1. Fraudulent Afghan Election Raises Odds Against U.S. 'Success'
(Opinions/op-ed)

...a decent government. Instead, we gave them warlords, because we were focused on counterterrorism.” The reporter, George Packer, noted that in areas the Taliban took over, they “collected taxes and eve...

2. How Iraq Invasion Boosted Burma's Junta
(Opinions/op-ed)

...ntries whose governments show no regard for human life is now seen as reflecting Western arrogance," writes George Packer in The New Yorker magazine. Packer refers specifically to Burma but milit...

3. How (Not) to Withdraw from Iraq
(Opinions/op-ed)

...ussion, while talking about those who had written on Iraq for his magazine: "There's Jon Lee Anderson and George Packer and Sy Hersh and Rick [Hertzberg], they all look at it from different ang...