1. To Entice Tehran, Washington Must \'Get Real\'
(Newsletter)

... shines in his antipathy towards Afghan intelligentsia and another in his indissoluble bond with the Afghan warlords.  His election campaign exposes this rancor more explicitly nowadays when he i...

2. Bye American
(Newsletter)

...e Financed Holocaust in Africa,” and they wanted my cooperation to provide more detailed evidence about the warlords behind the massacres at Bogoro, Congo, described briefly in my story. CONTINUE......

3. The White Rose & Sophie Scholl Story
(Newsletter)

...e hell out of Okinawa---and, for that matter, to take its Tokyo good buddies with it.  Before Japanese warlords annexed the Ryuku islands in 1879, Okinawans enjoyed more freedom than they do toda...

4. Do Elections Guarantee Freedom?
(Newsletter)

...ess of the ignorance of the populace or the duplicity of the government. CONTINUE... Charlie Wilson’s Warlords Book Review By MWC NEWS    Tuesday, 19 February 2008 Both the book an...

5. Poverty and graft 'fuel Afghan war'
(News/Global)

...untry is fractured and state institutions are fragile and weak." Many of those surveyed said that some warlords holding positions of power had spread insecurity and fuelled a lack of confidence i...

6. Why Most Counterinsurgency Wars Fail
(Opinions/op-ed)

... United States, as part of its global "war on terror," began funding unpopular and corrupt Somali warlords to promote "stability"—turning the local population toward the movement a...

7. Kabul rejects 'foreign criticism'
(News/Global)

... to welcome regional commanders into the administration. "We can't afford any longer a situation where warlords and power brokers play their own games," Eide said. "We have to have a po...

8. Brown warns Karzai on corruption
(News/Global)

...o reform the election commission. Warning Karzai on government appointments, Brown said: "Cronies and warlords should have no place in the future of a democratic Afghanistan." Brown's remar...

9. Afghanistan—Winning Lessons from Vietnam
(Opinions/op-ed)

...leadership of Afghanistan needs the skills to bridge factions and the toughness to face down or outmaneuver warlords who will not cooperate. There must be serious efforts to cripple the opium trade an...

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

...e(Sept. 28), “What the Afghans expected of us was to help create a decent government. Instead, we gave them warlords, because we were focused on counterterrorism.” The reporter, George Packer, noted t...