A woman walks past campaign posters of candidates in the Afghan parliamentary elections. The vote in 2010 was marred by accusations of widespread fraud. Photograph: Rahmat Gul/AP Leading Afghans cast doubt on election schedule Talk in Kabul that presidential vote due in 2014 could be delayed or brought forward by a year, threatening constitutional crisis [...]
General: Britain Won’t Leave Afghanistan in 2015 Vows ‘Long-Term Commitment’ After December 2014 by Jason Ditz, October 09, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In comments discussing the ten year anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, the top British commander in the nation Lieutenant General James Bucknall ruled out withdrawing from the nation at any [...]
Poll Shows Overwhelming British Opposition to Afghan War 71 Percent Believe War ‘Unwinnable’ by Jason Ditz, October 07, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum British Chief of Defence Staff General Sir David Richards today conceded that the military is losing the “battle of perceptions” about the decade-long Afghan War, as a new poll shows overwhelming [...]
Misunderstanding the Afghan War (After a Decade!) John Glaser, August 23, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Ahmad Majidyar blogs at the American Enterprise Institute about US-NATO negotiations with the Taliban, characterizing them as “goodwill gestures” and “appeasement.” The British Embassy in Kabul recently hosted an Iftar party on the occasion of [...]
