Tag Archives: Afganistan

They Just Don’t Get It

By chris | Published: 22 November 2009
In an interview with the Guardian at the end of a visit to Kabul for the presidential inauguration of Hamid Karzai, the foreign secretary said: “If international forces leave, you can choose a time – five minutes, 24 hours or seven days – but the insurgent forces will overrun those forces that are prepared to [...]
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The Horror

By chris | Published: 8 November 2009
The opening of the New York Times editorial on Saturday made little sense. It is always a shock — and a cause for deep sadness — when a gunman fires malevolently at crowds of innocent people. We have seen it far too often: at Columbine High School in Colorado a decade ago; on the campus of [...]
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Barack Obama

By chris | Published: 21 September 2009
Reflecting on Paul Krugman’s column today urging Obama to take on the Banks, Michael Tomasky’s assessment yesterday of Obama’s chances of leading in Copenhagen being poor because of his domestic troubles (and the increasing linkage of domestic and foreign policy) and Ross Douthat’s mischievous contrarian argument today that Geirge W Bush was, if not a [...]
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