msnbc.msn.com - 12/12/2008
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KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. and Afghan forces attacked a remote village in a mountainous region of northeastern Afghanistan following reports that an infamous insurgent leader was in the area, a governor said Monday. At least 16 people were killed. Gov. Tamim Nuristani said Afghan soldiers told ...
tnr.com - 12/11/2008
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tnr.com —
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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Obama vs. Osama
whitehouse.gov - 12/15/2008
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whitehouse.gov —
President Bush on Monday said, "I told the
President that you can count on the United States...
-- just like you've been able to count on this administration, you'll be able to count on the next administration, as well. It's in our interest that ...
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President Bush Participates in Press Availability with ...
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10 Silver Stars For Green Berets
Pirate's Cove —
... A harrowing, nearly seven-hour battle unfolded on that mountainside in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province on April 6, as Walton, his team and a few dozen Afghan commandos they had trained took fire from all directions. Outnumbered, the Green Berets fought on even after half of them were wounded — four critically — and managed to subdue an estimated 150 to 200 insurgents, according to interviews with several team members and official citations. ...
10 Silver Stars For Green Berets
Stop The ACLU —
... 12-man Special Forces team scrambled up the steep mountainside toward its target — an insurgent stronghold in northeast Afghanistan.“Our plan,” Capt. Kyle M. Walton recalled in an interview, “was to fight downhill.” But as the soldiers maneuvered toward a cluster of thick-walled mud buildings constructed layer upon layer about 1,000 feet farther up the mountain, insurgents quickly manned fighting positions, readying a barrage of fire for the exposed Green Berets. A harrowing, nearly seven-hour battle unfolded on that mountainside in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province on April ...
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washingtonpost.com 1/11/2009 — The Associated Press Thursday, January 8, 2009; 11:58 AM KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber struck U.S. troops patrolling on foot in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least two soldiers and three civilians and wounding at least nine ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
What, I Was Serious?
windsofchange.net 1/15/2009 — I saw this the other day, and waited for it to get picked up and commented on. It wasn't, so I'll raise it here.
Here's Spencer Ackerman writing in the Washington Independent :
Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against ...
GetAfghanistanRight.com
washingtonindependent.com 1/12/2009 — Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the ...
Afghan Police Update: February 2009
longwarjournal.org 2/26/2009 —
Afghanistan Regional Commands and Provincial Reconstruction Teams.
The Afghan National Police continues to lag behind the Afghan National Army in its readiness to take on its duties without outside help. Most Afghan police ...
Afghanistan: "The opposite of everything we consider to be democracy"
newshoggers.com 12/23/2008 — By Cernig
Sarah Chayes went to Afghanistan to report for National Public Radio just a few weeks after 9/11, then stayed to become one of the few Westerners running a business there. In a recent op-ed for the Washington Post she wrote that the big ...
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