How's that Swat 'cease-fire' going?
So how’s that Swat Valley cease-fire going, anyway? Not so well… “How can I tell you my name, are you crazy? I was told not to give my name to anyone because the Taliban could hurt me,” one girl in the ninth grade told AFP by telephone from the former ski resort. This meshes with what I was told […]
Where to get 600,000 troops?
Yesterday, Rep. John Murtha, D-Penn., chairman of the Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations, said the current plan for the U.S. in Afghanistan lacks a goal and that 600,000 troops are needed to get things under control. “That’s what I estimate it would take in a country that size to get it under control,” Murtha said in an interview. Now, […]