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05 March 2009
The mainstream media has finally fully caught up to where we were in 2006. It is now commonly recognized that we have massive problems with AfPak, and that Pakistan is the real problem.
The Afghanistan Problem: Can Obama Avoid a Quagmire?
Unfortunately, the 2009 reporting is at least three years too late:
“Curious Circumstance” published on April 12, 2006
“Kabul to Lashkargar” published on April 14, 2006
“Whipping Boy” published on April 21, 2006
“Dasht-e-Margo” published on April 25, 2006
“A Virgin Market” published on May 2, 2006
“Camp Bastion” published on May 4, 2006
“The Long Road Ahead” published on May 12, 2006
“Hiatus Corpus” published on May 22, 2006
“There Be Dragons” published oh July 6, 2006
“The Perfect Evil, Part I of III” published on September 25, 2006
“The Perfect Evil Part II of III” published on October 9, 2006
“The Perfect Evil Part III” published November 9, 2006
The War in Afghanistan has truly begun. This will be a long, difficult fight that is set to eclipse anything we’ve seen in Iraq. As 2010 unfolds, my 6th year of war coverage will unfold with it. There is relatively little interest in Afghanistan by comparison to previous interest in Iraq, and so reader interest is low. Afghanistan is serious, very deadly business. Like Iraq, however, it gets pushed around as a political brawling pit while the people fighting the war are mostly forgotten. The arguments at home seem more likely to revolve around a few words from the President than the ground realities of combat here. I can bring the ground realities, but can sustain the coverage only by the graciousness of readers. Please keep that in mind. Please click…
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