downwithtyranny.blogspot.com - 1/12/2009
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Pretty, yes, but worth fighting a war over? In yesterday's NY Times Magazine chief Washington correspondent David Sanger paints a horrifying picture of Obama's Worst Pakistan Nightmare ; it would be more accurate to emphasize that the nightmare starts next door in Afghanistan. Pakistan is ...
getafghanistanright.com - 1/12/2009
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Get Afghanistan Right Week posted on January 12th,
2009 by Jason Rosenbaum at The Seminal As you
may have noticed or may have heard, The Seminal has a new project that is going public this week. Along with fellow bloggers, journalists, and ...
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Get Afghanistan Right!
washingtonindependent.com - 1/12/2009
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Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a
new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S.
forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the ...
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getafghanistanright.com - 1/12/2009
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The New York Times' Thom Shanker and Christopher
Drew revealed that an escalation in Afghanistan would be
enormously expensive. "It is significantly more expensive to sustain each soldier in Afghanistan than in Iraq because of Afghanistan's landlocked ...
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Daily Kos —
... . All this week - January 12-18 - bloggers across wwwLand, as well as writers in more traditional media, will be challenging the conventional wisdom - including the conventional wisdom of many progressives - regarding Afghanistan. As Howie Klein at Down with Tyranny puts it, we'll be doing this "in the hope of helping to remind Obama that he needs to get us out of Bush's wars, not dig us deeper into the hole." ...
Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats
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... Obama's Got One Thing Right About the Mess In Afghanistan-- It's Inexorably Connected To The Mess In Pakistan by Howie Klein at DownWithTyranny ...
Return of the IPB
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... . Though, I always never understood why people are drawn to things like 24 and the Sopranos . I hate that stuff. Obama's Got One Thing Right About the Mess In Afghanistan-- It's Inexorably Connected To The Mess In Pakistan SWWBO might make me sleep in the barn with Buffy the Coyote Slayer next time I go Serfing over ...
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swampland.blogs.time.com 3/13/2009 — There are dueling op-eds about Afghanistan policy in the New York Times today, by Les Gelb and by Max Boot and the Kagan Family Singers . The headlines are more extreme than the pieces: Gelb wants to withdraw from Afghanistan (but not really) and ...
Afghanistan and Pakistan take center stage in 2009
csmonitor.com 1/11/2009 — Under Obama, the US may send 20,000 more troops and encourage talks with the Taliban in an effort to reclaim the upper hand in Afghanistan. By Anand Gopal | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the January 2, 2009 edition Kabul, ...
The Difference Between Afghanistan and Iraq
democracyarsenal.org 1/16/2009 — Pat has a great post up on the importance of having a serious and thoughtful debate about troop increases in Afghanistan and the new blog Get Afghanistan Right . I don't disagree that there needs to be a serious discussion of the issues before ...
Analysis: US outlines new Afghanistan strategy
longwarjournal.org 3/27/2009 — The long-awaited new US strategy for Afghanistan was released this morning. In a press conference, President Barack Obama outlined the US goals in the region and the plan to stabilize Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.
The goal, Obama said, is ...
The Ethics of Afghanistan
openleft.com 4/10/2009 — There are many ways to answer that question. However, the primary way the question should be approached is ethical: will our continued, escalated military action in Afghanistan (and Pakistan) prevent more human suffering than it causes?
As ...
Kissinger: COIN Won’t Work/McCain: CT Won’t Work
outsidethebeltway.com 2/27/2009 — Within the last couple of days both Sen. John McCain and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have offered contrasting strategies for Afghanistan. John McCain’s plan was explained in a speech before the American Enterprise Institute and ...
Insurgency vs counterinsurgency
pajamasmedia.com 2/10/2009 — Bill Roggio describe’s al-Qaeda’s shadow army in Pakistan. They are mobilizing locals to fight for them.
The Shadow Army is active primarily in Pakistan’s tribal areas, the Northwest Frontier Province, and in eastern and southern ...
President Obama's Afghanistan Speech
openleft.com 4/6/2009 — The entire text of President Obama's Afghanistan speech is in the extended entry. I have to tun, so I don't have time to comment, but there will be more on Afghanistan later today and next week.
This is an open thread on the speech. Good morning. ...
McCain on Afghanistan at AEI
weeklystandard.com 2/25/2009 — 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 ...
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