thedailybeast.com - 10/30/2009
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BS Top - Sorensen Afghanistan David Guttenfelder / AP Photo Ted Sorensen, John F. Kennedy's closest adviser, says Afghanistan isn't threatening to become another Vietnam. It already is. America s unwise, unwarranted, and sadly unwinnable war in Afghanistan hastily initiated and then abandoned ...
theonion.com - 10/28/2009
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theonion.com —
October 27, 2009 | Issue 45•44 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN—
According to sources at the Pentagon, American quagmire-building efforts...
continued apace in Afghanistan this week, as the geographically rugged, politically unstable region remained ungovernable, ...
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U.S. Continues Quagmire-Building Effort In Afghanistan
taylormarsh.com - 10/30/2009
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This post has been edited and updated with
reporting from the event. The event today, “Afghanistan: Basic...
Questions – Strategic Choices,” was organized by the Rand Corp., with Steve Clemons of NAF. As backdrop, ...
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Afghanistan in the Caucus Room: Levin Slams Cheney
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In The Future, Every War Will Be Vietnam For 15 Minutes
Dean's World —
Today we learn JFK was advised by morons. Well, at least one.
America’s unwise, unwarranted, and sadly unwinnable war in Afghanistan—hastily initiated and then abandoned for Iraq by President Barack Obama’s ideologically blinded predecessor and dumped into Obama’s lap in the worst possible way—is beginning increasingly to smell like the 1964-68 war in South Vietnam that swallowed up the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.
Something smells, all right. Remember when Iraq was the unwinnable war and Iraq-Vietnam parallels were all the ...
In The Future, Every War Will Be Vietnam For 15 Minutes
Classical Values —
In The Future, Every War Will Be Vietnam For 15 Minutes Today we learn JFK was advised by morons. Well, at least one . America's unwise, unwarranted, and sadly unwinnable war in Afghanistan--hastily initiated and then abandoned for Iraq by President Barack Obama's ideologically blinded predecessor and dumped into Obama's lap in the worst possible way--is beginning increasingly to smell like the 1964-68 war in South Vietnam that swallowed up the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Something smells, all right. Remember when Iraq was the unwinnable war and Iraq-Vietnam parallels ...
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