Blue America Welcomes Eric Massa For A Talk On Afghanistan
crooksandliars.com 9/26/2009 — Last night two of the blogosphere's brightest lights posted on the difficulties Obama is facing when it comes to turning around U.S. Afghanistan policy. Digby, who recounted a 1964 conversation between McGeorge Bundy and President Lyndon Johnson about ...

How to adjust in Afghanistan
ricks.foreignpolicy.com 29 days ago — A veteran infantryman with much time in the Middle East, and other wars, writes in with the following suggestions. Life is getting rough. He begins with how to target Karzai's relatives: Putting and adequate number of troops ...

The Surge
mudvillegazette.com 10/13/2009 — This Washington Post story has caught the attention of political bloggers - I can never tell what newspaper stories will. The only "new" part of this one is someone has decided to figure out how many "support troops" or "enablers" have been sent to Afghanistan this year. Since it does note ...

Overall, Afghanistan More Lethal For U.S. Soldiers Than Iraq (CHART)
huffingtonpost.com 10/19/2009 — Scroll down for charts How dangerous is it to be a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan? Until last year, headlines were dominated by the horrific violence in Iraq with gruesome tales of IED explosions and sniper fire cutting down American troops. In ...

US Is Doing No Good in Afghanistan
commondreams.org 14 days ago — by Malalai Joya As an Afghan woman who was elected to Parliament, I am in the United States to ask President Barack Obama to immediately end the occupation of my country. Eight years ago, women's rights were used as one of the excuses to start this ...

The CIA Is In Afghanistan
justoneminute.typepad.com 29 days ago — Here we go with another leak seemingly intended to undermine the notion that the US can succeed in Afghanistan: KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal...

Sen. Kerry’s Colossal Error of Judgment
weeklystandard.com 10/19/2009 — Over the weekend, Sen. John Kerry provided some covering fire for President Obama’s dithering about his strategy for Afghanistan, telling CBS News that: "I don't see how President Obama can make a decision about the committing of our additional ...

The Debate on Afghanistan
outsidethebeltway.com 10/13/2009 — The debate of Afghanistan continues in the nation’s opinion pages. Robert Kaplan in The Atlantic makes the case for counter-insurgency: Obama needs to get behind his chosen general as soon as possible and put this spectacle of ...

Colors
michaelyon-online.com 30 days ago — A military watchdog gets it wrong on the debate over camouflage. By Michael Yon Some things are not as they seem. Many people, for instance, seem to think Stars & Stripes is a military lapdog, but this is untrue. If Washington had a yearbook, ...

Afghanistan: Blame Game instead of Great Game?
themoderatevoice.com 15 days ago — Who is to blame that we are not winning in Afghanistan? Karzai, Obama, NATO, the Europeans, or Jimmy Carter again? Afghanistan’s President Karzai was criticized a lot lately. Now the Wall Street Journal ’s Bret Stephens comes to his defense and puts the blame on NATO. He makes the ...

Krakauer: McChrystal shouldn't be in charge in Afghanistan — CNN Political Ticker 20 days ago
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Best-selling author Jon Krakauer sharply criticized Gen. Stanley McChrystal for his handling of former NFL player-turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman's death, in an interview with CNN scheduled to air Saturday. Tillman was ...

Iraq again seeks international bombing probe (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 20 days ago
AP - Iraq's foreign minister has reiterated his country's request for a high-level international envoy to investigate the extent of foreign involvement in recent bombings of government institutions.

Afghanistan hits back at U.N. and foreign criticism (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 20 days ago
Reuters - Afghanistan accused the United Nations on Saturday of intervening in the formation of President Hamid Karzai's next cabinet, less than a week into his new term.

UN: About 200 staff to be pulled from Afghanistan (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 20 days ago
AP - The U.N. says hundreds of its staffers will be temporarily pulled out of Afghanistan in the wake of an Oct. 28 attack that killed five of its workers, but it's still determining exactly how many.

US: More foreign troops certain in new Afghan plan (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 20 days ago
AP - A top Pentagon official says President Barack Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan will be certain to include reinforcements of foreign troops from both the United States and allied nations.