File 911: The Afghan Campaign

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Links shown below may have blown away, but, before giving up on them, be sure to check whether the articles can be located elsewhere via </b><A HREF="http://www.google.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.google.com/"><U><B>Google</b></U></A><B> or have been preserved in the amber of the </b><A HREF="http://www.archive.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.archive.org/"><U><B>Internet Wayback Machine</b></U></A><B>.</b></div> <div> Richard Kidd, <A HREF="http://www.starbanner.com/News/wotkidd1003.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.starbanner.com/News/wotkidd10"><U>"Know Your Enemy"</U></A> (10/3/01). One of the last American citizens to spend time in Afghanistan before the war writes about al-Qaeda's takeover via Talibin puppets and the Afghans' overrated reputation as unconquerable warriors.</div> <div> William R. Hawkins, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-hawkins110701.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/co"><U>"Time on Our Side"</U></A> (11/7/01). More reasons why Afghanistan isn't a "quagmire".</div> <div> <I>Daily Telegraph</I> Afghanistan situation map, <A HREF="http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2001/11/14/wkund14a.gif" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/g"><U>11/14/01</U></A>.</div> <div> <I>Daily Telegraph</I> Afghanistan situation map, <A HREF="http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2001/11/15/wsouth15a.gif" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/g"><U>11/15/01</U></A>.</div> <div> Thomas J. Bray, <A HREF="http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tbray/?id=95001519" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists"><U>"What Do Women Want?"</U></A> (11/27/01). Are we fighting to bring feminism to Afghanistan?</div> <div> <I>Daily Telegraph</I>, <A HREF="http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2001/11/29/whunt229big.jpeg" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/graph"><U>"Bin Laden's Mountain Tunnel Complex"</U></A> (11/29/01). Map and schematic of the fortified Tora Bora cave complex, believed to be Osama bin Laden's equivalent of Hitler's "Alpine Redoubt".</div> <div> Wendy McElroy, <A HREF="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,39978,00.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,3997"><U>"Call Me 'Anti-Woman'"</U></A> (12/3/01). Feminist extremists are too busy exploiting Afghan women to pay attention to their views.</div> <div> Jim Werbaneth, <A HREF="http://www.militarygameronline.com/lineofdeparture/postmortem.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.militarygameronline.com/lineo"><U>"Afghanistan Post-Mortem"</U></A> (1/1/02). A detailed summary of the military lessons of the war's opening campaign.</div> <div> <I>Wall Street Journal</I>, <A HREF="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001755" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/"><U>"The Human Rights Fraud"</U></A> (1/21/02). A left-eyed watchdog sees only gloom in the ouster of the Taliban.</div> <div> Laura King, <A HREF="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020211/ap_on_re_as/afghan_counting_the_dead_1" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st"><U>"Review: Afghan Civilian Deaths Lower"</U></A> (2/11/02). A debunking of claims that the Afghanistan campaign resulted in thousands of civilian deaths.</div> <div> Doug Struck, <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60255-2002Feb11.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art"><U>"Taliban's Enemies Emerge from the Shadows"</U></A> (2/12/02). Tales of Afghan underground resistance to the Taliban regime.</div> <div> Ann Marlowe, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-marlowe021802.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/co"><U>"'Warlords' and 'Leaders'"</U></A> (2/18/02). The challenge of telling the good guys from the bad in a turbulent country.</div> <div> Michael Fumento, <A HREF="http://www.fumento.com/mollymoore.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fumento.com/mollymoore.html"><U>"No Straight Shooters: The </U></A><A HREF="http://www.fumento.com/mollymoore.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fumento.com/mollymoore.html"><U><I>Washington Post</I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.fumento.com/mollymoore.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fumento.com/mollymoore.html"><U>'s Questionable Afghanistan Reporting"</U></A> (2/22/02). Grim stories about the impact of the war on civilians don't check out.</div> <div> James Taranto, <A HREF="http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=105001681" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=1"><U>"A Murder in Pakistan"</U></A> (2/22/02); Brian Cabell, <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/02/21/pearl.obit/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/so"><U>"Obituary: Daniel Pearl, 38, Reporter, Expectant Father"</U></A> (2/22/02); Dave Shiflett, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/shiflett/shiflett022202.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/shiflett/s"><U>"Brother Pearl"</U></A> (2/22/02); Mark Steyn, <A HREF="http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/story.html?f=/stories/20020225/157807.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/c"><U>"He Was an American, a Jew - a Trophy"</U></A> (2/25/02). Reflections of the murder of <I>Wall Street Journal</I> reporter Danny Pearl.</div> <div> Mackubin Thomas Owens, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-owens030402.