All posts tagged Afghanistan

NATO & Afghanistan
May 23, 2008, Comments Off on NATO & Afghanistan

May 23, 2008 America needs to lean much harder on Afghanistan’s President Karzai IN CONVENTIONAL wisdom it is the ...

Wednesday Night #1365
April 30, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1365

Photos and more News and Events The Metropolitain went to press as Wednesday Night was assembling. Distribution of the f ...

Pakistan post 2008 elections
April 30, 2008, Comments Off on Pakistan post 2008 elections

For previous news and opinion see Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and the aftermath and Pakistan post 2008 el ...

Wednesday Night #1364
April 23, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1364

Before doing our usual tour d’horizon of news and events around the globe, we would like to call to your attention ...

Wednesday Night #1363
April 16, 2008, 1 Comment

First, we would draw your attention to last Wednesday’s discussion of China, Tibet & the Olympics – a nu ...

Wednesday Night #1361
April 2, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1361

Wednesday Night Goes Global – or at least partially! On Wednesday April 2, a select group of Wednesday Nighters wi ...

Iraq 5 years later
March 24, 2008, Comments Off on Iraq 5 years later

The $3 Trillion War, Josephy Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes (Vanity Fair, April 2008) After wildly lowballing the cost of the ...

Wednesday Night #1353
February 6, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1353

If there’s anything going on in the world besides Super Tuesday, it’s hard to discern it in the media, wheth ...

Manley recommends extending Afghan mission
January 26, 2008, 1 Comment

January 25, 2008 Afghanistan needs us Without the presence of international troops, chaos would erupt JOHN MANLEY Saturd ...

Wednesday Night #1351
January 23, 2008, 1 Comment

23 January 2008 We are delighted that at the suggestion of Consul General Mary Marshall, U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins w ...