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theglitteringeye.com - 10/25/2009
Are We Promoting Our Grand Strategy?
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This post is less an attempt at proposing a position than at provoking discussion. Militarily the United States has an enormous amount on its plate. We continue to have more than 130,000 troops in Iraq. In accordance with the Status of Forces Agreement negotiated by the Bush Administration ...
washingtonindependent.com - 10/27/2009
The First Afghanistan Resignation « The Washington Independent
— washingtonindependent.com — powerful story from The Washington Post : a leading State Department foreign-service officer official in Afghanistan’s Zabul... province has resigned in protest of the war, writing that he has “lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic ... (more) The First Afghanistan Resignation « The ...

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Kerry Backs Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan « The Washington Independent
washingtonindependent.com - 10/27/2009
Kerry Backs Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan « The Washington Independent
— washingtonindependent.com — Fresh from a trip last week to Afghanistan, where he scored a diplomatic coup by securing Afghan... President Hamid Karzai’s acquiescence to a runoff election , Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) urged President Obama to endorse a counterinsurgency campaign ... (more) Kerry Backs Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan ...

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Podesta: Bush Administration Spent Only One Hour On Afghanistan Report It Handed Off To Obama
thinkprogress.org - 10/25/2009
Podesta: Bush Administration Spent Only One Hour On Afghanistan Report It Handed Off To Obama
— thinkprogress.org — For weeks, former Bush administration officials have been attacking President Obama for “dithering” on whether to send... more troops to Afghanistan, with Vice President Cheney saying that “ signals of indecision out of Washington hurt ... (more) Podesta: Bush Administration Spent Only One Hour On ...

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Outside The Beltway | OTB:  Maintaining Commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan

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Maintaining Commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... Over at The Glittering Eye I muse in a related vein over the interrelationship between our military and our grand strategy. Is there an intrinsic conflict between nation-building and having the biggest, toughest military in the world? How should we be using our military and what are our interests? ...

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Rhymes With Right — ... Third place with 1 point – (T * ) – The Glittering Eye - Are We Promoting Our Grand Strategy? Third place with 1 point – (T * ) – Mere Rhetoric - ...

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