theglobeandmail.com - 12/6/2008
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Canadian soldiers patrol the streets of Kandahar recently. Canadian soldiers patrol the streets of Kandahar recently. (AP/Allauddin Khan)
nytimes.com - 12/7/2008
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nytimes.com —
Barack Obama said that the economy seems likely
to get worse before it gets better, but pledged...
to pursue a recovery plan “equal to the task ahead.” >
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Obama Warns of Further Economic Pain
buffalonews.com - 12/6/2008
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buffalonews.com —
WASHINGTON — The military is beginning a big
building effort in Afghanistan to house the roughly 20,000...
additional troops who are expected to begin pouring in early next year, a top military officer said Friday. Maj. Gen. Michael Tucker, deputy ...
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Building effort under way to house more U. S. troops in ...
pajamasmedia.com - 12/14/2008
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pajamasmedia.com —
As the Iraq conflict winds down, the war
in Afghanistan is, in many ways, just getting started....
PJM presents the second in a series of exclusive reports from Michael Yon — our 21st-century "Ernie Pyle." (Read part one here.)
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On the Front Lines in Afghanistan, Part Two
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The War In Afghanistan Has Lost Its Authority
Newshoggers.com —
... But all may be missing an important point - the war in Afghanistan should be over, and the mandate for a US and allied presence there has lost its rationale. Doug Saunders, writing in Canada's Globe and Mail on Friday, noted that the Western presence in Afghanistan is authorised under Chapter VII of the UN Charter: ...
The War In Afghanistan Has Lost Its Authority
Crooks and Liars —
... But all may be missing an important point - the war in Afghanistan should be over, and the mandate for a US and allied presence there has lost its rationale. Doug Saunders, writing in Canada's Globe and Mail on Friday, noted that the Western presence in Afghanistan is authorised under Chapter VII of the UN Charter: ...
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Afghanistan is NOT the Good War
thewashingtonnote.com 12/14/2008 —
I will write much more about this subject in coming days, but I am increasingly worried about the framing that America's next President and his team are applying to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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washingtonpost.com 1/11/2009 — The Associated Press Thursday, January 8, 2009; 11:58 AM KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber struck U.S. troops patrolling on foot in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least two soldiers and three civilians and wounding at least nine ...
Afghanistan: The War Grows
michaelyon-online.com 12/8/2008 — Published: 08 December 2008 Zabul Province, Afghanistan While Americans sleep tight in their beds, this time of year U.S. soldiers sit shivering through the frigid, crystal clear nights at remote outposts in places most of us have never heard of ...
Obama's Afghanistan Dilemma: "Growing Dissent" On More Troops
huffingtonpost.com 12/10/2008 — No more than one year ago, it was widely assumed that the great foreign policy challenge facing the next president would be what to do with U.S. troops in Iraq. The surge had produced a unexpected geopolitical dilemma: was the reduction of violence ...
Encouraging Debate On Afghanistan
openleft.com 12/9/2008 — An increasing number of questions, and diversity of opinions, are emerging on sending more troops to Afghanistan . Given how murky the situation is over there, this can only be taken as a good sign:
And yet, over the last few weeks, the progressive ...
We Need an Explanation on Afghanistan
thewashingtonnote.com 12/8/2008 — It is painfully clear that we are not "winning" in Afghanistan, and that we need a new strategy.
While President-elect Obama has carefully calibrated and qualified his "timetable" strategy for Iraq, he has unequivocally promised to send more ...
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 ...
In Time of War
michaelyon-online.com 11/10/2008 — 10 November 2008 The Iraq war is over. Barring the unforeseen, the darkest days are behind, though we are still losing soldiers to low-level fighting with enemies that are true “dead-enders.” Last month we lost seven Americans in combat in Iraq. ...
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