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michaelyon-online.com - 3/27/2009
Obama on Afghanistan: Disappointing
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27 March 2009 President Obama has just spoken on AfPak. I closed my eyes and listened closely to his words, coming via the BBC from the other side of the world. The President's words were disappointing. He talked about our goal to reach a force level of 134,000 Afghan soldiers and 82,000 ...
Text - President Obama’s Remarks on New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
nytimes.com - 3/27/2009
Text - President Obama’s Remarks on New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
— nytimes.com — Washington, DC March 27, 2009 Good morning. Today, I am announcing a comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan... and Pakistan. This marks the conclusion of a careful policy review that I ordered as soon as I took office. My Administration has heard ... (more) Text - President Obama’s Remarks on New Strategy ...

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commentarymagazine.com - 3/27/2009
A New Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
— commentarymagazine.com — The new Afghanistan policy that President Obama unveiled at the White House today was pretty much all... that supporters of the war effort could have asked for, and probably pretty similar to what a President McCain would have decided on. The major ... (more) A New Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

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Afghanistan Strategy to Include Meaningful Benchmarks
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 3/27/2009
Afghanistan Strategy to Include Meaningful Benchmarks
— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — I think it won’t come to news as anyone to learn that the Obama administration’s plan for... Afghanistan will include the dispatch of additional American military forces. I know not everyone is enthusiastic about that kind of escalating ... (more) Afghanistan Strategy to Include Meaningful Benchmarks

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Obama on Afghanistan
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MICHAEL YON: Obama On Afghanistan: Disappointing. “The President’s words were disappointing. He …
Instapundit — ... MICHAEL YON: Obama On Afghanistan: Disappointing. “The President’s words were disappointing. He talked about our goal to reach a force level of 134,000 Afghan soldiers and 82,000 police by 2011. This is not even in the neighborhood of being enough. Further, the increase of 21,000 U.S. troops is likely just a bucket of water on the growing bonfire. One can only expect that sometime in 2010, the President will again be forced to announce another increase in U.S. forces in Afghanistan.” Yon has been sounding the alarm on Afghanistan for over a year, so his ...

Af-Pak Reax
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Michael Yon: The President's words were disappointing.  He talked about our goal to reach a force level of 134,000 Afghan soldiers and 82,000 police by 2011.  This is not even in the neighborhood of being enough.  Further, the increase of 21,000 U.S. troops is likely just a bucket of water on the growing bonfire.  One can only expect that sometime in 2010, the President will again be forced to announce another increase in U.S. forces in Afghanistan. If there were not people like Gates and Petraeus up ...

The Plan for Afghanistan
Opinionator — ... simply go somewhere, topple a government, and western-style democracies will pop up and thrive. Afghanistan is a very different beast. And, while the president committed to helping build out infrastructure for the Afghan people, and improve the lives of the Pakistani people, he’s not letting dreams of a grand new western democracy get in the way of more practical and tighter goals - namely, fighting al Qaeda and taking the region away as a home base for the terror network, forever. Michael Yon had one of the few dissenting takes: The President’s words were disappointing. He ...

Michael Yon: Obama Disappointing On Afghanistan
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Michael Yon Online: President Obama has just spoken on AfPak. I closed my eyes and listened closely to his words, coming via the BBC from the other side of the world. The President’s words were disappointing. He talked about our goal to reach a force level of 134,000 Afghan soldiers and 82,000 police by 2011. This is not even in the neighborhood of being enough. Further, the increase of 21,000 U.S. troops is likely just a bucket of water on the growing bonfire. One can only expect that sometime in 2010, the President will again be ...

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OBAMA’S AFPAK PLAN JUST ABOUT RIGHT
Right Wing Nut House — I am not a military expert. But those that are seem generally pleased with President Obama’s new Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy. An exception to that is Michael Yon: The President’s words were disappointing. He talked about our goal to reach a force level of 134,000 Afghan soldiers and 82,000 police by 2011. This is not even in the neighborhood of being enough. Further, the increase of 21,000 U.S. troops is likely just a bucket of water on the growing bonfire. One can only expect that sometime in 2010, the President will again be forced to announce another increase in U.S. ...

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