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/co"><U>"It's Not Over Until It's Over"</U></A> (3/4/02). The problems involved in "cleaning up" in Afghanistan.</div> <div> Ralph Peters, <A HREF="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=105001725" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/"><U>"In War, Soldiers Die"</U></A> (3/5/02). The U.S. military has been doing an excellent job of getting over the malaise of the Clinton years.</div> <div> Jonathan Foreman, <A HREF="http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/43768.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedco"><U>"Al Qaeda's Safe Haven"</U></A> (3/18/02). Finishing the Afghan campaign requires cleaning out Pakistan's ungoverned frontier region.</div> <div> Shaheen Sehbai, <A HREF="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=105001811" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/"><U>"Peril in Pakistan"</U></A> (3/23/02). A prominent Pakistani journalist, forced into exile just weeks ago, warns against placing too much faith in the Musharraf regime.</div> <div> Mackubin Thomas Owens, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-owens032502.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/co"><U>"Body Counting"</U></A> (3/25/02). In a strange fit of Vietnam nostalgia, the media are unhappy that the U.S. hasn't shown much interest in quantifying casualties.</div> <div> Ted Galen Carpenter, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-carpenter040402.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/co"><U>"Head Straight for Pakistan"</U></A> (4/4/02). To finish off the Taliban, the U.S. military needs to deny it sanctuary across the border.</div> <div> Marin J. Strmecki, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/20may02/strmecki052002.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/20may02/st"><U>"Winning, Truly, in Afghanistan"</U></A> (5/9/02). The U.S. needs to move with care in picking its friends in Afghanistan. The enemy of my enemy may still be my enemy.</div> <div> David Zucchino, <A HREF="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-000039059jun03.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dworld%2Dmanual" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/"><U>“In the Taliban’s Eyes, Bad News Was Good”</U></A> (6/3/02). How Taliban propagandists manufactured reports of civilian casualties from U.S. bombing.</div> <div> Associated Press, <A HREF="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020609_895.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020"><U>“Top Taliban Sought U.S. Help in 1999"</U></A> (6/9/02). Interesting though unverified: "A senior Taliban official said he approached U.S. representatives three years ago for help in replacing the hard-line Islamic leadership but was told Washington was leery of becoming involved in internal Afghan politics."</div> <div> Peter Baker and Susan B. Glasser, <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15816-2002Jun8.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art"><U>“Miles to Go Before Kabul Can Be Left Behind”</U></A> (6/9/02). A good account of how much needs to be done in post-war Afghanistan, though naive and heavy-handed in its emphasis on Western cash as the magical cure-all.</div> <div> Philip Smucker, <A HREF="http://csmonitor.com/2002/0702/p01s02-wosc.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://csmonitor.com/2002/0702/p01s02-wo"><U>"Al Qaeda Thriving in Pakistani Kashmir"</U></A> (7/2/02). A first hand report on the complicity of renegade Pakistani officials in protecting terrorists.</div> <div> Rod Nordland, Sami Yousafzai and Babak Dehghanpisheh, <A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/791852.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.msnbc.com/news/791852.asp"><U>"How Al Qaeda Slipped Away"</U></A> (8/11/02). An account, plausible but based on vague sources, of the exodus of al-Qaeda troops from Afghanistan, including supposed eyewitness evidence that Osama bin Laden got out alive.</div> <div> Joshua Muravchik, <A HREF="http://theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/565otmps.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://theweeklystandard.com/Content/Pub"><U>"The Prof Who Can't Count Straight"</U></A> (8/17/02). A leftist professor keeps on peddling the Taliban's inflated Afghan casualty figures - or sometimes higher numbers - to gullible news media.</div> <div> Ralph Peters, <A HREF="http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110002934" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id="><U>"Hamlet of the Indus"</U></A> (1/19/03). "At present, Washington has no choice but to work--carefully--with Gen. Musharraf, a head of state who insists on a sovereignty he cannot enforce over territory that continues to harbor both international terrorists and Afghan renegades."</div> <div> [<A HREF="id26_instant_loc_form.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>To comment, click here.</U></A>]</div> <div> <A HREF="#_________home" TITLE="File 911: The Afghan Campaign"><U><B><Return to Top of Page></b></U></A></div> <div> <B>  <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">var site="sm8Stromata";var g_frames=true;</script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2" src="http://sm8.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=sm8Stromata"> </script> <noscript> <a href="http://sm8.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=sm8Stromata" target="_top"> <img src="http://sm8.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=sm8Stromata" alt="Site Meter" border=0></a> </noscript>    </b></div> </td> </tr></table></body>