President Barack Obama's West Point speech provided a clear policy road map for the United States and our allies in Afghanistan. The increase of 30,000 troops is closely linked to renewed efforts to persuade NATO allies to expand their own contributions. In 18 months, we will begin to bring our combat troops home. Beyond this immediate debate, the approach of setting a limit to our combat involvement is directly reminiscent of the Vietnam War. This strategy addresses the virulent expansion in strength of Taliban insurgents, while also making explicit that the American commitment is not open-ended, and the regime of President Hamid Karzai in Kabul must demonstrate progress in combating corruption as well as the enemy in the field.
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It is a shame but ignorance rules in society. A recent survey showed that only 17 percent of the people could point out the location of Afghanistan on a map. My friend continued "So we went to war right after September 11th with people who were not even Arab?" I said: "That's correct." She snapped indignantly "I knew it. I knew George Bush lied to us." At this point I could no longer sustain the conversation. Imam Ali, the Prophet Muhammad's cousin, had a famous saying; "I never met a learned man that I could not defeat in debate, but never have I defeated an ignorant man. I spent six hours one day with an out of state journalist who was doing a story on Arab Americans in Dearborn. I told him that "Dearborn has the largest concentration of Arabs outside of the Middle East." It is a fam...
What sort of agenda will David Petraeus pursue as director of the CIA, after he leaves Afghanistan later this month? He laid out a basic road map in his June 23 confirmation hearing. After spending a week with Petraeus' entourage in Kabul, perhaps I can add a few guideposts. Petraeus knows the agency needs a strong leader who can motivate and also discipline a sometimes stubborn secret bureaucracy. He knows, too, that the CIA culture is insular -- good at co-opting the outsiders it likes and at undercutting those it doesn't. But he has coped with similarly strong cultures within the military and doesn't seem worried about the poison darts that may come his way.
Regardless of whether Afghan President Hamid Karzai is re- elected in August, of whether the Taliban can adapt to the new counterinsurgency strategy of Central Command leader Gen. David H. Petraeus, and of the cost to modernize and democratize Afghanistan, the United States will be there for a very long time. Afghanistan is just too critical geographically and strategically important. Few Americans could locate Afghanistan on a map before Sept. 11, 2001, and even fewer have been there. But in the intervening 7 1/2 years, many have come to know at least that Afghanistan represents a historic crossroads. Alexander the Great's army called it Bactria; Genghis Khan's Mongol hordes passed through on their way to Europe; Marco Polo chronicled exotic tales of the Silk Road, visiting Samarkand, ...
MARJAH, Afghanistan - Maj. Mubarak Shah strode confidently into the U.S. Marine Corps combat center with important intelligence: Three Taliban fighters were preparing to attack a nearby checkpoint. The tall, lanky Afghan police commander, part of Afghanistan's new elite police force, pointed out the Taliban ambush spot on a wall-sized satellite map at Combat Outpost Turbett as his men and a team of Marines prepared for a fight.
How can an Alabama teachers' union brag about its refusal to accept Darwinian evolution - as if basic biology could be meaningfully taught without it? Why is there debate about whether global warming is real, despite overwhelming scientific consensus that it is? How can a new Pew poll show that 40 percent of Americans claim not to know what religion President Obama adheres to, or that as many as 18 percent think he is a Muslim, despite his repeated avowal of his Christian faith? For some time now, Americans have been making a spectacle of their own ignorance. Despite thousands of U.S. casualties and massive news coverage, only 63 percent of young adults can locate Iraq on a map, while 88 percent cannot locate Afghanistan. Two- thirds of Americans cannot name the three branches of govern...
Thousands of Fort Carson soldiers have come and gone from Iraq in the past few years -- many more than once -- yet most people around here don't quite know where in the world they went. When it comes to finding Afghanistan on a map, they're really lost.
There are about 900 Mainers with the Army and Air National Guard deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Afghanistan (map):
In an April speech to the Association of American Universities, Defense Secretary Robert Gates outlined plans for the Minerva Consortia -- a program to provide Pentagon funding to universities for research in the social sciences to better understand foreign countries and cultures. The project will examine four topics: China's military modernization; translation of documents seized in Iraq; religious and ideological studies of Islamic radicalism; and the New Disciplines Project, involving the studies of history, anthropology, sociology and evolutionary psychology. The teams map the human terrain in Iraq and Afghanistan and use "soft power" to engage local populations, said Andre van Tilborg, deputy undersecretary of Defense for science and technology. The teams functioned not just as cul...
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