weeklystandard.com - 2/25/2009
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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 as by far the most dangerous threat to their ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 2/26/2009
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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org —
Asked about Afghanistan back in November 2003, McCain
stressed that Iraq was the more important effort, but...
that he thought that we would be able to “muddle through” in Afghanistan. Watch it: MCCAIN: I am concerned about it, ...
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McCain Wakes Up To War In Afghanistan
guardian.co.uk - 2/28/2009
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Good morning Marines. Good morning Camp Lejeune. Good
morning Jacksonville. Thank you for that outstanding welcome. I...
want to thank Lieutenant General Hejlik for hosting me here today. I also want to acknowledge all of our soldiers, sailors, airmen ...
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In full: Barack Obama's address calling an end to the ...
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McCain Wakes Up To War In Afghanistan
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... through” in Afghanistan.
Watch it:
MCCAIN: I am concerned about it, but I’m not as concerned as I am about Iraq today — obviously, or I’d be talking about Afghanistan — but I believe that if Karzai can make the progress that he is making, that in the long term we may muddle through in Afghanistan.
Today, after he delivered a speech to the American Enterprise Institute on Afghanistan, I had an opportunity to ask ...
McCain and Kissinger on Afghanistan
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... John McCain and Henry Kissinger have weighed in on Afghanistan in the past 48 hours--and both have a good grasp of the problems we're facing there, but their solutions diverge, at least in emphasis, and these nuanced disagreements illuminate the mind-boggling difficulties we're facing in the Af/Pak region.
McCain's speech at the American Enterprise Institute is far more detailed than Kissinger's op-ed in the Washington Post today, and it shows a better understanding of the problems on the ground. For example, McCain understands that the Afghan national army ...
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