Phyllis Bennis will speak on the topic “8 Years in Afghanistan: Why We Need to Leave.” She’ll provide background on the current situation in Afghanistan, what U.S. policy is leaning toward for the region, and what we can do to tell our representatives that eight years is too many.The presentation is sponsored by Peace Action Wisconsin and Progressive Students of Milwaukee.
The Afghan activist and legislator says no to the United States and NATO, the warlords, and the Taliban, and says yes to democracy.
Should we stay or should we go: that’s the question.
The White House and the Pentagon should heed lessons learned in the past.
Five pillars of an exit strategy for Afghanistan.
No matter how you look at it, the numbers just do not add up for an impossible task in Afghanistan.
The military won’t defeat al-Qaeda and the Taliban, writes Frida Berrigan. Nor will elections in an occupied country solve this problem.
After eight years of bloody fighting, elections are unlikely to bring dramatic change.
Plenty of military options are on the table for Afghanistan, but solutions based on development are sorely lacking.
The United States is arming both India and Pakistan, encouraging India’s nuclear program, and destabilizing the region through its military efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, argues Zia Mian.
In its fight against the Taliban, the Pakistani government is battling a creature of its own making.
In its fight against the Taliban, the Pakistani government is battling a creature of its own making.
Obama’s approach toward the Muslim world may be diplomatic, but it remains the work of mobilized people across the United States to end Obama’s war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, halt the occupation of Iraq immediately rather than years from now, stop U.S. military aid to Israel, and launch new negotiations with Iran not based on military threats.
Obama’s approach toward the Muslim world may be diplomatic but there needs to be more action.
The Bush administration is gone, but covert operations are still going on.