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Iranian Access Routes into Afghanistan
In a recent item in the NYT (December 31), there was extensive discussion of the need for alternative supply routes into Afghanistan for both military and development assistance. The Khyber pass may s… more →
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Iranian Access Routes into Afghanistan
R. D. Gastil wrote 11 months ago: In a recent item in the NYT (December 31), there was extensive discussion of the need for alternativ … more →
Kangaroo burger, anyone?
lynosy wrote 1 year ago: As a vegetarian, I’m not telling you to “go kill and eat a kangaroo right now.” Ho … more →
New Ideologies
tombrainridge wrote 1 year ago: The last decade witnessed a growing awareness In Europe of the exhaustion of the nineteenth-century … more →
Iraqi Kurdistan: Democratic or Democratic Enough?
R. D. Gastil wrote 2 years ago: In a recent Op-Ed, Thomas Friedman proposed that if we lose out on all our other dreams in Iraq, we … more →
Blood in the Sand
R. D. Gastil wrote 2 years ago: The more we learn about Iraq, the less we seem to know. Americans try to get between the killers and … more →
American Irrresponsibility
R. D. Gastil wrote 2 years ago: In Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Nir Rosen had an excellent piece on Iraqi refugees. There … more →
Iraqi Opinions
R. D. Gastil wrote 2 years ago: Juan Cole leads us to consider some recent polls. A recent survey by the British Opinion Research Bu … more →
Afghanistan: Less is More
R. D. Gastil wrote 2 years ago: Rory Stewart, who works out of Kabul, is presently a guest Op-Ed writer for the New York Times. He h … more →
Thoughts on Resolving the Democrat's Dilemma
R. D. Gastil wrote 2 years ago: Unfortunately, the only good strategy most democrats have for getting out of Iraq is a rewriting of … more →
Afghan Democracy
R. D. Gastil wrote 2 years ago: In a recent Op-Ed, Rory Stewart who runs the Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Kabul and has been muc … more →
We Must Negotiate with Iran
R. D. Gastil wrote 2 years ago: In a recent New York Times Op-Ed (January 30), Viorst makes a case for involving the Arab League in … more →
Understanding Iraqis
R. D. Gastil wrote 3 years ago: When I was doing field work in Shiraz in 1958, interviewing a wide variety of people on aspects of I … more →
lucidfluid wrote 3 years ago: infomecial evangelism… why not? (i kno i had a similar idea once… was this is?) but yeah … more →
