US commanders in eastern Afghanistan want to double the amount of money they spend on military-led reconstruction in an attempt to choke off popular support for Taliban militants. The call for an increase in special funds, to be spent at the ...

While Colon Powell's "we broke it, we bought it" argument has convinced many of the need to stay in Iraq—including myself until recently—that sense of responsibility for post-war recovery has been noticeably absent from our involvement in Afghanistan. From the minute the Taliban fell and the U.S. tu ...