Category Archives: War in Afghanistan
No More Wars: Interview with Michael von der Schulenburg
IADL Review: Thank you for accepting this interview by Mail and for answering the following questions from the IADL Review “International Review of Contemporary Law”. Your CV is impressive: starting with your childhood and adolescence in the GDR. Could you tell us and younger generations more about your family members in the resistance against the…
The Cold War only ends with NATO’s defeat in the Hindu Kush
I have always loved Afghanistan and the friendliness and hospitality of its people. I experienced Afghans not as extremists but as an extraordinarily proud, sincere and honest people who are scraping a living out of the harsh conditions of their country. I miss the mountains with their snow caps, the narrow green valleys with their…
A bit more about that Afghanistan population problem
David Archibald, writing in American Thinker last week, has an interesting analysis of population growth and the dependence on wheat imports in Afghanistan. I thank him for this analysis. Let me add an observation I made when I accompanied Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi to Afghanistan to open the U.N. office — later called UNAMI — in…
Afghanistan: Peace In A Glasshouse
The Emergency Loya Jirga is over. Given circumstances it was no doubt a success. It took place at the time foreseen in the Bonn Agreement; it brought together in apparent harmony the various ethnic communities of Afghanistan and voted a new President for the Afghan Transitional Administration. The majority of the members of the Loya…
Foreign Troops And Peace In Afghanistan
The President of the Interim Administration for Afghanistan has recently made great efforts to convince the international community to increase the deployment of foreign troops in his country. In doing so, he responded to the mounting instability in Kabul and other regions. Foreign troops, he and most of his cabinet colleagues argue, should help maintain…
Fighting Terrorism In Afghanistan And Milton Friedman’s Airplane
All wars are fought with money. If one wants to know who wins and who looses, simply watch the money markets: the money of the winner wins while the money of the looser loses — its that simple. Business is always with the winner, so the wisdom goes and to know this, we really do…