Many Americans say Afghan war isn't worth fighting - The Washington Post - 0 views
Afghan army struggles with lack of reach - The Washington Post - 0 views
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"More than 400 Afghan soldiers and police officers are dying each month, and the insurgency remains stronger than many had anticipated. "
Taliban Close Qatar Office to Protest Flag Fracas - ABC News - 0 views
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"The Afghan Taliban have closed their office in the Gulf State of Qatar at least temporarily to protest the removal of a sign they had put up identifying the movement as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, a diplomat and Taliban official said Tuesday."
U.S. Considers Faster Pullout in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"Increasingly frustrated by his dealings with President Hamid Karzai, President Obama is giving serious consideration to speeding up the withdrawal of United States forces from Afghanistan and to a "zero option" that would leave no American troops there after next year, according to American and European officials. "
Postcards from Hell, 2013 - An FP Photo Essay | Foreign Policy - 0 views
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"The distinction of being a "failed state" is inarguably damning, but the 12 indicators factored into this determination highlight how complex it is to measure the weakness of states. A wide range of issues -- wars, hunger, brutal dictatorships, child mortality, economic failure, mass epidemics, political infighting, and the devastating aftermath of natural disasters -- push countries to the brink of failure, or right over the edge. "
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Afghanistan is the 7th worst failed state in the world almost a dozen years after the US invasion and the American taxpayers' trillion dollar price tag.
Afghan government reaffirms support for peace talks after rocky start but wants explana... - 0 views
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"The Afghan peace process, which has made little headway since it began several years ago, is hobbled by distrust among the major players, with the Taliban steadfastly refusing to talk to the Afghan government. "
What have we learned about stabilization in Afghanistan? Not much. - by Ashley Jackson ... - 0 views
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"As of this year, Afghanistan has experienced ten years of stabilization intervention, but what is there to show for it? Marked by massive expenditure with little to no accountability, and often marred by waste, stabilization in Afghanistan started out with arguably honorable aims. However, as troops prepare to leave in 2014, what legacy will be left behind? "
Afghan Government Faces Cash Crunch, I.M.F. Says - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Regional Politics and The Prospects for Stability in Afghanistan | United States Instit... - 0 views
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Interesting US Institute of Peace report on the feared Civil War 2.0 in Afghanistan.
The CIA is Shoveling Millions and Millions of Dollars into Hamid Karzai's Pockets - Aut... - 0 views
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My interview on the Jerry Doyle Show discussing the CIA "ghost money" payments to Pres. Karzai, and our dysfunctional war in Afghanistan.
C.I.A. Delivers Cash to Afghan Leader's Office - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The Great American Folly Machine:
Bernard Bajolet, Leaving Afghanistan, Has His Say - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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At last, a whiff of diplomatic candor about the Western failure in Afghanistan that I covered in "Funding the Enemy."
The Worst Mistake in U.S. History -- America Will Never Recover from Bush's Great Forei... - 0 views
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"To use a few of the catchwords of that moment, it transformed nothing, empowered no one, stabilized and economically uplifted not a single Iraqi. It just sat there empty, dark, and unused in the middle of the desert. Like the chickens, we were plucked. "
Karzai Criticisms Lead to Tensions With Hagel - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"President Hamid Karzai leveled particularly harsh accusations against the United States on Sunday, suggesting that the Americans and the Taliban had a common goal in destabilizing his country. "
AP News: Taliban attack trends: Never mind - 0 views
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"WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S.-led military command in Afghanistan will no longer count and publish the number of Taliban attacks, a statistical measure that it once touted as a gauge of U.S. and allied success but now dismisses as flawed."
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Metrics of failure.
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan? | Foreign Policy - 0 views
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"Here's what some of the foremost experts on the conflict -- from former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to American Enterprise Institute scholar Frederick W. Kagan -- identified as the biggest mistakes of the long war."
APNewsBreak: Report of a drop in Taliban attacks wrong; figures show no decline in Afgh... - 0 views
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"The American-led military coalition in Afghanistan backed off Tuesday from its claim that Taliban attacks dropped off in 2012, tacitly acknowledging a hole in its widely repeated argument that violence is easing and that the insurgency is in steep decline."
Steve Coll: "Al Qaeda": What's in a Name? : The New Yorker - 0 views
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"Yet the empirical case for a worldwide state of war against a corporeal thing called Al Qaeda looks increasingly threadbare. A war against a name is a war in name only."
As U.S. Withdraws Troops, Fears That Afghan Aid Will Dry Up - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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""I've often worried that the lesson from Iraq and Afghanistan - and especially Afghanistan - is that we don't know how to do foreign aid, and therefore we shouldn't continue to provide aid at the levels we have been," said Ms. Wadhams of the Center for American Progress. "
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I detailed aid failure in "Funding the Enemy."