Wednesday-Night

November 1, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
By ROGER COHEN
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan is not Iraq. That’s the good news. Decades of war are devastating, but not as crippling as decades of Saddam Hussein’s totalitarian hell. The glint of initiative outweighs fear’s residue in Afghan eyes.
Across this dirt-poor country — think sub-Saharan […]

Photo by Robert Galbraith
By Robert J. Galbraith, exclusive to The Suburban
Kabul, Afghanistan — This photo essay documents a two-hour patrol by Britain’s Coldstream Guards, in the eastern outskirts of Kabul on Oct. 25.
The patrol of three heavily-armoured and armed Snatch Land Rovers and 15 guardsmen left British Camp Souter to an area known […]

24 October 2007
Lately, we have spent a lot of time agonizing over the political scene in this country. So much so, that it appears to us we have been neglecting many international news items and issues, so this Wednesday, appropriately United Nations Day , we propose to look at some of (it is hardly […]

By Robert J. Galbraith, exclusive to The Suburban
Kabul, Afghanistan - Mohmad Noman, a 34-year-old member of the Afghan Border Police (ABP), leads his drug-sniffing dog Eirofi around the exterior of a tanker-trailer truck in a courtyard of the Border Police Headquarters in Kabul. Using a series of hisses while motioning with his hand, […]

October 23, 2007
By George Friedman
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerrillas based in northern Iraq ambushed Turkish troops near the border Oct. 21, killing 12 soldiers and suffering 23 casualties in the ensuing firefight, according to the Turkish government. For its part, the PKK said it captured eight Turkish troops, though Ankara has not confirmed the […]

October 17, 2007
The Suburban
Kabul, Afghanistan - Six years after the Taliban’s horrendous bombing of the fabulous Buddha complex at Bamiyan, Afghanistan’s greatest national treasure and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, efforts are being made by the Canadian government to save another great piece of Afghan heritage from death by neglect.
Last week it was announced that […]

October 17, 2007
Hello from Rob in Kabul
Salaam a la Comb! Everything going fairly well in Kabul. Nothing works like clock work in Afghanistan. There is a lot of e-mailing and waiting for the ok to go here or there, or the chance to cover this or that. We tried to get […]

3 October 2007
We will continue our high-tech education this week in the company of Guy Stanley OWN, newly-appointed Director of the Technology and Innovation unit of the Canada Conference Board. Last week’s introduction to the work of the NRC through the eyes of new Council member, Margaret Lefebvre OWN, was not only enlightening, but […]

The Laurel Comment
“…this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.” Winston Churchill
31 July 2007
Commentary
A little over 7½ years ago (6½ if you count your millennia properly) the United States entered the 21st century as the most powerful […]

12 July
Georgia, Washington and Moscow: a Nuclear Geopolitical Poker Game
(GlobalResearch.ca)Moscow has stepped up ties with the two small republics against the backdrop of Georgia’s NATO bid and Western recognition of Kosovo’s independence from Serbia. Russia, however, has not formally recognized Abkhazia or South Ossetia.
Moscow has long backed Abkhazia’s de facto independence however. It has granted […]