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Welcome to my blog - I'm Charles Reed and I advise the Church of England on foreign policy issues.
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Tag Archives: Taliban
Staying the Distance in Afghanistan
Which ever way you look at it it’s been a perilously bad few months for NATO operations in Afghanistan. The Quran burning incident allied to video footage of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban fighters followed by … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, David Cameron, ISAF, NATO, President Karzai, President Obama, Taliban
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Christianity, Diplomacy and War – Talking to The Taliban
By some strange coincidence, which I won’t bore you with, the decision to re-read some of the documents produced by the Church in response to 9/11 has led me to revisit Herbert Butterfield’s 1953 essay Christianity, Diplomacy and War. For … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Herbert Butterfield, James Dobbins, James Shinn, post 9/11, President George Bush, Rand Corporation, Taliban
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