“Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime”….or so they say. This past week the US government signed a deal in Kabul agreeing to support the Afghan government with $4-billion dollars per year for a maximum of ten years following Read More…
Author: Paige MacKenzie
Paige MacKenzie is a graduate of Simon Fraser University. She has a BA in international studies with a specialization in security and international organizations. Her research interests include Central Asian security issues and terrorism. She recently completed an internship with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.
Afghanistan’s War of Words and Opinion
In what can only be described as yet another blow to the US deployment in Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai asked the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), most of whom are US troops—to move out of rural areas and villages, back to their main bases. This is in response to the killing and desecration Read More…