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Published 2/1/2009 at L.A. Times - Politics
Fixing Afghanistan and Pakistan will be harder than fixing Iraq, and the penalties for failure are greater.
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In his presidential campaign, Barack Obama sometimes made foreign policy sound like a simple matter of changing the tone, turning the page -- and moving 10,000 troops from Iraq to Afghanistan.
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