thewashingtonnote.com - 12/14/2008
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I will write much more about this subject in coming days, but I am increasingly worried about the framing that America's next President and his team are applying to Iraq and Afghanistan.
To be blunt, they have been arguing that "Iraq was the bad war and Afghanistan is the good war," not ...
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Bush Ducks Shoes Thrown in Iraq, Continues to Afghanistan
tnr.com - 12/11/2008
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Around the time of the November election, John
Nagl, a retired Army Colonel, took a helicopter ride
across Afghanistan. What he saw below worried him. Nagl, who is 42 with trim brown hair and academic eyeglasses, spent three years in Iraq, including ...
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Instahoglets December 14, 2008
Newshoggers.com —
... -Steve Clemons is worried that Afghanistan will be the place where the dreams and hopes of the Obama Presidency are buried. He writes: "we shouldn't allow corruption scandals and other silly posturing on Sunday morning shows to distract us from the reality that we are on a quite negative trajectory in Afghanistan (and Pakistan) right now -- and we need whopping game-changing moves there that are as significant, if not more, than challenges about America's auto sector." Agreed, unfortunately. ...
Will Afghanistan Be Obama's Downfall?
Newshoggers.com —
... and Afghanistan as best as possible (and that would require Iran's co-operation) . At the moment that's politically unacceptable, even if as we've seen things are changing. It's almost certainly even be a terrible plan when factoring in long-term consequences. Staying is a bust, going is a bust. The best thing anyone can say about untangling the region's knotted problems is "well, I wouldn't start from here." But this is where Bush leaves off and Obama will take over. Steve Clemons writes: ...
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