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foreignpolicy.com - 30 days ago
No Insurgency Here
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Let's be honest: What Afghanistan has on its hands isn't an insurgency, it's a civil war.
Envoy urges no US troop increase
news.bbc.co.uk - 24 days ago
Envoy urges no US troop increase
— news.bbc.co.uk — The US ambassador in Kabul has written to the White House arguing against sending thousands more American... troops to Afghanistan. In a leaked cable, Karl Eikenberry expressed doubts about the competence of President Hamid Karzai's government. The ... (more) Envoy urges no US troop increase

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article.nationalreview.com - 28 days ago
The Hole at the Heart of Our Strategy -- By: Mark Steyn
— article.nationalreview.com — T hirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan,... and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either ... (more) The Hole at the Heart of Our Strategy -- By: Mark Steyn

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Plan B
mudvillegazette.com - 11/4/2009
Plan B
— mudvillegazette.com — Al Jazeera : Hamid Karzai listened to a mixture of congratulations and straight talking down the telephone... from President Obama on Monday just hours after Mr. Karzai was declared the winner of the Afghan elections by default. President Obama made clear what the United States expects.  ... (more) Plan B

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The Washington Note:  Working Beyond the Afghan Civil War

Obsidian Wings:  You Understand Less As the Pages Turn

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Working Beyond the Afghan Civil War
The Washington Note — ... also characterizes the mess in Afghanistan as a civil war in which one side is inimical to American interests. He wants to condition the support for the Karzai government on a clean-up campaign. ...

You Understand Less As the Pages Turn
Obsidian Wings — ... And yet, three years and a rather precipitous political ascent later, that same person - now President Barack Obama - is contemplating just how many more troops to add to Afghanistan's roiling civil war - that would be on top of the 21,000 additional troops already deployed by Obama. Nader Mousavizadeh ( ...

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