pajamasmedia.com - 10/28/2008
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The award-winning PBS documentary series tells us Afghanistan is a problem -- but offers no solutions.
townhall.com - 10/27/2008
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When Josh Mandel got a call from the
Marines last year asking him to return voluntarily to...
Iraq, he had much more to contemplate than when he first enlisted in 2000. He had just been elected to the Ohio state legislature. Family considerations were ...
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Joel Mowbray : Iraq War vet’s service attacked in ...
tnr.com - 10/28/2008
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tnr.com —
On Sunday, U.S. helicopters accompanied by a special
forces team struck in Sukkariyeh, Syria, just over the...
border from Iraq. It was a raid with enormous implications for the war in Iraq and the broader war on terror. The target of the raid was a man ...
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Twilight Struggle
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 10/28/2008
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Robert Kagan, a leading member of John McCain’s
war cabinet , recently gave an interview to Der...
Spiegel in which he was asked about the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq : SPIEGEL: Isn’t it true that Bush, Cheney and ...
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McCain Adviser Dismisses Evidence Of Bush’s Iraq ...
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The War Briefing
Jules Crittenden —
[image] « Awwwww … The War Briefing Frontline’s latest is on tonight. You’ll find my full review at Pajamasmedia . Preview vid and press materials here . Quick take: There are things to love and things to be annoyed with in this Frontline effort, which fails to live up to its promise. The embed footage, ridgelines, villages and combat, is very good, especially since we don’t see that much of it out of Afghanistan. The quick review of conventional wisdom is OK, if you like that kind of thing. The oddly Obamist dismissal of Iraq as a distraction ...
Win-Lose Situation
Jules Crittenden —
... rounds up some reax, and notes Kilcullen will be a guest with Fareed Zakaria on CNN at 1 p.m. ET today, discussing the above. When Frontline did its recent doom/gloom-mongerfest on Afghanistan, Kilcullen was interviewed, but not very well. Hey Frontline, see above for what you missed. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the surrender camp, despair over the quagmire has predictably shifted to demands for immediate capitulation. Huffington Post: ...
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In Time of War
michaelyon-online.com 11/10/2008 — 10 November 2008 The Iraq war is over. Barring the unforeseen, the darkest days are behind, though we are still losing soldiers to low-level fighting with enemies that are true “dead-enders.” Last month we lost seven Americans in combat in Iraq. ...
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Iraq
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On the Front Lines in Afghanistan
pajamasmedia.com 12/14/2008 — The war in Afghanistan is, in many ways, just getting started. PJM presents exclusive reports from Michael Yon — our 21st century "Ernie Pyle" — who will be in the country through 2009.
McCain on Afghanistan at AEI
weeklystandard.com 2/25/2009 — Senator McCain is just now delivering a speech at AEI on the war in Afghanistan. Some highlights:
"Success is possible in Afghanistan. Afghans reject the Taliban. Just 4 percent of Afghans wish them to rule the country, and they rate the Taliban ...
Biden for Afghanistan
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/21/2008 — Senator Biden has been repeatedly criticized by Senator McCain for calling for the dismemberment of Iraq. McCain charged Biden with saying that "that Iraq had to be broken up into three different countries," and called the plan "one of the more ...
Instapundit.com -
pajamasmedia.com 11/14/2008 — November 14, 2008 "THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:" Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. "There's nothing going on. I'm with the 10th Mountain Division, ...
Afghan Quicksand Awaits Obama
pajamasmedia.com 11/10/2008 — The president-elect will face escalating violence, feckless allies, and time that's quickly running out.
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 ...
Big foreign policy agenda awaits next president —
Reuters: Politics 10/29/2008
NORFOLK, Virginia (Reuters) - The next U.S. president will face a daunting list of foreign policy challenges, from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the global financial crisis to the need to shore up the country's frayed international image.
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