R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch
To read Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s assessment of the war in Afghanistan is to reach some disturbing conclusions about a conflict in which the United States has been engaged for eight years:
Fighting in the Khyber Pass between Afghanistan and that part of India that's now Pakistan was never as romantic as in movies. And it won't be this time around, either.
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains
and the women come…
As was expected, President George W. Bush commuted the sentences of two border patrol guards, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who had been sentenced to more than 10 years in jail for seriously wounding a suspected drug runner. They now are…
Not good: “‘More than 100 terror camps’ in operation in northwestern Pakistan”
A few days ago I wrote about the deteriorating situation in northwestern Pakistan and the rise of Taliban power and influence there. Apparently the situation is even worse than the…
The situation in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), which borders Afghanistan, has been going steadily downhill since 2006, when the Taliban began their campaign against the provincial and national Pakistani governments there.
To make a long story short, Pervez Musharraf’s government responded with a schizophrenic policy,…
