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Listening to Locals
It was bad news when the Pentagon announced it was making Major General Jay Hood the senior DOD official in Pakistan"because he was commander of the Guantanamo prison facility. I couldn’t offer any opinion on what role he played in the abuses, or what he did about it, because I just... Read more...
Published 10 hours ago

The Inexplicable Longevity of Selig S. Harrison
Selig S. Harrison has a curious relationship with reality"that is to say, not much of one. Three years ago, he wrote in Foreign Affairs that the U.S. was to blame for North Korea’s violation of the Agreed Framework he helped to negotiate with Jimmy Carter in 1994. While the tone of the... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Who Needs Thomas Barnett’s Discarded Theories?
Remember that terrible Laura King piece in the LA Times, where she proclaims the wonder of realizing Afghans like their cellphones, too? (Kayumars found much else to mock at the LA Times as well, over their relentless exotification of brown-skinned people.) Beyond her silly argument, there was... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

At Least It Was A Two-fer
The David Ignatius follow-up to his first government press release disguised as a newspaper column: JALALABAD, Afghanistan — The most interesting discovery during a visit to this city where Osama bin Laden planted his flag in 1996 is that al-Qaeda seems to have all but disappeared. The... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Georgia Inches Closer
Abkhazia is claiming to have shot down yet another drone, this time by a surprisingly advanced anti-aircraft system. While Abkhaz officials claim they are just defending their sovereign territory, Georgian officials are claiming Russia is trying to bait them into a war. It is a very serious... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Karmov-GMK
President Karimov has asserted greater control over the Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Works (NGMK), the company that runs Uzbekistan’s largest gold and uranium mines. … Karimov has appointed a Supervisory Council to manage the mine. Its members will serve one-year terms. Preparations... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Digging Deeper into the Pashtun Tribal Areas
First off, here are two excellent segments from Al Jazeera English on the issues facing the NWFP and FATA in Pakistan. Oh look, there’s Bill Roggio arguing with Pakistanis about the issues facing the tribal areas. It is interesting to hear Jalil Afridi, the editor of the Frontier... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

Persian Games in Afghanistan
Richard Boucher, Assistant SecState for Central and South Asia, is making funny noises: “They (Iran) interfere in a variety of different ways, perhaps not as violently as they do sometimes in Iraq,” Richard Boucher, assistant secretary of state for south and central Asia, told... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

Pragmatism, Not Idealism
The Marines are talking sense: The Taliban, whose fighters are exchanging daily fire with the Marines in Garmser [Helmand], derives up to $100 million a year from the poppy harvest by taxing farmers and charging safe passage fees " money that will buy weapons for use against U.S., NATO and Afghan... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

But I Thought Roads Helped Security?
Posted without comment. India not to take up new road projects in Afghanistan New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) After the latest killings of its personnel by Taliban militants in Afghanistan, Indias Border Roads Organisation (BRO) Tuesday said it is unlikely to take up any more projects in the... Read more...
Published 6 days ago