posted by John Nichols Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, who began openly and aggressively angling for a war with Iraq just weeks after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and who has been the most ardent advocate menu_book

Stealing Money, Selling Heroin and Raping Boys -- The Very Dark Side of the Afghan Occupation One reason Afghan villagers prefer dealing with the Taliban than govt. security forces is that the latter have a habit of seizing their sons at check menu_book

Frustration with the terrible conditions in Afghanistan has led to a proposal announced by Ariana Afghanistan TV to constitute a caravan of peace. This article takes a look at the proposal and discusses whether it is viable or useful. The menu_book

September 18, 2005 is set for parliamentary elections in Afghanistan. Long awaited democratic process preparation conclusion is in sight. With the culmination of this last step in democratic exercise, Afghanistan will officially join a community of n menu_book

The Idea of Caliphate in Islam: Earlier in time around the seventh century, the Islamic world had taken the lead in sciences, philosophy, politics, government and propagation of institutions of education and learning in the world. Europe li menu_book

Afghanistan guarded the northwestern gates of the Indian subcontinent for more than two centuries of the British occupation of India. Yet when the British left and India attained its independence in 1947, Afghanistan was left with a defunct document menu_book

Many followed with interest the latest trip of the Afghan President Karzai to Washington, who had openly expressed anger over the report of torture of Afghan citizens at the hands of the US military at the US military base in Bagram, Afghanistan as w menu_book

When the Untied States was reportedly on a track leading to winning over the hearts and minds of the Muslims, the Newsweek report, still uncorroborated by other sources, shattered the notion. Yet it should serve as a wake-up call to the need for pu menu_book

Politicking is an amusing game. More recently President Karzai has started to learn and experiment some of its intricacies it in his country. Some observers are of the opinion that he is learning the game from his well-placed confidants at home and a menu_book

Perhaps one man, Zalmay Khalilzad, stands out in Afghanistan's recent history as a man who wielded real power and used it unabashedly to influence Afghan affairs in the field. Khalilzad was there when the haphazard Bonn meeting participated by a hand menu_book

Regional politics in south-central Asia make a complicated maze for any politician and especially for Afghanistan's newly emerging democracy's leaders. One of the biggest functions of Afghanistan's president who bears the banner of Afghan politics mo menu_book

With Karzai's position secured as the president and his cabinet selected, the nation looks forward to action. Karzai had promised action on the basis of recognized priorities. But the first priority he chose was a jihad against opium. The Afghan n menu_book

In matters of history, nations behave as individuals. Nations have collective memories. Nations have collective feelings and emotions. Nations have collective pride, collective aspirations and collective dignity. Nations prosper during peace and suff menu_book

Power seems to be addictive. Power also seems to drive the powerful crazy. Power has been shown to blind the powerful to see the reality, has turned them deaf to hearing the plight of their nations, has stunned their senses and sensibilities to feel menu_book

The Afghan nation welcomed the decision to democratize Afghanistan in the face of the harsh medieval rule of the Taleban very early in the threshold of the 21st Century. Events at that time augmented the hopes of the optimists that a full fledged dem menu_book

Afghan politics are getting more complicated by the day. Governance in Afghanistan is in a crisis. Afghan politicians are confused, afraid and perplexed for a variety of reasons, some selfish others otherwise. The new American administration is yet t menu_book

A Change of Emphasis in the US policy: (To end one war and win the other.) The Obama administration has from the outset expressed a serious interest in finding ways to end the war in Iraq and to win the war in Afghanistan. Recently the administra menu_book

Political games are continuously played in our dog-eat-dog world. It is as if the" sin-city" is the world and the casinos, the countries in it. Open 24/7, they give the players, the politicians, several chances to lose. Political players however are menu_book