Reality Check: AFGHANISTAN – THE BIG FAIL James Campion August 25, 2021 Columns, Reality Check Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan. Italian proverb Man, I have written a whole lot about Afghanistan over two decades. Not as much as Iraq, but a lot. It has been a long, strange trip, over thr... Read More...
The Freak Show: Either Fight To Win, Or Get Out! Hal B. Selzer November 24, 2010 Columns A documentary has just come out called Restrepo. The film recorded the experiences of a regiment in Afghanistan over the past two years. The 173rd Airborne Brigade was deployed in the remote Korengal Valley. It... Read More...
G.I. Joke: U.S. Military’s Revolving Generals & Endless Campaigns of Chaos James Campion June 25, 2010 Columns 2 New commander-in-chief, same old crap; the United States Armed Forces is in chaos. Already recovering from decades of abysmal derailments and disasters in Korea and Viet Nam to ill-fated underground black-op... Read More...
Karzai, Musharraf, Netanyahu: With Friends Like These… James Campion April 9, 2010 Columns 3 Rumors of Afghani President Hamid Karzai’s drug use in the wake of his inflammatory anti-American comments are highly suspect. While it is true that Karzai has an insatiable appetite for chewing pure hashish br... Read More...
Obama’s Safety Net Is… War? Patrick Slevin March 30, 2010 Columns 1 Less than a week after signing into law one of the most contentious pieces of legislation in American history—government mandated insurance for all Americans—President Barack Obama quickly ran to political safe... Read More...
Deleted Scenes: Has No One In The Obama White House Seen Rambo III? Patrick Slevin October 20, 2009 Columns You don’t need a degree in Middle East history to know that Afghanistan has been one of the most fecund sites in the world for war for thousands of years. Alexander The Great, Genghis Khan and the British Empir... Read More...
Reality Check: Afghanistan, The Original Quagmire James Campion October 2, 2009 Columns 3 The United States must leave Afghanistan now. Not in eleven months or after careful discussion and continued study to determine an undisclosed time, but now. Soon after, it must leave Iraq. These and o... Read More...
