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Afghanistan-- Possibly Worse For Obama (And America) Than Even Rahm Emanuel
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com - 12/8/2008
Afghanistan-- Possibly Worse For Obama (And America) Than Even Rahm Emanuel
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Afghanistan: not a very nice place lately Yesterday the NY Times reported that the military is preparing a big troop buildup in Afghanistan . This could be a terrible miscalculation and I'm only slightly less worried about it under Obama than I was under Bush. In fact... when you think ...

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Firedoglake:  Why Surge When the War is Already Lost?

latimesblogs.latimes.com - 12/8/2008
Terror, recession, oh, workout fiend Obama's still a smoker
— latimesblogs.latimes.com — While you were watching football this morning and afternoon President-elect Barack Obama had a busy day, though part of it was pre-recorded on Saturday. We have three news videos below, plus the transcript of Obama's Sunday morning interview on ... (more) Terror, recession, oh, workout fiend Obama's still a smoker

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guardian.co.uk - 12/9/2008
Convoy attacks trigger race to open new Afghan supply lines
— guardian.co.uk — Nato countries are scrambling for alternative routes as far afield as Belarus and Ukraine to supply their forces in Afghanistan, which are increasingly vulnerable to a resurgent Taliban, the Guardian has learned. Four serious attacks on US and Nato ... (more) Convoy attacks trigger race to open new Afghan supply lines

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Taliban in 72 Percent of Afghanistan, Think-Tank Says
abcnews.go.com - 12/8/2008
Taliban in 72 Percent of Afghanistan, Think-Tank Says
— abcnews.go.com — KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban hold a permanent presence in 72 percent of Afghanistan, a think-tank said on Monday, but NATO and the Afghan government rejected the report, saying its figures were not credible. The findings by the International Council ... (more) Taliban in 72 Percent of Afghanistan, Think-Tank Says

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Why Surge When the War is Already Lost?
Firedoglake — ... First, take a look at Howie’s recent post over at Down with Tyranny. He reminds us that “hubris is what ends big strong empires... and this one isn't immune, not by a long shot.” And then provides a much needed must-read primer on the recent history of US relations with Afghanistan. ...

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huffingtonpost.com 12/10/2008 — No more than one year ago, it was widely assumed that the great foreign policy challenge facing the next president would be what to do with U.S. troops in Iraq. The surge had produced a unexpected geopolitical dilemma: was the reduction of violence ...
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Get Afghanistan Right
dailykos.com 1/13/2009 — An ad hoc group of bloggers has come together for the purpose of opposing a U.S.-led escalation in Afghanistan that is slated to double the number of American troops there.   Organized by Alex Thurston at The Seminal and Robert Greenwald's ...
Obama's Got One Thing Right About the Mess In Afghanistan-- It's Inexorably Connected To The Mess In Pakistan
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com 1/12/2009 — Pretty, yes, but worth fighting a war over? In yesterday's NY Times Magazine chief Washington correspondent David Sanger paints a horrifying picture of Obama's Worst Pakistan Nightmare ; it would be more accurate to emphasize that the nightmare ...
This is How I End Up Getting Sucked In
obsidianwings.blogs.com 12/10/2008 — by Eric Martin Anand Gopal has an informative piece on the make-up of the "Taliban" movement in Afghanistan.  The piece reinforces a few concepts that should inform our future policy vis-a-vis Afghanistan: First, the Karzai ...
More Troops for Afghanistan
attackerman.firedoglake.com 2/18/2009 — He promised to do so on the campaign trail, and now he's done it: President Barack Obama has approved a troop increase to Afghanistan. His just-released statement is below. Notice that the forces approved appears to be less than the 20,000-30,000 ...
Obama's Team Stumbling into Afghan Trap
thewashingtonnote.com 1/26/2009 — (photo credit: Jon Taplin's Blog ) In the book, America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy , which is an April-May 2008 rolling conversation between former national security advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski and ...
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Getting Afghanistan Right
agonist.org 1/14/2009 — Memo to President-Elect Obama: "Now it is folly to go against men who could not be kept under even if conquered, while failure would leave us in a very different position from that which we occupied before the enterprise." Thucydides, VI, 11. ...
Afghanistan is NOT the Good War
thewashingtonnote.com 12/14/2008 — 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 ...
Obama’s Remarks on Shinseki as Veterans Affairs Secretary — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 12/7/2008
The following text is President-elect Barack Obama’s prepared remarks on his selection of retired Gen. Eric Shinseki as secretary of Veterans Affairs. Earlier this week, I announced key members of my national security team. They have served ...
Sunday Talk: Assessing Pakistan’s Response to Mumbai — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 12/7/2008
Christopher Conkey reports from Washington. In separate interviews, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President-elect Barack Obama on Sunday addressed Pakistan’s response to the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, that killed ...
Taliban Expanding in Afghanistan — WSJ.com: Politics And Policy 12/8/2008
The Taliban have expanded their footprint in Afghanistan and now have a permanent presence in nearly three-quarters of the country, a new report said.
U.S. Army Seeking Private Contractors to Work as Security Guards at Forward Operating Bases in Seven Afghan Provinces — Wash Post Federal Page 12/8/2008
The U.S. Army is looking to private contractors to provide armed security guards to protect Forward Operating Bases in seven provinces in southern Afghanistan. In a recent study, Anthony H. Cordesman, an intelligence expert at the Center for Strategic ...
Iran Urges Obama to Change Approach — NYT > Politics 12/8/2008
Iran said that it would not abandon its nuclear program and urged President-elect Obama to change America’s carrot-and-stick policy toward Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported. >