{"id":1836,"date":"2009-09-24T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2009-09-24T06:57:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T14:57:12","slug":"recent-articles-compiled-by-historians-against-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2009\/09\/recent-articles-compiled-by-historians-against-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent articles compiled by Historians Against the War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second in a biweekly series of links to recent articles that provide historical background on HAW-relevant topics. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/gabriel-kolko\/2009\/09\/23\/the-united-states-in-afghanistan-eight-years-later\">\u201cThe United States in Afghanistan: Eight Years Later\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Gabriel Kolko, antiwar.com, posted September 24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2009\/09\/22\/no_more_troops_to_afghanistan\/\">\u201cNo More Troops to Afghanistan\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy H. D. S. Greenway, Boston Globe, posted September 23<br \/>\n(historically based article by a mainstream foreign policy columnist)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175116\/ann_jones_us_or_them_in_afghanistan_\">\u201cUs or Them in Afghanistan\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Ann Jones, TomDispatch.com, posted September 20<br \/>\n(not a historical article, strictly speaking, but an extraordinarily well-informed look at the \u201ctraining\u201d of Afghan soldiers and policement)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2009\/09\/is-afghanistan-vietnam-or-iraq-arguing.html\">\u201cIs Afghanistan Vietnam or Iraq? Arguing with Obama and Rubin\u201d<br \/>\n<\/a>By Juan Cole, Informed Comment (juancole.com), posted September 17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/Print\/2009\/091709a.html\">\u201cA Bad Vietnam Lesson for Afghanistan\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Douglas Valentine, Consortium News, posted September 17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175115\">\u201cIs America Hooked on War?\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, posted September 17<br \/>\n(steps back and looks at the militarized present as a distinct period in US history)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2009\/091509b.html\"><br \/>\n\u201cHow the Soviet Menace Was Hyped\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Melvin A. Goodman, Consortium News, posted September 15<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/print\/20090910_a_hundred_holocausts_an_insiders_window_into_us_nuclear_policy\"><br \/>\n\u201cA Hundred Holocausts: An Insider\u2019s Window Into U.S. Nuclear Policy&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nby Daniel Ellsberg, in Truthdig.com, posted September 10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175112\/rebecca_solnit_9_11_s_living_monuments\">\u201c9\/11\u2019s Living Monuments\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com, posted September 10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/23110\">\u201cEntangled Giant\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Garry Wills, New York Review of Books, posted September 10<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions for inclusion are welcome: they can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.  Members of the working group for this project are listed below.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nMatt Bokovoy<br \/>\nCarolyn (Rusti) Eisenberg<br \/>\nJim O&#8217;Brien<br \/>\nMaia Ramnath<br \/>\nSarah Shields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second in a biweekly series of links to recent articles that provide historical background on HAW-relevant topics. \u201cThe United States in Afghanistan: Eight Years Later\u201d By Gabriel Kolko, antiwar.com, posted September 24 \u201cNo More Troops to Afghanistan\u201d By H. D. S. Greenway, Boston Globe, posted September 23 (historically based article by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}