Afghanistan: Imagine There’s No Future
By Daniel Lazare, March 06, 2020
Little, if anything, about the peace agreement signed last weekend in Qatar makes sense. It calls for a phased, fourteen-month withdrawal of 12,000 US troops in exchange for what the New York Times called “vague” commitments on the Taliban’s part to protect the civil liberties, the very idea of which is ludicrous. It requires the Taliban to combat Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups operations even though Taliban military commander Sirajuddin Haqqani heads a subgroup known as the Haqqani Network that is itself on the State Department’s list of officially proscribed terrorist organizations.
Why Is the US Apparently Not Testing for the COVID-19 Coronavirus?
By Larry Romanoff, March 06, 2020
The CDC produced a series of test kits that produced wildly random results, positive or