George W. Bush once boasted that the US presence in Afghanistan has ‘given “freedom and democracy” to 25 million Afghans.’ To propel the war in Afghanistan, ‘Bush frightened Americans with a bogus nuclear threat: “Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears. . . . We have found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and [...]

Obama’s ‘war of necessity’ is waged against the Taliban that are a ‘polyglot collection of conflicting political currents whose goals are local, not universal jihad.’ The Taliban have always asserted that they do not pose any international threat. They are not even interested in having anything to do with the al-Qaeda whose desired collapse is [...]