Tag Archives: taliban

On Pakistan

Just got finished reading an excellent essay by Bill Keller (who has transitioned nicely from NY times Executive Editor to a writer again) on the extremely complex US/Pakistani relationship. I’ve posted a few times about that relationship, and argued many times with Rindy–on the blog, by email, over drinks, we may have even text-argued about …

December 15, 2011 – 3:09 pm | By Rootless | Posted in Articles | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Top Taliban commander captured

Good news out of the Afpak region, the Taliban second in command, Mullah Baradar, was captured in Karachi.  This is notable in itself, and comes as the US is leading an ambitious effort to capture the Taliban stronghold of Marja, but I was particularly happy to hear that the raid was a joint effort by …

February 16, 2010 – 11:47 am | By Rootless | Posted in Articles | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Afghanistan

Thinking a lot this weekend about Afghanistan. I just finished Dexter Filkin’s excellent book, “The Forever War“, and read the piece Filkin’s also had in this weekend’s NY Times Magazine on General Stanley McChrystal, who is in charge of the war in Afghanistan. He is requesting at least another 40,000 troops to win the war …

October 19, 2009 – 8:24 am | By Rootless | Posted in In the News | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)