Negative Space: Afghanistan
- The Blog of War
- Great collection of Iraq and Afghanistan-related milblog posts. The Blog of War covers every war from the perspective of the individuals who take part: friends, spouses, and the soldiers themselves.
- Drug war undermining Afghan, Iraqi peace
- Prohibition continues to fund terrorist organizations, and we continue to pour money into maintaining prohibition. Prohibition is, as it has always been, one of the best and easiest means for criminal organizations to grow.
- Rumsfeld worried about new terror in Afghanistan
- Rumsfeld worries publicly that Afghanistan’s terror quota will fail without renewed prohibition on opium poppies.
- Taliban revisionism, historical amnesia
- It might not be wrong to leave oppressive murderers in power in other countries. It is wrong to pretend that that isn’t what we’re doing. It is wrong to pretend that apathy in the face of oppression is a noble effort.