nytimes.com - 3/13/2009
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If American forces leave Afghanistan, it will threaten our security and hand our most determined enemies an enormous propaganda victory — their biggest since 9/11. >
michaelyon-online.com - 3/10/2009
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The Pathetic Afghan Army & Will Obama Fumble
Iraq? 11 March 2009 The disconnect between reporting and...
reality on Iraq was dramatic during 2005. Media stories about the incompetence and hopelessness of the Iraqi army and police were like the soup ...
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The Pathetic Afghan Army & Will Obama Fumble Iraq?
usatoday.com - 3/17/2009
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American support for the war in Afghanistan has
ebbed to a new low, as attacks on U.S....
troops and their allies have hit record levels and commanders are pleading for reinforcements, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.
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USA TODAY - Afghan war hits peak of disfavor
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Afghanistan Times
Swampland —
... 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 the Bootists want to "surge" there (but not very much). For the moment, I disagree with both. ...
NSN Daily Update 3/13/09
democracyarsenal.org —
... Max Boot, Frederick Kagan, and Kimberly Kagan look at how to “surge” in Afghanistan and win decisively. ...
Afghanistan: Could We, Should We Leave?
The Moderate Voice —
... In the New York Times today, as the cheerleaders for the Surge argue for an encore, Leslie Gelb makes the opening argument in the case for “ ...
Surgin' Again
The Belgravia Dispatch —
... will make things more interesting in those pages going forward) to an op-ed titled, I kid you not, "How to Surge the Taliban". How one "surges" Pashtun Afghans of the hard Islamist variety I'm not quite sure (do you mount them and ride herd, or some such, say something akin to a cattle surge?) but I nonetheless tried in good faith to decipher the "plan": ...
The Two Faces of Kimberly Kagan
Antiwar.com Original —
... Grant and Sherman, Napoleon and Davout, Marlborough and Eugene, Caesar and Labienus. Generals David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno can now be added to the list," the Kagans gushed in the 4,536-word testimonial. This kind of hagiography may appear over-the-top, but it has served its scribes well. The Kagans’ own success as courtier-scholars in the Imperial City relies on building and maintaining the successful Surge narrative. One year after "Patton" and three months after issuing " How to Surge the Taliban " for the New York Times with fellow neoconservative Max Boot, both ...
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agonist.org 1/12/2009 — The US will soon double the number of its troops in Afghanistan from about thirty thousand to sixty thousand, and several other NATO countries will also up their troop levels. The move comes with little surprise and considerable bipartisan support, ...
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:
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Coalition and Taliban forces battle throughout Afghanistan
longwarjournal.org 3/20/2009 — Scores of Taliban fighters and several Afghan officials were killed in fighting throughout Afghanistan. The violence marks the opening of the spring fighting season in Afghanistan as the Coalition and the Taliban surge forces for what is expected to ...
The Taliban's surge commander was Gitmo detainee
longwarjournal.org 3/11/2009 — A former detainee at Guantánamo Bay has become the Taliban’s chief operations officer in southern Afghanistan. The former detainee, Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, was captured in Afghanistan in December of 2001 and transferred to Afghanistan six years later ...
Afghanistan Times
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 ...
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 ...
McCain Wakes Up To War In Afghanistan
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 2/26/2009 — Asked about Afghanistan back in November 2003, McCain stressed that Iraq was the more important effort, but that he thought that we would be able to “muddle through” in Afghanistan.
Watch it:
MCCAIN: I am concerned about it, ...
GOPers: We Like Obama's Afghan Policy -- Because It's the New 'Surge'
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 3/28/2009 — Would you be surprised to hear that Republicans are joining Democrats to praise President Obama's new plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Maybe not -- after all, Obama does want to send 4,000 new troops to Afghanistan, bringing the estimated U.S. ...
Airstrike kills Taliban commanders in southern Afghanistan
longwarjournal.org 3/18/2009 —
Click map for full view. Taliban presence, by district, in Kandahar, Uruzgan, and Helmand provinces. Information on Taliban presence obtained from open source and derived by The Long War Journal based on the presence of Taliban shadow ...
First 100 days: Afghan plans next week? —
First Read 3/13/2009
Obama may announce Afghanistan plans as early as next week. Among the goals: "getting rid of terrorist safe havens in Pakistan and adopting a regional approach to reducing the threat of terrorism and extremism in both countries." The plan is expected ...
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