Tag: Afghanistan

In August 2011, investigators got a memo recommending canceling the towers, but the they were built anyway. (iStock)

National Security

State Department spent millions on six towers nobody wants in Afghanistan

Mark Tapscott · September 18, 2014 11:00 am

There's a widespread assumption that most Americans prefer multilateral action-- acting with other nations as partners. But maybe that's not so.Â (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Make mine multilateral? Not necessarily

Michael Barone · September 17, 2014 5:01 pm

Afghanistan: ‘Broke and Needs a $537 Million Bailout’

Afghanistan: ‘Broke and Needs a $537 Million Bailout’

Geoffrey Norman · September 17, 2014 11:23 am

NATO and Afghan security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked a foreign motorcade just a couple hundred yards (meters) from the U.S. Embassy, unleashing a blast that injured at least 13 people and rattled nearby neighborhoods, police officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan suicide bomber kills 3 foreign troops

Jason Straziuso · September 16, 2014 2:58 pm

Afghanistan: The War Continues

Afghanistan: The War Continues

Geoffrey Norman · September 16, 2014 11:46 am

Democracy? No, Afghans say, after vote count ends

Jason Straziuso · September 15, 2014 4:10 pm

A soldier looks through the scope of his rifle as he guards a engineer road construction project near the Mas'um Ghar base in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan in this Wednesday Nov. 22, 2006 photo. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

National Security

With Obama going to war, Dems are suddenly hawks

Susan Ferrechio · September 15, 2014 9:00 am

‘The Blood-Dimmed Tide’

William Kristol · September 15, 2014 4:00 am

"The bottom line is that it appears we've created a government that the Afghans simply cannot afford," saidÃÂ John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Corruption still huge in Afghanistan: SIGAR

Mark Tapscott · September 14, 2014 6:00 pm

Former top general in Afghanistan to head coalition against Islamic State

Former top general in Afghanistan to head coalition against Islamic State

Jennifer Peebles · September 14, 2014 3:58 pm

Farmers slice open the green poppy bulbs, full raw opium, the main ingredient in heroin, on a poppy field in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

Afghans headed to ‘narco-criminal state’

Mark Tapscott · September 13, 2014 11:31 am

Thirteen years later, America has lost ground

Thirteen years later, America has lost ground

Washington Examiner · September 11, 2014 9:03 am