Obama announces a partial withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
Why We Can’t Leave Afghanistan
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Osama bin Laden, the reason the Bush Administration went to war against Afghanistan in 2001, is dead. So why can’t we leave?
Coming 2014
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The U.S. announced victory in the war against Afghanistan at the end of 2001. Since then, the deadline has repeatedly been pushed back. Now Obama is moving back the end date from 2011 to 2014.
X-Treme Democratization
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Karzai is stubborn, but even he can made to see reason in accepting a run-off election against Abdullah Abdullah Boutros Boutros Ghali.
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
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It’s true: U.S. puppet Afghan president Hamid Karzai has signed into law a bill that requires Afghan women to have sex with their husbands at least every four days, except when they’re menstruating or sick. The Taliban were progressive by comparison–they stoned rapists to death.
