Submit a Story!
Votes
topics:

vote down flag
swampland.blogs.time.com - 3/13/2009
Afghanistan Times
—
There are dueling op-eds about Afghanistan policy in the New York Times today, by Les Gelb and by Max Boot and the Kagan Family Singers . The headlines are more extreme than the pieces: Gelb wants to withdraw from Afghanistan (but not really) and the Bootists want to "surge" there (but not ...
Op-Ed Contributor: How to Leave Afghanistan
nytimes.com - 3/13/2009
Op-Ed Contributor: How to Leave Afghanistan
— nytimes.com — Withdrawal from Afghanistan need not mean defeat for America and victory for terrorists, if the full range... of American power is used effectively. > (more) Op-Ed Contributor: How to Leave Afghanistan

Comments vote down Swampland found this 3/13/2009found this
usatoday.com - 3/17/2009
USA TODAY - Afghan war hits peak of disfavor
— usatoday.com — American support for the war in Afghanistan has ebbed to a new low, as attacks on U.S.... troops and their allies have hit record levels and commanders are pleading for reinforcements, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows. (more) USA TODAY - Afghan war hits peak of disfavor

Comments vote down Think Progress found this 3/17/2009found this
michaelyon-online.com - 3/10/2009
The Pathetic Afghan Army & Will Obama Fumble Iraq?
— michaelyon-online.com — The Pathetic Afghan Army & Will Obama Fumble Iraq? 11 March 2009 The disconnect between reporting and... reality on Iraq was dramatic during 2005. Media stories about the incompetence and hopelessness of the Iraqi army and police were like the soup ... (more) The Pathetic Afghan Army & Will Obama Fumble Iraq?

Comments vote down Victory Caucus -- All Content found this 3/10/2009found this

Blog Reactions

Weekly Standard Blog:  The Klein Doctrine

Comments
Blog Reactions

The Klein Doctrine
Weekly Standard Blog — Joe Klein writes that he disagrees with both opinion pieces in the Times today (one by Boot and the Kagans and the other by Leslie Gelb). Klein criticizes Boot et al for focusing too heavily on Afghanistan -- the place where U.S troops are fighting and dying. He criticizes Gelb for imposing a 3-year timeline for withdrawal on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, which Klein says is based on "little more than whim, so far as I can tell." He should know -- he backed the same strategy in Iraq when U.S. troops were engaged in a fierce fight there. ...

Related Content
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 ...
Brandon Friedman: Afghanistan and Pakistan: Obama's First 100 Days
huffingtonpost.com 4/29/2009 — Woody Allen once said "80 percent of success is just showing up." If we translated Allen's words into foreign policy, we'd probably get something like, "80 percent of avoiding catastrophic failure is actively engaging the problems with which you're ...
My Occupation's Known, but Not Why I Occupy
obsidianwings.blogs.com 3/23/2009 — by Eric Martin In a recent post , I took issue with Andrew Exum's claim that counterinsurgency (COIN) practitioners are reluctant to endorse undertaking COIN-based missions - a skepticism that stems from their first hand knowledge of the enormous ...
Terrorism Matters in Afghanistan and Pakistan
democracyarsenal.org 4/9/2009 — Disagreeing with Steve Walt is generally not advisable, because A) he's generally right in the first place, and B) he can turn your best arguments into confetti, but I am going to go ahead and take issue with his  post questioning the ...
Get Afghanistan Right!
getafghanistanright.com 1/12/2009 — Get Afghanistan Right Week posted on January 12th, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum at The Seminal As you may have noticed or may have heard, The Seminal has a new project that is going public this week. Along with fellow bloggers, journalists, and ...
Drama For Obama
mudvillegazette.com 3/17/2009 — Holy s--t, Batman, the danger is imminent : Barack Obama, the US president, is to be told that to avoid a repeat of the devastating 9/11 attacks on America or Britain he must dramatically step up aid to Pakistan. A team headed by Bruce Riedel, a former CIA Middle East expert, asked to ...
Remarks by the President on a New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
whitehouse.gov 3/28/2009 —
The Cost Of A COIN War In Afghanistan
newshoggers.com 3/19/2009 — By Steve Hynd It's apparently a taboo subject - no-one wants to talk about how much a COIN war in Afghanistan will cost or even how long it will last. Conservatives simply don't want to "lose" and don't seem to care about the costs, while ...
Obama Administration Goals in Afghanistan
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 3/27/2009 — One important question that’s been kicking around in Washington is how will the administration define its goals in Afghanistan. Now fresh in my inbox from the State Department is the answer: Achieving our core goal is vital to U.S. national ...
Crunch Time in Afghanistan-Pakistan
smallwarsjournal.com 2/10/2009 — (This is an edited version of my statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan, chaired by Senator John F. Kerry, on 5th February 2009). Senator Joseph Lieberman made a timely and well-argued call, during his recent ...
Officials: Obama's Afghanistan goals due soon (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 3/13/2009
AP - The Obama administration expects to announce new objectives for the flagging war in Afghanistan as soon as next week that place an onus on next-door Pakistan to contain extremism, defense and administration officials said Thursday.
Officials: Obama close to stating new Afghan goals (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 3/13/2009
AP - The Obama administration is close to announcing a redrawn strategy for a war in Afghanistan that the president says the United States is not winning, focusing on enlisting Pakistan in the fight against extremism and trimming U.S. expectations ...
First 100 days: Afghan plans next week? — First Read 3/13/2009
Obama may announce Afghanistan plans as early as next week. Among the goals: "getting rid of terrorist safe havens in Pakistan and adopting a regional approach to reducing the threat of terrorism and extremism in both countries." The plan is expected ...
Obama redrawing strategy for Afghanistan — msnbc.com: Politics 3/13/2009
Officials say the Obama administration's new strategy for a war in Afghanistan will focus on enlisting Pakistan in the fight against extremism and trimming U.S. expectations for military victory.
U.N. says security in Afghanistan may worsen in 2009 (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 3/13/2009
Reuters - Security in Afghanistan has deteriorated and may worsen this year in the face of a renewed Taliban insurgency, the U.N. chief said in a report published Friday.