I wonder how many coalition soldiers who have killed enemy medics or Afghan civilians will be facing war crimes charges, being charged with murder? WaPo: The first war crimes trial of the Obama administration, which began Thursday with brief opening arguments, will force a panel of seven military jurors, four male and three female officers, […]

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The Wall Street Journal: White House aides said they didn’t try to talk the Times out of publishing the reports because they knew WikiLeaks would publish the information regardless. So your thinking is that if WikiLeaks wasn’t going “to publish the information regardless” you would have tried? How about not trying to talk the Times […]

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The War Logs: An archive of classified military documents offers an unvarnished view of the war in Afghanistan Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington […]

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Fuckin’ great.  Not only are we spending an absolutely absurd $700 billion dollars a year for our own military,1 we’re now spending $650 million to fully arm the fledgling Afghan air corps.  And we don’t even have the decency to provide them with American arms built in American factories by American workers, but with Russian […]

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Dexter Filkins via The New York Times: But the episode, and others like it, has raised the suspicions of investigators here and in Washington, who are trying to track the tens of millions in taxpayer dollars paid to private security companies to move supplies to American and other NATO bases. Although the investigation is not […]

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Carlotta Gall via The New York Times: Farmers from the district of Marja, which since February has been the focus of the largest American-led military operation in Afghanistan, are fleeing the area, saying that the Taliban are terrorizing the population and that American troops cannot protect the civilians.The departure of the farmers is one of […]

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