Joe Biden’s Tragic Failure to Learn from the Past admin, January 19, 2025January 19, 2025 The Progressive January 18, 2025: On Biden’s foreign policy legacy, comparing his support for a far right Middle Eastern government engaging in massive war crimes with Reagan’s support for far right Central American governments engaged in massive war crimes… [source] Continue Reading
WORT: 9/11 Anniversary admin, September 9, 2021March 16, 2024 9 September 2021: Recording is no longer available. [Find best related links.] Continue Reading
WMNF: US and Afghanistan admin, September 2, 2021March 16, 2024 2 September 2021: Recording is no longer available. [Find best related links.] Continue Reading
KPFA Talkies & Sunday Show: US and Afghanistan admin, August 31, 2021March 16, 2024 31 August 2021: A bomb kills Marines and Afghans trying to flee the Taliban—and the bomber was NOT Taliban. Lessons from the past, analysis of the present, and a peer into the future with Stephen Zunes. Hosted by Kris Welch (starting at 9:45). See also Tazeen Hasan: Afghanistan Continue Reading
KPFA Sunday Show: US and Afghanistan admin, August 29, 2021March 16, 2024 28 August 2021: A bomb kills Marines and Afghans trying to flee the Taliban—and the bomber was NOT Taliban. Lessons from the past, analysis of the present, and a peer into the future with Stephen Zunes. Hosted by Kris Welch (starting at 9:45). See also Tazeen Hasan: Afghanistan Continue Reading
Tazeen Hasan: Afghanistan admin, August 20, 2021March 16, 2024 20 August 2021: Recording is no longer available. Find best Afghanistan links and TazeenHasan.net Continue Reading
CGTN Asia Today: Afghanistan admin, August 19, 2021March 16, 2024 19 August 2021: Recording is no longer available. Find best Afghanistan related links Continue Reading
Media Sanctuary: U.S. and Afghanistan admin, August 18, 2021May 20, 2024 18 August 2021: on [MediaSanctuary.org]Prof. Stephen Zunes Shares Analysis of Afghanistan War, Withdrawal and History. Continue Reading
Radio Islam International: U.S. and Afghanistan admin, August 17, 2021August 14, 2024 17 August 2021: “U.S. Government Still Trying to Come to Terms with How Quickly Taliban Took Over Afghanistan.” Continue Reading
US Policy Toward Afghanistan Was a Recipe for Collapse From the Start admin, August 17, 2021August 14, 2024 We must not allow the tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan to be used to rewrite history and teach the wrong lessons. Continue Reading
Pacifica Radio Flashpoints: US and Afghanistan admin, August 16, 2021August 14, 2024 Pacifica 16 August 2021: US and Afghanistan: Leaving is never easy< Continue Reading
Maintaining U.S. presence in Afghanistan would bolster Taliban: expert says admin, October 19, 2013June 22, 2024 On October 12 Washington and Kabul agreed on a draft deal that would keep some U.S. forces in Afghanistan after 2014, but only if political and tribal leaders in Afghanistan agree to a U.S. demand that U.S. troops not be subject to Afghan Continue Reading
Behind the Headlines: the CIA and Post 9/11 National Security with NY Times Reporter Eric Schmitt (audio) admin, November 22, 2012August 15, 2024 NPR/The Commonwealth Club Continue Reading
The Killing of Bin Laden and the Threat of Al Qaeda admin, May 5, 2011September 1, 2024 The killing of Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama bin Laden is not likely to have a profound impact one way or the other in the struggle against the terrorist organization and its allied groupings. On the one hand, Al-Qaeda may face a potential leadership void and internal divisions. On the other hand, the organization has decentralized in the ten years since the United States and allied forces drove them from their sanctuaries in Afghanistan and terrorist cells operate independently from bin Laden’s leadership and a whole new generation of terrorists subscribing to the apocalyptic and genocidal ideology has sprung up as a result of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Continue Reading
Interview: The Afghanistan Mess (audio) admin, May 10, 2009January 21, 2025 Courage to Resist “Middle East scholar Dr. Stephen Zunes talks about how U.S. imperial hubris helped create, and continues to deepen and intensify the deadly chaos in Afghanistan. “The war not only was raised some moral and legal questions, but it has not resolved the situation, it has made matters worse. The problem is that there has been a gross oversight on the military side of the equation. The really important issues have been overlooked.” Continue Reading
The U.S. and Afghan Tragedy admin, March 18, 2009January 21, 2025 One of the first difficult foreign policy decisions of the Obama administration will be what the United States should do about Afghanistan. Escalating the war, as National Security Advisor Jim Jones has been encouraging, will likely make matters worse. At the same time, simply abandoning the country — as the United States did after the overthrow of Afghanistan’s Communist government soon after the Soviet withdrawal 20 years ago — would lead to another set of serious problems…. Continue Reading
Holbrooke: Insensitive Choice for a Sensitive Region admin, January 30, 2009January 21, 2025 Obama’s choice for special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, arguably the most critical area of U.S. foreign policy, is a man with perhaps the most sordid history of any of the largely disappointing set of foreign policy and national security appointments…. Continue Reading
Pakistan’s Dictatorships and the United States admin, November 9, 2007 In his 2005 inaugural address, President George W. Bush declared that the United States would support democratic movements around the world and work to end tyranny. Furthermore, he pledged to those struggling for freedom that the United States would “not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors.” Despite these promises,… Continue Reading
Operation Enduring Freedom: A Retrospective admin, October 17, 2006July 16, 2024 It has become a given, even among many progressive critics of Bush administration policy, that while the U.S. war on Iraq was illegal, immoral, unnecessary, poorly executed, and contrary to America’s national security interests, the war on Afghanistan?which was launched five years ago last week?was a legal, moral, and a necessary response to protect American national security in the aftermath of 9/11. Virtually every member of Congress who has gone on record opposing the Iraq War supported the Afghanistan War. Similarly, a number of soldiers who have resisted serving in Iraq on moral grounds have expressed their willingness to serve in Afghanistan…. Continue Reading
Afghanistan: Five Years Later admin, October 13, 2006July 16, 2024 On the fifth anniversary of the launch of the U.S.-led war against Afghanistan, the Taliban is on the offensive, much of the countryside is in the hands of warlords and opium magnates, U.S. casualties are mounting, and many, if not most, Afghans are actually worse off now than they were before the U.S. invasion…. Continue Reading