tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25076331005524481762024-02-29T21:39:51.501-08:00 Afghanistan War And waving our red weapons o'er our heads<br>
Let's all cry 'Peace, Freedom, Liberty!'<br>
Shakespeare - Julius CaesarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8579125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-84045709780378166032018-09-19T10:17:00.000-07:002018-09-19T10:19:04.619-07:00Merger Of Blogs<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: red;">From today the blogs 'Afghanistan War' and 'Wolves In The City' will merge into one. All future posts on the continuing Afghansitan debacle will be posted on </span><a href="http://www.neoclassics.blogspot.com/"><i><span style="color: yellow;">www.neoclassics.blogspot.com</span></i></a><span style="color: red;"> where normal service, including daily coverage of the all-but-forgotten Afghan War will continue as normal.</span></b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-21931916452402534922018-09-19T08:53:00.001-07:002018-09-19T08:53:07.965-07:00Afghanistan and Syria: Twin failures of US policy <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKy1rFZTJOyBb3ciYKZggaj2bJ9muOXMBQ8_UTWQ_0ZsbfeDkuPkybfw75UEPfgjDu1Iyu_zzaI7P79EpOsN6i0LtyqiYmldwF5ktzw1G6xBmf9vQwH3yvsxPpL-B_XBd8JoWPJFw4xXQ/s1600/bomm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="780" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKy1rFZTJOyBb3ciYKZggaj2bJ9muOXMBQ8_UTWQ_0ZsbfeDkuPkybfw75UEPfgjDu1Iyu_zzaI7P79EpOsN6i0LtyqiYmldwF5ktzw1G6xBmf9vQwH3yvsxPpL-B_XBd8JoWPJFw4xXQ/s400/bomm.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.stripes.com/opinion/afghanistan-and-syria-twin-failures-of-us-policy-1.548207">Afghanistan and Syria: Twin failures of US policy - Opinion - Stripes</a>: </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>None of the 16 previous commanders prevented Afghanistan from becoming a “safe haven” for terrorists. This is a fatally flawed strategy at the national level.<br />The multi-sided political problems in the fourth-most corrupt country in the world — with a neighboring country that provides constant safe haven for the insurgents — cannot be solved militarily. Even so, the unwillingness to recognize a mismatch between ends and means extends far beyond Kabul.<br />On Sept. 11, President Donald Trump tweeted a veiled warning to Syria’s Bashar Assad stating that it would be a “grave humanitarian mistake” if he were to make a military move to recapture this last rebel stronghold of Idlib province in his country.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-57502993116643071142018-09-18T04:03:00.003-07:002018-09-18T04:03:58.157-07:00Nine police die in Afghan 'insider' attack <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/2018/09/18/16/32/nine-police-die-in-afghan-insider-attack">Nine police die in Afghan 'insider' attack - 9News</a>: </i>Mohammadudin Khanjer, a police official in the district of Char Boldak, says one policeman was wounded and three others were missing after the shooting late on Monday.<br />Khanjer says the attacker was a policeman from another checkpoint in the same district who fled the scene, apparently to join the Taliban.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In northwestern Badghis province, five officers were killed, including Abdul Hakim, the police commander of a reserve unit, in an attack that took place near the provincial capital of Qala-i-Now.<br />Jamshid Shahabi, a spokesman for the Badghis governor, said around 22 Taliban fighters were killed and 16 others were wounded during the gunbattle there.<br />And in northern Baghlan province, the Taliban launched attacks against a shared army and police base, killing three army and two police officers, said General Ekramuddin Serih, the provincial police chief.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-21536371506412035902018-09-16T07:18:00.001-07:002018-09-16T07:18:33.226-07:00Ghani informs of major changes in the security leadership in Kabul <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.khaama.com/ghani-informs-of-major-changes-in-the-security-leadership-in-kabul-05965/">Ghani informs of major changes in the security leadership in Kabul - The Khaama Press News Agency</a>: </i>The Office of the President, ARG Palace, in a statement said the directors of the private schools shared their concerns and issues regarding the private schools, particularly the security concerns.<br />
