If mentioning my friends is beginning to sound like I’m congratulating myself on my own popularity, I apologize. As it happens, however, one of my good friends is about to ship out to Afghanistan with the U.S. Army and some of my old friends in the Air Force ROTC are…
Counterterrorism at the expense of Counterinsurgency
Earlier this month I wrote an article criticizing as dangerous George Will’s plan to withdraw from Afghanistan. Now, it has come out that Joe Biden is advocating a similar plan to draw down troop levels, give up protecting the Afghan government and people and instead use special forces and drones…
Afghanistan
This past week, conservative columnist George Will shocked many conservatives by publicly calling for a withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Will’s arguments are that Afghanistan is too poor and lawless to ever become a functioning nation-state anytime soon, and that the war will take too long of a commitment…
The Fallen
Today, UNC senior John Petrone pointed out in a letter to the editor that our UNC community has missed something. And we at CRdaily are acting on his request that this university not forget the individual of whom he wrote. This past month, Army Private First Class Morris Walker, of…