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Afghanistan

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Afghanistan: Don’t Look Away, Act!

November 27, 2021 Cole Harrison

Saturday, November 27th, 11 am-noon ** Northampton: in front of the courthouse ** Greenfield: weekly vigil on Town Common  Three months ago, 10 members of the Ahmadi family were killed by a U.S. drone in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Pentagon called it a “horrible mistake”. Join our […]

Afghanistan: America's Second Vietnam

Afghanistan: America’s Second Vietnam

October 13, 2021 Cole Harrison

Forty Years in the Making and beyond Roundtable The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond, the new book by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould – how America lured the Soviet Union into Afghanistan in 1979 to demonize her and justify an enormous military buildup under Reagan. […]

Afghanistan war costs

The Eight Trillion Dollar War

October 5, 2021 Cole Harrison

With Dr. Heidi Peltier Tuesday October 5 @ 7pm At the beginning of September, The Cost of War Project at Brown University released its report showing that the costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the other post-9/11 wars was a staggering $8 […]

Middle East Wars

Forty-Two Years in Afghanistan: Can a New US Foreign Policy avoid Hyper-Masculinist Ego?

September 27, 2021 Pat Hynes

by H. Patricia Hynes  Originally posted by Informed Comment on September 16th, 2021. The Deadly Sins of the US War in Afghanistan Today, that Congress together with the Executive Branch, the Pentagon, and military contractors should return to the National Cathedral to confess their deadly […]

Lessons of Afghanistan Part 2

Learning the Lessons of Afghanistan – Part 2

September 2, 2021 Cole Harrison

What lessons should the United States learn from its debacle in Afghanistan? Cole Harrison suggested 7 areas in an August 18 article. In the second of two sessions, we present three speakers who will give their response to these themes and their suggested lessons.  The […]

President Reagan meeting with Afghan Mujahedeen in the Oval Office, Feb 2, 1983. Reagan Library/ Michael Evans photo
Middle East Wars

Afghanistan: Farewell to Arms, Predator Drones, Night Raids…?

August 31, 2021 George Capaccio

by George Capaccio It is right that the Western troops are finally leaving our country — they should have done so much earlier. We cannot have a serious peace process as long as the Americans are in Afghanistan. We must build our country with our […]

Lessons of Afghanistan Part 1

Learning the Lessons of Afghanistan – Part 1

August 30, 2021 Cole Harrison

What lessons should the United States learn from its debacle in Afghanistan? Cole Harrison suggested seven of them in an August 18 article. In the first of two sessions, we present three speakers who will give their response to these themes and their suggested lessons.  […]

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