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Afghanistan War

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    'We Need to Take That Frickin' Hill': Sgt. Tavis Delaney Awarded Silver Star for Afghanistan Ambush Heroics (VIDEO)

    With his unit ambushed by more than 200 Taliban fighters and trapped in a firefight that lasted more than 13 hours, Sgt. Tavis Delaney went into hero mode. After coordinating a series of airstrikes, the Washington Air National Guardsman rallied his fellow soldiers for an uphill charge that was caugh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Seattle Marine Sgt. William Stacey Becomes the 1,189th American Fighter to Die in Afghanistan

    Stacey​The Catch 22 of the war in Afghanistan is the longer we stay, the longer we have to stay. The daily cost in lives and treasury makes it ever more necessary to leave, yet creates an investment that's increasingly difficult to forsake. The generals think the solution is the ongoing Iraq- ... More >>

  • News

    September 21, 2011

    Afghanistan 2001-2011

    Stacey​The Catch 22 of the war in Afghanistan is the longer we stay, the longer we have to stay. The daily cost in lives and treasury makes it ever more necessary to leave, yet creates an investment that's increasingly difficult to forsake. The generals think the solution is the ongoing Iraq- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Patty Murray's Afghan Question to Robert Gates: What About the Human Cost of War?

    Barrett​Most of the testimony on defense spending yesterday at the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing in D.C. focused on Barack Obama's planned 2012 Afghanistan war drawdown, particularly the timing and politics of ending a war we can't win. For some, withdrawal can't come too ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Cynthia Stroum, Obama Mega-Donor and Ambassador to Luxembourg, Back in Seattle After Shamed Resignation

    ​There are few cushier jobs in U.S. diplomacy than an ambassador post in Luxembourg (The Bahamas, maybe?). In fact, It took venture capitalist and Seattle native Cynthia Stroum raising about $500,000 for Barack Obama's 2008 campaign in order for her to land the job as a reward. Unfortunately, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Obama to Answer YouTube Questions Today: Ex-King County Cop's Drug Legalization Query Tops the List

    ​Unemployment is at 9.4 percent, the war in Afghanistan is dragging on, the education system is failing children, and foreign countries are inching ahead of the U.S. in major industries. But what people really care about--what 99 of the top 100 questions submitted for President Obama's YouTube ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Bowe Bergdahl, Northwest Soldier Captured By Taliban, Seen Alive in New Video

    ​For nearly 18 months now, Spc. Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho has been held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan. He's popped up in videos three other times, sporting Afghan-style clothes and looking thin and sometimes beaten. Now, a new video has surfaced showing Bergdahl. And while he appe ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 1, 2010

    David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill

    ​For nearly 18 months now, Spc. Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho has been held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan. He's popped up in videos three other times, sporting Afghan-style clothes and looking thin and sometimes beaten. Now, a new video has surfaced showing Bergdahl. And while he appe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Patty Murray Reluctantly Agrees to Lead Senate Dems' Fundraising Efforts in 2012

    ​As we reported about a week and a half ago, rumors were flying around political circles that Washington's own Sen. Patty Murray might get picked as the next chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The job description for the position includes raising enough money to ensure that ... More >>

  • Film

    September 1, 2010

    The Tillman Story: Football Hero Falls to Friendly Fire

    ​As we reported about a week and a half ago, rumors were flying around political circles that Washington's own Sen. Patty Murray might get picked as the next chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The job description for the position includes raising enough money to ensure that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    West Seattle Sailor Missing in Afghanistan, Taliban Claims He's a Hostage

    ​UPDATE: Jarod Newlove is dead. His body was recovered yesterday. On Friday, two sailors, including one from West Seattle, drove away from their base in Kabul in an armored white SUV on a 60-mile trip into the mountainous Logar Province. Why only two men in a single vehicle, as opposed to a c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Military to Boot Fast Food from Afghan Bases, Return Soldiers to 21st Century

