Andrew C. Kuchins, Thomas M. Sanderson, and David A. Gordon (CSIS): Afghanistan: Building the Missing Link in the Modern Silk Road. From the Journal of Democracy, Zalmay Khalilzad (CSIS): Lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq. Whose hands, whose blood? Tom Engelhardt on killing civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. Bury the Graveyard: If you want to figure out a way forward for Afghanistan, fake history is not the place to start. The war is at a critical juncture — can Afghanistan be saved? When nation-building becomes cowardly escape: Americans should be outraged that shoddy infrastructure and broken promises will be our legacy in Iraq. A review of My Life with the Taliban by Abdul Salam Zaeef. What if the United States had stayed focused on Afghanistan after 2001, had rebuilt it as it said it would, had ignored Iraq? This is war: How USAID workers are trained for work and danger in Afghanistan. Anyone who thinks the United States is really going to withdraw from Afghanistan in July 2011 needs to come to the giant air base in Bagram an hour away from Kabul. The New Lost Generation: Suicide rates for troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are out of control, and post-traumatic stress disorder is reaching epidemic proportions. From Time, a cover story on the plight of Afghan women: A disturbing picture. Chris Bray reviews on Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country by Benjamin Tupper and Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War by Megan K. Stack (and more). Raised from the ruins: After looting in Iraq damaged invaluable antiquities, archaeologists work to restore the cradle of civilization’s cultural heritage. When it comes to communicating with local populations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Army often puts away the blinking and beeping devices and uses a war tactic hundreds of years old: distributing leaflets.
