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Tagged: Afghanistan
Karzai a “wild card” for U.S. policy
November 3, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Afghan President Karzai’s re-election by default leaves the U.S. in the pre-election dilemma of having to deal with an Afghan government that the people there don’t trust. Journalism Professor Nick Mills, author of “Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan,” says Karzai has consistently failed to make the tough decisions that would [...]
Karzai’s brother on CIA payroll
October 28, 2009 at 5:03 pm
In an diplomatic bombshell, the New York Times reports that Afghan President Karzai’s brother – long a suspect in that nation’s opium trade – is on the CIA’s payroll and has been for years. Journalism Professor Nick Mills, who came to know the future president in the ’80s when Mills ran BU’s Afghan Media Project, [...]
Karzai’s re-election bid
August 17, 2009 at 10:30 am
Afghan President Hamid Kazai’s re-election bid will be decided this week. Polls are predicting a win, but not necessarily with an outright majority to avoid a run-off election with former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah. Journalism Professor Nick Mills, author of “Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan,” can comment. He’s know Karzai [...]
IR Prof. Andrew Bacevich: “Is Afghanistan worth it?”
July 20, 2009 at 10:38 am
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Afghan revamp
May 8, 2009 at 11:57 am
As reported in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. will appoint a three-star general to Kabul, marking the first time since the seven-year war began that the U.S. will have two senior commanders in Afghanistan. Former head of the American Embassy in Kabul, Charles Dunbar, now a professor of international relations, is available for comment on the [...]
International Relations professor William Keylor on Obama’s 100 days in Iraq
April 27, 2009 at 9:39 pm
PTSD and women in combat
October 20, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Of the 190,000 military women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, 20 percent of them will likely develop post-traumatic stress disorder, (PTSD) a debilitating, life-threatening anxiety disorder. With women returning from combat deployments in greater numbers than ever before in U.S. history, the Department of Veteran Affairs is scrambling to meet a [...]
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