A military surge will not win Afghanistan. Karzai and his corrupt clan have failed the Afghan people. Former presidential candidate Ghani shows us a way out: counterinsurgency economics.
Despite the obvious obstacles, the signs of democracy are encouraging in Kabul, Beirut and Cairo.
Ten simple rules from our experience in Afghanistan.
A sentiment seems to have prevailed among the scribbling classes that Britain is in a general state of decline--intellectually, socially, morally. It's just not so.