September 7, 2009

Afghanistan Matters

George Will has thrown down the gauntlet.  While a few conservatives have always been reluctant about our efforts in Afghanistan, Will’s September 1, column advocating withdrawal has opened a rift on the American right with conservatives ...

September 3, 2009

Surging Ahead in Afghanistan

Just over one year ago, on August 19, 2008 my friend was murdered.  Taliban gunmen assassinated Mohammed Ayoob on his doorstep, in a village along the Kunduz River, in the Kunduz Province of Northern Afghanistan.  Ayoob, only twenty years o...