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Reason
March 2005
Charles Paul Freund |
Artifact: Idol Hour Here is a pair of idols apparently acting out a forgotten pagan tale of Central Asia. Part of a collection housed in the Kabul Museum, the wooden statues were badly damaged in 2001 on the orders of the Taliban regime.   |
Reason
February 2002
Charles Paul Freund |
Aesthetic Karma Should the Buddhas destroyed last spring by the Taliban be rebuilt? |
Salon.com
September 19, 2001
Laura Miller |
The "enemy" we barely know A writer who has traveled extensively in Afghanistan talks about how little we understand its people, how dangerous it is to underestimate them and why they have cause to resent the U.S.... |
Salon.com
September 27, 2001
Steve Kettmann |
Creating "many, many Osamas" Novelist William Vollmann says if the U.S. convinces Afghans of bin Laden's guilt, they'll support the move against him. If not, only "genocide" will defeat them... |
Salon.com
September 24, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Terror's first victims When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer... |
Salon.com
December 17, 2001
Tamim Ansary |
Leaping to conclusions Well-meaning observers are making dangerous assumptions about Afghan women and their goals for the future... |
Salon.com
September 22, 2001
Sean Kenny |
Anger in the bazaars of Peshawar The Taliban has strong support in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. If there is civil war, it will start here... |
Salon.com
October 19, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Optional burqas and mandatory malnutrition After spending 18 months studying Afghanistan, Dr. Lynn Amowitz reports that life under the Taliban is more brutal -- and more complicated -- than we suspected... |
Salon.com
November 16, 2001
Janelle Brown |
"Beneath the Veil" redux Documentary filmmaker Saira Shah returns to Afghanistan to find hopeful soldiers and starving children. Her film of the journey is called "Unholy War"... |
Salon.com
September 11, 2001
Janelle Brown |
"Purge our society," online bigots shout Post-disaster threats and expressions of racism bubble up on the Web... |
Parameters
Spring 2004
Sean M. Maloney |
Afghanistan: From Here to Eternity? American policy in Afghanistan is at a crossroads, or so it appears. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suggested in May 2003 that the war on terror in Afghanistan was in "cleanup" or "mop up" phase. |
Salon.com
October 2, 2001
Janelle Brown |
The Taliban's bravest opponents An underground resistance of Afghan women risks torture and execution to alert the world to the regime's atrocities. One freedom fighter tells her story... |
Outside
December 2003
Patrick Symmes |
The Kabul Express In the sixties and seventies it was the hippie trail that brought foreigners to Afghanistan. Two decades of war and terror later, Kabul is a nonstop rave of C-130s, NGOs, soldiers, and spooky nation-builders. The freaks are back on Chicken Street -- where everything old is new again. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Manjeet Kripalani |
Operation: Stability in Afghanistan The country is making steady progress, but it's facing huge challenges in getting ready for free elections next June. |
National Defense
February 2014
Stephen A. Mackey |
Time to Make Key Decisions in Afghanistan As the United States enters its second decade in Afghanistan, it is wise to examine the nation's interests and use them to inform the path ahead. Nations do not have permanent friends and allies, only permanent interests. |
Parameters
Autumn 2006
Raymond L. Bingham |
Bridging the Religious Divide Academicians, east and west, hotly debate the fundaments of the war on terror. In our nation's capital, decision-makers and renowned scholars meet regularly to posit the pros and cons of U.S. foreign policy. |
Salon.com
December 13, 2001
Janelle Brown |
An Afghan aristocrat fights for equality Leila Enayat-Seraj rolls up her couture sleeves to rescue Afghan art and restore civil rights for women... |
Salon.com
December 3, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Any day now Afghan women hope to use the momentum of international recognition to secure civil rights and a role in government... |
ifeminists
July 10, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
Arm the Afghan women Give an Afghan woman the right to own a gun and you protect her long after the current tragedy has become old news. A gun in the hand of a mother who is protecting her child may be the most humanitarian relief of all. |
Salon.com
October 10, 2001
Asra Q. Nomani |
At home with the Taliban While U.S. bombs dropped on his country, an Afghan official and his two wives welcomed me into their living room and talked of marriage, music and his memories of dining in the World Trade Center's starry restaurant... |
Salon.com
September 25, 2001
Anthony York |
Salon's war reader Don't know much about Central Asian history? Osama bin Laden? The Web provides a crash course in what's needed to understand "America's new war"... |
Outside
January 2010
Grayson Schaffer |
Books: Eric Blehm Eric Blehm's third book, The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan details the U.S. Army's campaign to take the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. |
Sports Illustrated
October 2, 2001
Frank Deford |
State of Turmoil Afghanistan has had an oddly central position in sports history... |
Geotimes
October 2003
John F. Shroder Jr. |
Reconstructing Afghanistan: Nation Building or Nation Failure? As the Coalition forces begin reconstructing Iraq, Afghanistan continues to undergo its own rebuilding process. Whether the country continues to fail or rises to succeed may depend on U.S. efforts to help develop Afghanistan's vast natural resources. |
Reason
April 2001
Charles Paul Freund |
Artifact: Shear Anxiety Haircut cops in Kabul rounded up a few dozen of the city's barbers in January, charging them with turning men into Leonardo DiCaprio wannabes. That's a serious matter in Afghanistan, because its extremist religious rulers, the Taliban, regard most foreign haircuts as "anti-Islamic"... |
Salon.com
December 5, 2001
Janelle Brown |
A chance to shine Afghan women delegates in Brussels prepare for a role in government, and react variously to a French belly dancer in a spangled bra... |
Parameters
Spring 2006
Ali A. Jalali |
The Future of Afghanistan Afghanistan is again at a crossroads. One road leads to peace and prosperity; the other leads to the loss of all that has been achieved. Everything depends on the level of international commitment to help Afghanistan emerge from the dark shadows of its recent past. |
Reason
November 2002
Charles Paul Freund |
Great Stone Face Just as the Taliban were detonating Afghanistan's ancient Buddhas, spreading worldwide dismay, plans were hatched to carve a 250-foot face of Alexander the Great on a granite outcropping in Greece, spreading considerable alarm. |
