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michaeltotten.com - 12/15/2008

On the Hunt in Baghdad

— michaeltotten.com — by Michael J. Totten BAGHDAD -- “If your men conduct any raids,” I said to Captain Todd Looney at Combat Outpost Ford on the outskirts of Sadr City, Baghdad, “I want to go.” “We might have something come up,” he said. “If so, I'll get you out ... (more) On the Hunt in Baghdad

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huffingtonpost.com - 12/14/2008

Bush Visits Iraq For Final Time

— huffingtonpost.com — BAGHDAD — President George W. Bush on Sunday made a farewell visit to Iraq, a place that defines his presidency, just 37 days before he hands the war off to a successor who has pledged to end it. Air Force One, Bush's distinctive powder ... (more) Bush Visits Iraq For Final Time

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nytimes.com - 12/14/2008

Bush Arrives in Iraq for a Final Visit

— nytimes.com — BAGHDAD — President Bush flew to Iraq on Sunday, a final trip to highlight the recently completed security agreement between Iraq and the United States. Air Force One arrived in Baghdad at 4 p.m. after a 10-and-a-half-hour overnight flight from ... (more) Bush Arrives in Iraq for a Final Visit

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Good War, Bad War
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — By Patrick Appel From Michael Crowley's article on Afghanistan: For the left in the Bush era, America's two wars have long been divided into the good and the bad. Iraq was the moral and strategic catastrophe, while Afghanistan--home base for the September 11 attacks--was a righteous fight. This dichotomy was especially appealing to liberals because it allowed them to pair their call for withdrawal from Iraq with a call for escalation in Afghanistan. Leaving Iraq wasn't about retreating; it was about bolstering another front, one where our true strategic interests lie. The left could meet ...

The quagmire next time
Ben Smith's Blog — In the primary, Democrats talked themselves into a consensus on Afghanistan: That was the "good war," which President Bush had neglected in favor of the bad war, Iraq. The argument has obvious political appeal: You criticize Iraq while talking tough and immunizing yourself against allegations that you're the "surrender" party. But now that Obama has won, there's a wave of concern running through the party about what exactly he's committed to in that country. A few articles in the last couple of days crystallize that sense, most of all Michael Crowley's TNR piece on the subject: The challenge of exiting Iraq was supposed to be the ...

Afghanistan/Pakistan - Where's The Detail?
Newshoggers.com — ... By Cernig Kevin Drum notes counter-terror expert John Nagl talking to TNR's Michael Crowley about what's needed in Afghanistan: Winning in Afghanistan, he realized, would take more than "a little tweak," as he put it to me from back in Washington a few weeks later, when he was still shaking off the gritty "Kabul crud" that afflicts traveler's lungs. It would take time, money, and blood. "It's a doubling of the U.S. commitment," Nagl said. "It's a doubling of the Afghan army, maybe a tripling. It's going to ...

Hullabaloo — ... Meanwhile, the commanders whose job it is to know these things understand what the commitment would have to be to even attempt what many consider to be a thankless and hopeless counterinsurgency mission. ...