Pakistan cracks down on its militants to control, not extinguish, their movements.
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The U.S. conducts drone strikes worldwide with relative impunity. But when the first strike hits the United States, the real blowback will begin.
It's not too late for the United States to help get Afghanistan back on its feet.
From suicide bombers in the Middle East to drone operators in the United States, youth-on-youth violence has become epidemic.
American military technology transformed remote, landlocked Afghanistan into the world’s first true narco-state.
If the Taliban were allowed to assume command of the Afghan ship of state, it might ameliorate its harsh ways.
The chain of events set into motion by the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq is reaching its logical conclusion — the disintegration of multi-ethnic states and a great expulsion of innocents.
After the United States has been in Afghanistan for 14 years, 91,000 Afghans have
been killed and 26,000 wounded.
In the wake of the Peshawar school shooting, the Pakistan government has supposedly given the military carte blanche to take out the Taliban.
The United States military placed its troops in harm’s way by spreading them too thin across Afghanistan.