pajamasmedia.com - 11/10/2008
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The president-elect will face escalating violence, feckless allies, and time that's quickly running out.
prnewswire.com - 11/11/2008
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In Time for Veterans Day, Campaign Directs Veterans
to the First and Only Online Community Created Exclusively...
for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans New York, NY (November 10, 2008) /PRNewswire/ In an effort to help ease the transition and readjustment ...
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IAVA and Ad Council Launch National PSA Campaign for ...
washingtonpost.com - 11/11/2008
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Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or
other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from...
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Obama to Explore New Approach in Afghanistan War
sfgate.com - 11/11/2008
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sfgate.com —
June Moss drove from Kuwait to Iraq as
an Army engineer in a truck convoy. When she...
returned to the United States, she lost her home, and drove her two young children from hotel to hotel across Northern California. Sean McKeen, a hardy, ...
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Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans join the homeless
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Minority Report (Part III)
Mudville Gazette —
Mike Yon: Afghan Quicksand Awaits Obama. While security in Iraq continues to improve, Afghanistan is drowning in a frothing quicksand. While most of the 2008 fighting season is over, we can be assured that the Afghan national sport — guerrilla warfare — will become the 2009 Taliban Olympics by April. They know this is a marathon.Mike likens Afghanistan to "solving a human Rubik’s Cube during a firefight while the media screams every time you make a wrong move". I'm not certain the media will be screaming. No doubt there will be ...
Afghan Quicksand Awaits Obama - Michael Yon’s Latest
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... refuse to fight. The bulk of NATO amounts to little more than a “Taliban piñata.” The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is proving nearly worthless and provides no credible threat to armed opposition groups (AOGs) in Afghanistan. Most of the NATO member countries seem to break out in a cold sweat at the mere mention of “Taliban.” They piled in when the war looked easy and largely humanitarian. But now that it’s getting harder and more dangerous, they would like to pile out.
Read the full article here.
Yon: Afghan Quicksand Awaits Obama
Little Green Footballs —
... Michael Yon on one of the biggest problems the new president will have to face: Afghan Quicksand Awaits Obama. ...
Beefing Up NATO
Weekly Standard Blog —
President-elect Obama's most confounding national security challenge may not lie with our enemies, but rather our allies.
Michael Yon writes
Most of our allies are not very helpful. With the exception of the British, Canadians, Dutch, and a few others such as the Aussies, we are not fighting this with an “A-team” of international allies. With a few exceptions, our allies on the ground are comprised of several dozen countries that mostly refuse to fight. The bulk of NATO amounts to little more than a “Taliban piñata.” The North Atlantic Treaty ...
Yon Afghanistan
Jules Crittenden —
... Announces we’re losing, then clarifies to say that we can win, but we need to fight, and send more troops … the useful Greater Anglosphere kind, not the useless Euro kind, please see to it President-elect Obama, don’t go wobbly and don’t screw up Iraq . Notes that the Taliban isn’t doing itself any favors, either. Mostly they destroy things that their countrymen want — including peace and the prospect of increased prosperity. They cut off lips and noses and douse women with gasoline and burn them alive. Just recently, a group of enemies apparently tried to bait us into killing ...
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weeklystandard.com 2/25/2009 — Senator McCain is just now delivering a speech at AEI on the war in Afghanistan. Some highlights:
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In a New Administration, Some Brand-New Jobs? —
Wash Post Federal Page 11/11/2008
The intense competition among Democrats for top jobs in the incoming Obama administration assumes there are a fixed number of posts worth having. But it's looking likely that some extremely choice, even consequential, positions are going to be created ...
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