salon.com - 1/26/2009
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Friday's airstrikes are evidence Obama will take the hard line he promised in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But he should remember what happened to another president who inherited a war.
timesonline.co.uk - 1/23/2009
nybooks.com - 1/22/2009
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nybooks.com —
Volume 56, Number 2 · February 12, 2009
Pakistan in Peril By William Dalrymple Descent into Chaos:...
The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid Viking, 484 pp., $27.95 Lahore, ...
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Pakistan in Peril - The New York Review of Books
longwarjournal.org - 1/25/2009
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Mullah Fazlullah. Click image to view the slideshow
of the Taliban Leadership in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The...
leader of the Taliban-controlled district of Swat in Pakistan's northwest has ordered more than 50 political and ...
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Swat Taliban summon government officials to sharia courts
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Cole in Salon: Obama's Vietnam?
Informed Comment —
... My column is out in Salon.com: "Obama's Vietnam? Friday's airstrikes are evidence Obama will take the hard line he promised in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But he should remember what happened to another president who inherited a war. ...
Wherein Juan Cole Channels Wingnuts
Taylor Marsh —
... Oh, for criminy sakes! President Obama has been in office less than one week,
but a notable Middle East scholar, someone very respected, is asking whether Obama
delivering on his campaign rhetoric regarding Pakistan (see drone strike last
week), well, could it signal "Obama’s
Vietnam?" Talk about your wingnut New Years gift, presented on the wings of hyperbole. ...
Cole/ Marsh Debate on Obama's Bombing of Pakistan
Informed Comment —
My Democratic Party colleague Taylor Marsh took exception to my Salon piece on Obama's decision to bomb Pakistan during his first week in office. I always welcome vigorous debate and believe that arguing substance in public is essential to our attaining the ideals of a democratic republic. I value Taylor Marsh's perspective and we have often agreed in the past, when public opinion in this country was against us. I offer the following in the way of an an honest disagreement, and with full respect for my debating partner. That said, I really must ...
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Wherein Juan Cole Channels Wingnuts
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Oh, for criminy sakes! President Obama has been in office less than one week,
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The Associated Press: Mullen: Afghanistan is no Vietnam
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Barack Obama, meet Lyndon Johnson
salon.com 1/28/2009 — Jan. 26, 2009 | On Friday, President Barack Obama ordered an Air Force drone to bomb two separate Pakistani villages, killing what Pakistani officials said were 22 individuals, including between four and seven foreign fighters . Many of Obama's ...
The Human Element: When Gadgetry Becomes Strategy
worldaffairsjournal.org 1/14/2009 — Wrong, terribly wrong T he wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the political debates concerning the nature and scope of U.S. involvement in those countries, have resurrected the “lessons” of Vietnam once again. Far from having kicked the “Vietnam ...
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Inventing Vietnam - Cambridge University Press
cambridge.org 2/19/2009 — This book considers the Vietnam war in light of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam, concluding that the war was a direct result of failed state-building efforts. This U.S. nation building project began in the mid-1950s with the ambitious goal of creating ...
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openleft.com 4/7/2009 — This is republished from the April 2 edition of Random Lengths News .
Afghanistan: Obama's Vietnam?
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By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
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Pakistan welcomes appointment of U.S. envoy —
Reuters: Politics 1/23/2009
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan welcomed on Friday the appointment of Richard Holbrooke as a special U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan while analysts said he would have to confront Pakistan-India tension if his aim was regional peace.
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Wash Post Federal Page 1/29/2009
Loop Fans are wondering what happens to all those dazzling gifts that George W. Bush received from foreign leaders? We did a partial listing in Monday's column that included the $852 fishing rod from Australia's John Howard , the $4,500 electric harp ...
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