Planet guide book on Afghanistan. I therefore recommend that you read this Lonely Planet book. Extracts can be found at:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/afghanistan
However, the following website is quite useful:
http://www.afghan-web.com/history/