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A wise exodus from Afghanistan
I like this. It’s from yesterday’s New York Times. “Senator Christopher Murphy, a Democrat of Connecticut who supports President Joe…
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The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan was the US’ greatest intel failure ever
History will testify that there has never been a greater intelligence failure for the US than the Taliban’s takeover of…
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Kashmir: What next?
By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai The conflict over the disputed territory of Kashmir is soluble only if pragmatic, realistic and…
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Iran’s atomic bomb?
The panic button on Iran is being pressed again. A report by the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy…
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The aftermath of two decades
By Uzge Saleem A loss of more than $2 trillion dollars, almost 2500 US casualties, four US presidents and two decades…
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Sad collapse in Afghanistan: Political miscalculations overshadow military success
By Raphael Benaroya As I write this, the Taliban have completed their swift takeover of Afghanistan. They have occupied the…
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Courting disaster: How Hun Sen is ignoring trends and creating a perilous position for himself
By Vincenzo Caporale In late June, the Asian Maritime Transparency Initiative produced satellite images that showed Chinese contractors had helped…
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Out of Afghanistan
The Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan in December, 1979 and withdrew, exhausted and demoralized, 10 years later. In Moscow a joke…
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The dangerous pretext of Western intervention
By Abid Wani What the world witnessed with the “Fall of Kabul” is actually a failure of state building project…
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Non-violence’s battlefield success
By any reasonable measure violence should have had its day. Throughout our long history violence and war have solved little.…
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