Why a counterterror program in the Sahara needs to be eliminated, not reformed
The “Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership Program” has done more harm than good and wasted taxpayer dollars.
The “Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership Program” has done more harm than good and wasted taxpayer dollars.
The president has made some tentatively positive moves on drone strikes and AUMF. But let’s take a deeper look.
The State Department’s terrorist lists have become politicized and counterproductive.
Keeping US troops there beyond the May 1 deadline won’t do anything to help intra-Afghan peace talks.
Intra-Afghan negotiations resumed earlier this month and we asked a diverse group of Afghans about the process and their role in it.
Let the record show: Trump poured fuel on our endless wars and kicked diplomacy to the curb.
Pompeo’s recent abuse of terrorism designations is part of the Trump administration’s salting of the earth before giving way to the Biden administration.
The 2001 AUMF must not only be repealed, but Congress and the president must also reassess US counterterrorism strategy.
The Emirates have managed to frame suppression of domestic dissent as counterterrorism, and the U.S. says nothing.
As we look inwards to dismantle America’s legacy of racism, we must also recognize that racism and militarism abroad are mutually reinforcing.
The work of U.N. specialized agencies must not be subordinated to the aspirations of those who want to hijack the U.N. to serve their counterterrorism politics irrespective of everything else.
US policymakers routinely see the African continent as a battlefield in the so-called “war on terror” rather than the opportunity for economic partnership that it is.
The US needs to state its objectives clearly so that we’re not bogged down in counterterrorism operations indefinitely.
Applying the war metaphor to counterterrorism got us a war in Iraq. Applying it to the fight against COVID-19 can have similar disastrous consequences.
A parallel narrative that unfolded alongside the post-9/11 wars exposes the utter irrelevance of the national security state as currently constituted.
There simply is no military-only, or even military-centered, solution to ridding West Africa and the Sahel from terrorism.
The former vice president also doesn’t have much to say about the Obama administration’s foreign policy failures.
The number of extremist groups in North Africa have only grown as the U.S. military presence there has expanded.
To create peace and stability in other nations, we must elevate their people to prosperity, instead of crushing them.
The rhetorical power of using ‘defeat’ as a shorthand comes with dangers that are likely best avoided by adopting the clarity of simply stating the desired objective.
If George W. Bush and Barack Obama sowed the seeds of the American chaos machine, Donald Trump represents the first true madman at the wheel of state, thanks to his volatile temperament, profound ignorance, and crippling insecurity.