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Obama 'Get Afghanistan Right' Campaign Ramps Up
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Over at the Washington Independent Spencer Ackerman has some thoughtful things to say about the advent of this organization, his second point being particularly astute, given the way the rhetoric on Afghanistan evolved over the campaign season: ...

Obama 'Get Afghanistan Right' Campaign Ramps Up
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Over at the Washington Independent Spencer Ackerman has some thoughtful things to say about the advent of this organization, his second point being particularly astute, given the way the rhetoric on Afghanistan evolved over the campaign season: ...

Progressive Bloggers Launch ‘Get Afghanistan Right’ Campaign Opposing Troop Escalation
Think Progress — ... war. Watch it: Speaking about the Bush years, a senior U.S. military commander told the Post, “We have no strategic plan. We never had one.” A retired senior officer with ties to the Obama team added, “One of the problems is you don’t really know what kind of forces, and how many, until you know what strategy you’re going to have.” Spencer Ackerman has more on the campaign and future Afghanistan policy. ...

Halting The Militarization of Foreign Policy
Newshoggers.com — ... In an economic crisis, involved in two occupations and with the MIC's vested interests lobbying hard for an expansion in military funding its unclear just how easy that's going to be. Obama's planned military surge in Afghanistan will doubtless be the deciding factor. ...

A Little More Conversation is Key for Afghanistan
democracyarsenal.org — ... have registered their skepticism about U.S. plans for the region and a new entrant to the discussion, a group called Get Afghanistan Right, which opposes “military escalation in Afghanistan” and supports “non-military solutions to the conflict,” just launched yesterday.  Spencer looked at Get Afghanistan Right’s genesis yesterday, in a post that drew out a lot of the broader complexities which have so far characterized progressive conversations about Afghanistan.  ...

What, I Was Serious?
Winds of Change.NET — 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 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 support of Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel - went live today, with the ...