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In his turn, President Ghani offered condolences regarding the recent incidents and called the attacks in West of Kabul city, an attack on the unity and religious solidarity of the people of Afghanistan.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-57155711078538529552018-09-16T03:53:00.001-07:002018-09-16T07:19:09.350-07:00NATO changes strategy for patrols in Afghanistan | Radio Prague<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.radio.cz/en/section/news/nato-changes-strategy-for-patrols-in-afghanistan">NATO changes strategy for patrols in Afghanistan | Radio Prague</a>: </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, DAB head Khalil Seddiq said some profiteers are hoarding of foreign currency as Iranian Rial and Pakistani rupees are also losing their values against the US dollars.<br />He also cited the hike in the US value and high demand of the USD in Iran and Pakistan and decline in Iranian and Pakistani currency as other reasons behind the soaring USD value in Afghanistan.<br />Other factors such as trade deficit, low domestic production and political instability and insecurity further contribute to the decline in Afghan currency.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-53921444981615509912018-09-14T03:03:00.001-07:002018-09-14T03:03:29.145-07:00Afghan father who sought refuge in UK 'shot dead by Taliban' after being deported <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/zainadin-fazlie-deport-home-office-taliban-afghanistan-shot-dead-refugee-a8536736.html">Afghan father who sought refuge in UK 'shot dead by Taliban' after being deported by Home Office | The Independent</a>: </i></b></span><br /><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Zainadin Fazlie had lived in London with his wife, who had refugee status, and their four British-born children. But after committing a number of minor offences, the 47-year-old was sent back to Afghanistan after 16 years in Britain, despite threats to his life.<br />
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Last Friday, his wife Samira Fazlie found out he had been shot by Taliban forces after seeing an image of his dead body on Facebook.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-15103618587104790012018-09-13T05:34:00.001-07:002018-09-13T05:34:54.590-07:00US project for Afghan women slammed as a flop <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.pajhwok.com/en/2018/09/13/us-project-afghan-women-slammed-flop">US project for Afghan women slammed as a flop | Pajhwok Afghan News</a>: </i></b></span><br /><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The programme, which was described as the world’s biggest project for female empowerment, aimed to help 75,000 Afghan women get jobs, promotions and internships.<br />
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However, Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction John L. Sopko said in a report: “We can’t find any good data that they’re helping any women.”<br />
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The promotion of 55 women to better jobs was cited one of the few concrete results in the report, which said that it was unclear whether the project could even be credited for the promotions.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-73560717710712121282018-09-13T03:07:00.000-07:002018-09-13T03:07:31.508-07:00Afghanistan Peace Talks Stick on Bases: US Wants 2, Taliban None<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/us-afghan-peace/4569725.html">Afghanistan Peace Talks Stick on Bases: US Wants 2, Taliban None</a>: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The “U.S. wants the Taliban to accept at least two military bases, Bagram and Shorabak. The Taliban are not willing to accept it,” Muzhda said, adding the insurgent leaders are unwilling to accept anything more than a nominal number of troops required to secure the U.S. diplomatic mission.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Recent statements from the Trump administration suggest that the United States is now preparing to go to war against the ICC itself, motivated largely by an effort to silence investigations into alleged American war crimes committed in Afghanistan, as well as alleged crimes committed by Israel during the 2014 war in the Gaza Strip. In a speech at a D.C. event held by the Federalist Society on Monday, Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton denounced the ICC as “illegitimate” and expressed his intentions toward the institution in no uncertain terms. “We will not cooperate with the ICC,” Bolton said. “We will provide no assistance to the ICC. We will not join the ICC. We will let the ICC die on its own. After all, for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us.”