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How Afghan Opium Poppy Farming Has Grown and Grown and Grown…

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The US has spent $1.5m (£1.15m) a day since 2001 fighting the opium war in Afghanistan. It’s November 2017. The night vision camera shows a network of streets in a town in Helmand province, the poppy-growing centre of Afghanistan. The camera wheels around the targets before the missiles come arcing in. There are nine strikes […]

PENTAGON SENDING ‘DEFENSIVE’ TROOPS AND MISSILES TO SAUDI ARABIA…

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The Pentagon is sending additional troops and missiles to Saudi Arabia in response to Iran’s attack on Saudi oil facilities last weekend. “The president has approved the deployment of U.S. forces, which are primarily defensive in nature and primarily focused on air and missile defense,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in a surprise briefing Friday […]

OPINION: Where We Are Now in Afghanistan by Pat Lang…

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A year or so after the US intervention in Afghanistan began in 2001 I perceived that there was a danger that US public and government opinion might begin to favor the idea of “nation building” in Afghanistan. From long experience in and study of the area of Islamicate civilization and its history it seemed clear […]

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