The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has been in the news a lot this year. An increase in bombings, continued criticism from its best (or worst) friend America, and the disastrous floods that left over ten million people homeless are but a few issues that have gone unresolved. Though most of my previous posts this year [...]
A cross-post from my friend Alex Strick van Linschoten.
It’s easy to talk in the abstract about war. The dead become numbers, the displaced are statistics, and slowly we begin to forget about the people who live through it all. Afghanistan is a case in point. Tens of thousands of words of commentary are written every [...]
The most common response to my public about-face and decision to sign onto a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan is “how will you accomplish this?” It is a perfectly fair, reasonable question I hope Alex Strick van Linschoten and Gilles Dorronsoro, the two main drivers of the Call to Reason, answer some day soon.
I have my [...]