Afghanistan

Last night, I was interviewed on the Nicole Sandler Show on Air America to talk about the success of our Facebook vigil at the White House. Nicole participated in the vigil, and expressed her [...]

We put the writing on the wall. For three solid days, opposition to the war in Afghanistan dominated the White House’s Facebook wall. At one point yesterday, public posting on the White [...]

On October 7, 2001, America went to war with Afghanistan in response to the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. Operation Enduring Freedom began with air strikes centered on the capital of [...]

Today’s the day. We need to make a big impression with our White House Facebook vigil, and we need your help to do it. Please click here to join the vigil and pass it on. After more than [...]

This week marks 8 years in Afghanistan, and President Obama is thinking of doubling down on war. Republicans are bombarding him with pressure to send as many as 45,000 troops. Is the President [...]

On our first full day out into Kabul, I saw an old woman being dragged across the street by two men.  One of our delegates said she thought she saw the men kick the clearly resisting woman. This [...]

October 7th marks the eighth anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan. While the whole nation reels from the terrible cost of the war in lives, livelihoods, and dollars, President Obama is [...]

Rory Stewart of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard has been an interesting person to watch on the Afghanistan policy debate. A former British soldier, Stewart walked 6,000 miles across [...]

Since the leaking of the McCrystal memo and the President’s professed skepticism of certain aspects of Afghanistan policy, the public has witnessed a media blitz from both sides of the [...]

Why am I in Afghanistan? When many people were concerned about the Bush administration bombing another country unjustly, namely Iran, I decided I needed to go to the country to find out about [...]