    ​There's been a lot of reporting over the past few days on U.S. and NATO efforts to boot various fast food restaurants from the big military bases in Afghanistan. According to the Christian Science Monitor, "[Kandahar Air Base] in southern Afghanistan is NATO's largest in the country and the m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    A.M. Music News: Suge Knight Kanye, Taliban Metallica, and M.I.A. Gaga

    M.I.A.​-- MTV: M.I.A. on Lady Gaga: "None of her music's reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza disco, you know?" -- Rolling Stone: The Rolling Stones' "Plunder My Soul" -- one of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Duff McKagan: Surely There Is a Better Way in the Middle East. Even a Rocker Like Me Knows That

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. Check back on Monday when he writes about what's playing on his iPod.​Many may scoff when they see I am writing a pseudo-political piece. Many, too, will likely proclaim that I have no right to take up a pen on a topic as lofty and complex a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    War Anniversary: Counting Up Civilian Army Toll

    ​Todd Drobnick, 35, of Everett, was a Gulf War I vetern but died in Gulf War II - Iraq - as a civilian. He was killed in a head-on crash Nov. 22, 2003, near Mosul, working as an interpreter on security and intelligence assignments for U.S. defense contractor Titan Corp. In a flag-draped casket ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    King County's Taliban: Sloth and Disinterest

    ​Just a note to the approximately 750,000 King County registered voters who couldn't be bothered to make their ways to the polls - stroll through the sunshine to the corner mailbox - by Tuesday night: Millions went to the polls in Afghanistan Thursday even while the Taliban upped its efforts ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2008

    Dick Cheney's Other Starring Role

    ​Just a note to the approximately 750,000 King County registered voters who couldn't be bothered to make their ways to the polls - stroll through the sunshine to the corner mailbox - by Tuesday night: Millions went to the polls in Afghanistan Thursday even while the Taliban upped its efforts ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2007

    The War Math

    ​Just a note to the approximately 750,000 King County registered voters who couldn't be bothered to make their ways to the polls - stroll through the sunshine to the corner mailbox - by Tuesday night: Millions went to the polls in Afghanistan Thursday even while the Taliban upped its efforts ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2007

    Unnoticed Milestone: 3,500

    ​Just a note to the approximately 750,000 King County registered voters who couldn't be bothered to make their ways to the polls - stroll through the sunshine to the corner mailbox - by Tuesday night: Millions went to the polls in Afghanistan Thursday even while the Taliban upped its efforts ... More >>

  • News

    November 29, 2006

    Soldiers of Fortune

    An elite Army Ranger, back from Iraq, led his cohorts in a precision hold-up, cops say. If money wasn't the motive, what was?

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2006

    State of Denial: Our New Dead

    An elite Army Ranger, back from Iraq, led his cohorts in a precision hold-up, cops say. If money wasn't the motive, what was?

  • Film

    April 26, 2006

    The Beauty Academy of Kabul

    Showing at Varsity, Fri., April 28–Thurs., May 4. Not rated. 74 minutes.

  • Film

    February 18, 2004

    This Week's Attractions

    Showing at Varsity, Fri., April 28–Thurs., May 4. Not rated. 74 minutes.

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Facing Our Losses - Afghanistan

    Washington's toll in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the War on Terror.

  • Film

    April 16, 2003

    The Singing Detective

    Washington's toll in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the War on Terror.

  • Arts

    April 9, 2003

    Cartoon Nation

    Why Michael Moore and Michael Savage are the defining characters, and caricatures, of our political times.

  • Film

    December 18, 2002

    Love and Mortar

    A simple, powerful tale of adolescents in Iran.

  • News

    July 24, 2002

    War of the Worlds

    Are terrorists in our midst?

  • Film

    January 9, 2002

    The searchers

    Mission of mercy reveals ugly, beautiful truths.

  • Arts

    December 12, 2001

    A Man's World

    A look at women's "contented" lives under the Taliban.

  • News

    November 21, 2001

    Food first

    A look at women's "contented" lives under the Taliban.

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Strange board fellows

    From Unocal to United for Seattle's Jack Creighton—with the Taliban between.

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