</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-38968722551749645542018-09-11T12:33:00.001-07:002018-09-11T12:33:25.210-07:00100 killed in Afghan violence<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/news/100-killed-afghan-violence-1632628">100 killed in Afghan violence | The Daily Star</a>: </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Our longest war drags on, and President Trump’s instincts and inclinations tell him to learn from the Soviet Union’s mistake a generation earlier: Get out of Afghanistan. ASAP. With Chief of Staff John Kelly’s policy role diminished and a refreshed national security team, the White House has quieted support for a continued large U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-78980200780247072602018-09-10T03:47:00.003-07:002018-09-10T03:47:35.059-07:00Official: Taliban Attacks on Afghan Security Forces Kill 37 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://time.com/5391334/afghanistan-taliban-attacks-kunduz/">Official: Taliban Attacks on Afghan Security Forces Kill 37 | Time</a>: </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mohammad Yusouf Ayubi, head of the provincial council in Kunduz province, said that at least 13 security forces were killed in an attack on a checkpoint they were manning in Dashti Archi district, with another 15 security forces wounded there. The firefight began late Sunday and continued into Monday morning.<br />Meanwhile in Jawzjan province, Provincial Police Chief Gen. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani said the Taliban attacked Khamyab district from different directions, forcing Afghan forces to withdraw from the district headquarters to avoid civilian causalities.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-88128143743914187122018-09-10T03:23:00.000-07:002018-09-10T03:23:12.080-07:00Zalmay Khalilzad Appointed As U.S. Special Adviser To Afghanistan <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYM17VCQ1AyC-JVlGqb_q_G_h-huCtQes8avnYtGANh5bxpaPKYoBUYXd1nm37OYhWXOYgKc86wsTowZ01Mh1dtQ4UOsOcyzyy_-yl1BAzWTiAJgfhefmsEn2U14RMD6Ps9TYpP8y3XQk/s1600/Afmap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="620" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYM17VCQ1AyC-JVlGqb_q_G_h-huCtQes8avnYtGANh5bxpaPKYoBUYXd1nm37OYhWXOYgKc86wsTowZ01Mh1dtQ4UOsOcyzyy_-yl1BAzWTiAJgfhefmsEn2U14RMD6Ps9TYpP8y3XQk/s400/Afmap.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/641094135/zalmay-khalilzad-appointed-as-u-s-special-adviser-to-afghanistan">Zalmay Khalilzad Appointed As U.S. Special Adviser To Afghanistan : NPR</a>: </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The war has become more expensive, in current dollars, than the Marshall Plan, which helped rebuild Europe after World War II. That investment has created intense pressure for Americans to show that the Taliban are losing and Afghanistan is improving.<br />But since 2017, the Taliban have held more Afghan territory than at any time since the U.S. invasion. In just one week last month, insurgents killed 200 Afghan police officers and soldiers, overrunning two major Afghan bases and the city of Ghazni.<br />The Taliban took everything but a few government facilities during their attack last month in the strategic city in southeastern Afghanistan.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-2557459076513122772018-09-08T03:33:00.000-07:002018-09-08T03:33:00.181-07:00How the U.S. Government Misleads the Public on Afghanistan <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/08/world/asia/us-misleads-on-afghanistan.html">How the U.S. Government Misleads the Public on Afghanistan - The New York Times</a>: </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The American military says the Afghan government effectively “controls or influences” 56 percent of the country. But that assessment relies on statistical sleight of hand. In many districts, the Afghan government controls only the district headquarters and military barracks, while the Taliban control the rest.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2507633100552448176.post-6455482368071581302018-09-08T03:29:00.002-07:002018-09-08T03:29:56.409-07:00The Endless War<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://theweek.com/articles/794399/afghanistan-endless-war">Afghanistan, the endless war</a>: </i></b></span><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Afghan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Afghan</a> journalists continue to pay heavy price covering the war. <a href="https://twitter.com/FrudBezhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FrudBezhan</a> reports 14 journalists have been killed so far in 2018 including two tolo news reporters killed yesterday. <a href="https://t.co/6aJsBsoJ9n">pic.twitter.com/6aJsBsoJ9n</a></div>
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