Gandhara-style Buddha; Afghan woman looking out a destroyed window (AP/File).
KABUL, Afghanistan (ancient Buddhist Gandhara) – It's make-or-break time in Afghanistan. The US war on Afghanistan enters its 10th year today [although to be fair the US has been at war for almost all of its 234 years], and this is no ordinary war anniversary.
With extra American troops now in place, this is the critical juncture to determine if President Obama's revised war stategy will work [to ensure that peace does not ruin the profit-motives that caused us to begin this war in the first place]. More>>