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huffingtonpost.com - 12/10/2008
Obama's Afghanistan Dilemma: "Growing Dissent" On More Troops
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No more than one year ago, it was widely assumed that the great foreign policy challenge facing the next president would be what to do with U.S. troops in Iraq. The surge had produced a unexpected geopolitical dilemma: was the reduction of violence enough for American forces to leave, or simply ...
The Aimless War: Why Are We in Afghanistan?
time.com - 12/11/2008
The Aimless War: Why Are We in Afghanistan?
— time.com — US soldiers situated along the Afghan-Pakistan border. (more) The Aimless War: Why Are We in Afghanistan?

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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 12/8/2008
Terror, recession, oh, workout fiend Obama's still a smoker
— latimesblogs.latimes.com — While you were watching football this morning and afternoon President-elect Barack Obama had a busy day, though... part of it was pre-recorded on Saturday. We have three news videos below, plus the transcript of Obama's Sunday morning interview on ... (more) Terror, recession, oh, workout fiend Obama's still a smoker

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tnr.com - 12/11/2008
Obama vs. Osama
— tnr.com — Around the time of the November election, John Nagl, a retired Army Colonel, took a helicopter ride... across Afghanistan. What he saw below worried him. Nagl, who is 42 with trim brown hair and academic eyeglasses, spent three years in Iraq, including ... (more) Obama vs. Osama

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Hullabaloo — ... Sam Stein at The Huffington Post reports on "growing dissent" on the idea of moving troops from the "bad war" in Iraq to the "good war" in Afghanistan. ...

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