firedoglake.com - 1/15/2009
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. I can’t believe I just had to type that, but when it comes to US policymakers vis-à-vis America’s war footing, the Obama Administration is looking all too ready to embrace the melodic cynicism of Pete Townsend.
Rachel Maddow began a Tuesday segment ...
worldaffairsjournal.org - 1/14/2009
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Wrong, terribly wrong T he wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq, and the political debates concerning the nature...
and scope of U.S. involvement in those countries, have resurrected the “lessons” of Vietnam once again. Far from having kicked the “Vietnam ...
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The Human Element: When Gadgetry Becomes Strategy
dawn.com - 1/14/2009
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dawn.com —
Pakistan, Afghanistan will be Obama's priority: Hillary By
Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Jan 13: US Secretary of State-designate...
Hillary Rodham Clinton told her confirmation hearing on Tuesday that fighting terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan would be ...
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Pakistan, Afghanistan will be Obama
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Obama Knows the Afghanistan Surge Won't Work
Open Left - Front Page —
... either.
It is clear that we can not afford to blindly continue George W. Bush's non-strategy:
"We have no strategic plan. We never had one," a senior U.S. military commander said of the Bush years.
But we also deserve more than a public relations strategy:
Obama's first order of business, he said, will be to "explain to the American people what the mission is" in Afghanistan.
Gregg Levine has some questions the proponents of escalation should probably take a crack at ...
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