David Miliband: Do you think President Hamid Karzi will be able to provide a stable situation in Afghanistan with his new cabinet? Mr President Hamid Karzi has possessed presidential election through corruption. Do you think he will be able to eliminate corruption from the country itself ? Do you think Mr Karzi has education, health, […]
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, watch this Irishman named Patrick speak his mind on the current American strategy and presence in Afghanistan and the lack of media coverage of the war: Kennedy does a more than fair job offering a critique of the American presence in Afghanistan and President Obama’s counterinsurgency/Drone attack strategy. But […]
We at the Foreign Policy Association welcome new blogger for Afghanistan, Tahera Nassrat. I, in particular, am very excited to have her expertise and unique perspective brought to this blog. Here is more about Tahera, our new blogger: Tahera was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. She finished her primary education in Kabul and higher education in […]
As if the actual invasion had not blown up in his face enough already, Saakashvili decided to score another own goal – this time with a virtual one. On Saturday evening, countless Georgians saw what they believed to be news reports of a Russian invasion. What happened then resembled the aftermath of the original broadcast […]
Government, After collapse of Taliban regime, Afghanistan first democratic presidential election took place in October 2004. Hamid Karzai has been elected as president of Afghanistan. Ten million Afghans, more than a third of the country, registered to vote, including more than 40% of eligible women. Karzai was declared the winner in November, taking 55% of […]
Or should I say, ‘Continue!’ When it comes to the geopolitical game, Afghanistan President Karzai, Iranian President Ahmadinejad, and US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates are more than willing to let the dice roll. Gates got to go first, when he made an unannounced visit to Kabul earlier in the week, and was followed by […]
Foreign Policy Association’s Water’s Edge series currently features an article by Daniel Widome analyzing President Obama’s surge strategy by taking a closer look into the Marja offensive and recent arrests of high ranking Taliban members inside of Pakistan. Here’s an excerpt: Taken together, the operation in Marja and the arrests in Pakistan could signal an […]
Who celebrates International Women’s Day anymore? 100 years since its inception, the venerable event could use a lift. While it remains an official national holiday in Russia, time and government cooptation have dulled its radical roots as it transformed into an apolitical celebration of femininity and spring time – a sort of Eastern European Mother’s […]
If you know your internet memes, you’ve probably already met Eduard Hill, the ‘Soviet Rick Astley’ whose somewhat sinister lip-synched song is being sent by scores of bemused American hipsters to their unwitting friends. Meanwhile, their counterparts in the Russian blogosphere are getting fired up by a much more literal car crash; in which a […]
When it comes to prognosticating, the most dangerous game political scientists play (game theory can be quite scary though), about Afghanistan’s future, you could do a lot worse than Central Asian analysts Joshua Foust and Ahmed Rashid. In two recent pieces, Foust in the New York Times and Rashid in a lecture in Philadelphia, each […]
Following the current events in Afghanistan is not for the faint of heart, but one specific recurring story is by far the most distressing for me: The continuous attacks on education facilities, teachers, and most appalling, students by extremists. While modern Afghanistan has never been home to a strong educational system, ever since the Taliban […]
Once the foreigners who dared to push Russia from the podium have been taken care of (via strategic bombers and lethal psychological warfare), heads will roll over the country’s worst Olympics in history, assured Medvedev yesterday. But whose? Well, sports minister Vitaly Mutko says it wasn’t his fault; it was the stoopid new sports, dastardly […]
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