briefingroom.thehill.com - 2/20/2009
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President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he is sending two more troop brigades to Afghanistan.
Obama said in a statement that the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan "demands argent attention and swift action."
"The Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan," he said, "and al Qaeda supports the ...
whitehouse.gov - 2/18/2009
nsnetwork.org - 2/19/2009
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PRINCIPLES FOR AN AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY As the Obama
Administration begins a 60-day review of its Afghanistan strategy,...
a diverse group of progressive experts in development, counter-terrorism, regional politics and US politics came together to ...
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Principles for an Afghanistan Strategy
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 2/20/2009
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As last Friday’s Progress Report noted, and today’s
underlines, President Obama has inherited a crisis in Afghanistan....
The problems identified in the Center for American Progress’s December 2007 report still exist, and have gotten ...
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Knowing Where We Stand On Afghanistan
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Iraq War Veterans Should Demand a Voice in Foreign Policy
Pundits Blog —
... ) Yesterday morning on Fox News they were all in a huff about the addition of 17,000 troops — a de facto surge — in Afghanistan while Obama and Smokin’ Joe Biden, neither of whom have ever fired a shot in anger — railed against the Bush administration not so very long ago for just such a surge in Iraq. Worth considering, though. Those who did not serve are often compelled to wish they had in hindsight and later in life it can cause all kinds of problems. They can get a little overconfident and headstrong about warfare. See Dick Cheney. And as Nicholson Baker has pointed out ...
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More Troops for Afghanistan
attackerman.firedoglake.com 2/18/2009 — He promised to do so on the campaign trail, and now he's done it: President Barack Obama has approved a troop increase to Afghanistan. His just-released statement is below. Notice that the forces approved appears to be less than the 20,000-30,000 ...
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 ...
Troop Surge in Afghanistan Means No Progressive Consensus
dailykos.com 2/21/2009 — President Barack Obama's Tuesday announcement that the U.S. will be adding 17,000 fresh troops to those already fighting in Afghanistan upended hopes among some progressives that the 60-day policy review he announced February 10 would be completed ...
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 ...
The Cost Of A COIN War In Afghanistan
newshoggers.com 3/19/2009 — By Steve Hynd
It's apparently a taboo subject - no-one wants to talk about how much a COIN war in Afghanistan will cost or even how long it will last. Conservatives simply don't want to "lose" and don't seem to care about the costs, while ...
Get Afghanistan Right
dailykos.com 1/13/2009 — An ad hoc group of bloggers has come together for the purpose of opposing a U.S.-led escalation in Afghanistan that is slated to double the number of American troops there. Organized by Alex Thurston at The Seminal and Robert Greenwald's ...
Obama's Team Stumbling into Afghan Trap
thewashingtonnote.com 1/26/2009 —
(photo credit: Jon Taplin's Blog )
In the book, America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy , which is an April-May 2008 rolling conversation between former national security advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski 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 ...
What, I Was Serious?
windsofchange.net 1/15/2009 — I saw this the other day, and waited for it to get picked up and commented on. It wasn't, so I'll raise it here.
Here's Spencer Ackerman writing in the Washington Independent :
Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against ...
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"President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, emerging with smiles after a meeting in Harper's office and a working lunch, said this afternoon they had agreed to work closely on stimulus plans to tackle the global recession, to ...
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