... the "consultations" Obama has been conducting about Afghanistan for months now came from Rory Stewart, a Brit who is a professor of human rights at the John F ... we wear our seatbelts?" And you say, "Why by all means wear a seatbelt." And they say, "Okay, we consulted with policy expert, Rory Stewart," et cetera. Unhappily, the realities of the Afghanistan situation ...

... of one dissident from the outlines of the McChrystal plan, Rory Stewart: The best Afghan policy would be to reduce the number of ... can maintain for decades to foster a development that will take decades. Stewart might argue (he hasn't) that his strategy is comparable to securing ... a risky derivative bet. Obama could argue that Stewart's course is seductive but false: that a Taliban thriving ...

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... story of Didier Lefèvre’s trip across Afghanistan in the 1980s, because it was such an amazing book.  As it happens, I was reading Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between at the time, one of the best travel books I’ve read in a long time, and Stewart even mentioned running into Lefèvre again on his way across the country in 2002.  But what his book has in ...

... a leg up to a narco-mafia over the more traditional warlords. You listen to journalist Rory Stewart, certainly, and you conclude that building a modern, democratic Afghanistan is a fantasy. The ... from falling apart in the event of a too-rapid withdrawal, a prospect that horrifies Stewart himself: think of Cambodia, not just Vietnam. Besides, the real danger to the region would be chaos in Pakistan, ...

... fight to the death in areas that are often hundreds of miles from their homes. In his wonderful book, The Places in Between, Rory Stewart makes it abundantly clear just how little interest the average Afghan outside the cities has in what's even happening in the next village (unless they're waging a vendetta against it). So ...

... CCHQ criteria and refused to have a quota on their shortlist. Penrith & The Border. Local members want to sack their new and high-profile candidate Rory Stewart after none of the shortlisted candidates was local. Plymouth Sutton: As in Bethnal Green and Bournemouth the local activists refused to endorse the candidate picked by an open ...

... range of backgrounds and all sorts of occupations have put themselves forward. Four have now been selected as parliamentary candidates which shows the process to have been a success.” The four candidates adopted so far are: Rory Stewart, Penrith and The Border; John Walsh, Middlesbrough; Nigel Bonson, Sheffield; and Charlotte Vere, ...

... of the alarming headlines in Pakistan have receded, there’s still plenty of evidence that the Taliban and their affiliates maintain their headquarters, and their recruiting base, across the border. Rory Stewart’s priceless quip about the “cat-tiger strategy” still holds true. – Noah Shachtman and Nathan Hodge

Trying to understand this determination to stay the course no matter how unlikely the prospect of success, it might help to turn to a quip from one expert on Afghanistan, Rory Stewart, who heads the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard and has been consulted by several members of the Obama administration on what to do there. He has ...

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... extremists. Pakistan has nukes. Pakistan has a fairly effective and well-trained army. A rogue Afghanistan is problematic; a rogue Pakistan would be an unmitigated disaster. As Rory Stewart recently put it in testimony to the Foreign Relations committee, Afghanistan is an angry cat and Pakistan is a tiger: “We’re beating ...

Rory Stewart, a British diplomat, author and, now, parliamentary candidate, is the author of “The Places in Between,” a book based on walking the full length of Afghanistan. This is the first part of a lecture he gave on Afghanistan in December 2008, and it's well worth watching. The rest of the lecture is here.

... (linked up top) why not? Then there's Frontline's documentary "Obama's War." An absolute must watch. Finally, check out Rory Stewart on Bill Moyers Journal. Any other great pieces or people to follow regarding Afghanistan? It's Obama's war now, but it's all of our responsibility to be ...