[haw-info] HAW Notes (including links to recent articles of interest)

[Jim O'Brien]

To members and friends of Historians Against the War,



Here are some notes, followed by the latest in our biweekly set of links to
history-related articles on HAW-relevant topics.



1.  For those attending the AHA convention later this week, this is a
reminder of the HAW panel and discussion at 5:00 – 6:30 pm Saturday, on
“Obama’s Troubling First Year: What Went Wrong and What Can Historians Do
About It?”  It is in the secondary convention hotel, the San Diego Marriott,
in the New York and Orlando Rooms.



2.  The following scholars have accepted invitations to join a newly
constituted Advisory Board for Historians Against the War:  Manan Ahmed,
Chris Appy, Cemil Aydin, Magnus Bernhardsson, Frank Costigliola, Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz, Irene Gendzier, Marvin Gettleman, Joan Hoff, Marilyn Young,
Rashid Khalidi, Peter Kuznick, Vinay Lal, Mark LeVine, Zachary Lockman,
Ellen Schrecker, Martin Sherwin, Barbara Weinstein, and Lawrence Wittner.






Links to Recent Articles of Interest

* *
“Serial Catastrophes in Afghanistan Threaten Obama Policy”

http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/serial-catastrophes-in-afghanistan.html

By *Juan Cole, *Informed Comment web site, posted January 4



*The $30bn Pair of Underpants*
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/01/20101391534922682.html By Mark
LeVine, Aljazeera.net, posted January 4   “Obama’s Post-Modern War of
Attrition” http://www.counterpunch.org/bacevich01012010.html By Andrew
Bacevich, CounterPunch, January 1-3 edition, originally published in *New
York Daily News*   “Catcher’s Mitt: Obama, Pakistan and the Afghan Wars to
Come” http://www.merip.org/mero/mero123109.html By Graham Usher, Middle East
Report Online, posted December 31   “The Moment That Changed Afghanistan”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/28/afghanistan-1979-america-intervention/print

By *Stephen Kinzer, **The Guardian, *posted December 28



*“The Revolution Will Be Mercantilized”*

http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=22602

By *Ali Ansari, **The National Interest *online, Posted December 21

*on the Revolutionary Guard in Iran; the author teaches history at St.
Andrews University*



*“**The Best Argument for the Afghan War - and What’s Wrong with It**”*

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/507353/print

By *Jon Wiener, **The Nation *blog, posted December 17


“Obama’s Indecent Interval: Despite the U.S. President’s Pleas to the
Contrary, the War in Afghanistan Looks More Like Vietnam than Ever”

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/12/10/sorry_obama_afghanistans_your_vietnam

By *Thomas H. Johnson *and *M. Chris Mason, **Foreign Policy, *December 10



*“Was Kosovo the Good War?”*

http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/jul_09_gibbs

By David Gibbs, *Tikkun, *July-August 2009
The author teaches history and government at the University of Arizona




*Suggestions for inclusion in these lists are welcome:  they can be sent to
jimobrien48 at gmail.com.  Members of the working group for this project are
Matt Bokovoy, Carolyn (Rusti) Eisenberg, Jim O'Brien, Maia Ramnath, and
Sarah Shields.*
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