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...J. Matthew Hoye Abstract On August 15, 2021, American military forces withdrew from Kabul, and the sanctioning of Afghanistan began. Marred by the usual problems—ineffective, counterproductive, unwieldy—these sanctions revealed three additional puzzles. First, although grounded in targeted...

..., March 2008 COMMENTARY Afghanistan: The Use and Abuse of a Buffer Statel Christian Parenti I I will begin with a story that I hope casts some light on why and how the US occupation of Afghanistan is failing. I was with my friend and interpreter Ajmal Nakshbandi. We were on the Shomali Plain just north...

...Douglas Kellner Abstract Bush administration foreign policy has exhibited a marked unilateralism and militarism in which US military power is used to advance US interests and geopolitical hegemony. The policy was first evident in the Afghanistan intervention following the September 11, 2001 terror...

... of killing, and celebrations of social chaos. We argue that these trends, reflected in the ongoing interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, have dramatically influenced the national psyche. Here we devote special attention to two recent films that embellish strong patriotic and pro-military themes while...

... attacks of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were instances of blowback from American clandestine operations in Afghanistan. They have greatly accelerated tendencies toward militarism in the United States, which is defined as the phenomenon in which a nation’s armed services...

... of the development of a transnational ideology, a kind of ideological globalization, whose core is the doctrine of limited sovereignty. It is argued, with particular reference to the Yugoslavian case, that the three “wars” launched by the transnational elite so far (Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan) have been aimed...

... administration have strong historical precedents: extended case studies of pretexts are presented for the events surrounding the Korea crisis of 1950 and the Afghanistan crisis of 1979–1980, as well as the more recent War on Terrorism. {/IINew Political Science, Volume 26, Number 3, September 2004 Carfax...

... and Retaliation There seem to be three discourses, competing for attention, to come to grips with September 11 (terrorism in New York/Washington, killing about 3000) and October 7, 2001 + (state terrorism in Afghanistan, killing about SOOO)} summa- rized in Table 1. The first is the terrorist discourse. Inspired...

... retreated, eventually backing off from a demand upon Israel to halt new settlements as a condition of peace talks, and, after a tortured review, has decided to commit additional troops to Afghanistan, which Peschek argues will thrust the United States into an extended military and political morass...

... the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. @378 P. DIXON blunting anti-war opposition.2 Even after the military interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, according to Bohm and Brown, a majority of cosmopolitans continued to advocate "humanitarian...

... investigation in history, evidence about the perpetrators of 9/11 has been elusive. Eight months after the bombing, FBI director Robert Mueller could only inform a Senate Committee that US intelligence now "believes" the plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though planned and implemented elsewhere.23 And well after...

..., the Sunday New York Times featured a story entitled"After the Taliban, Who? Don't Forget North Korea." The Bush administration has a unique window of opportunity to have its way with the world. Not one government outside Iraq (as far as I know) opposed the war in Afghanistan. While the German government...

...). The second major theme is that the gendered logic of masculinist protection was manifest in support of arguments to justify war against Afghanistan and later against Iraq. Young suggests that the new "security state" has two faces: one faces inward to keep those under its protection under its control...

.... A lot of that is from me to you but my office hours are always open and people are always writing me back. I have email lists from about 20 centers in North America, including parts of Canada where my wife is from. As we intensify all of these issues-Afghanistan, Pakistan, Wall Street, the future...

... on 9/11. We can be sure that the US strategy of carrying out a global war on terrorism with its anticipated emphasis on military solutions, including the sustained bombing of Afghanistan where poverty and starvation have reached crisis levels, not to mention a broadening of the "war," will only...

... of 9/11, the War on Terror, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the prospect of limitless, "preemptive" and permanent US war-making necessitate new, sophisticated theorizations and analyses of American militarism, the military-industrial complex, US foreign policy, imperialism and hegemony. Indeed...

... to close in response to adverse publicity, the Science Applications International Corporation was assigned to "design and conduct effective strategic influence and operational and tactical perceptionmanagement campaigns."6 US policies in Afghanistan, Iraq and its so-called 4 United States Department...

... to the attacks, laid the groundwork for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the practice of rendition (p. 25). More focused in its scope, the Military Order of November 13,2001 established indefinite detention of so-called "unlawful combatants" and justice in the military tribunal (pp. 28-30). Taken...

... against Iraq and was an important component of the Kosovo war that was planned, programmed, and orchestrated through computer networks, as well as the 2001 war against the al Qaeda network and Taliban in Afghanistan. While the Persian Gulf TV war was arguably the most spectacular military campaign...

..., "The Cost of War for Selected States and Cities," available online at: < httpwww.nationalpriorities.org >. Common Cause has taken up the fight to monitor government corruption in the handling of contracts for Iraq and Afghanistan. See "Eye on Iraq" at their website: < http:/ / www.commoncause.org...