theage.com.au - 10/24/2009
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This is the full text of an address given last Thursday by Paul McGeough, the chief correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, at a conference on the Afghanistan crisis which was organised by the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra In their ...
washingtonindependent.com - 10/27/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
Fresh from a trip last week to Afghanistan,
where he scored a diplomatic coup by securing Afghan...
President Hamid Karzai’s acquiescence to a runoff election , Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) urged President Obama to endorse a counterinsurgency campaign ...
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Kerry Backs Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan ...
newshoggers.com - 10/25/2009
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newshoggers.com —
By Steve Hynd. Paul McGeough is the chief
correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald, author of "Kill...
Khalid" and a veteran reporter of over 20 years experience, including more than 20 assignments in Afghanistan since 2001. Today, he published the ...
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McChrystal "wants a blank cheque for a jalopy on which ...
thinkprogress.org - 10/25/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
For weeks, former Bush administration officials have been
attacking President Obama for “dithering” on whether to send...
more troops to Afghanistan, with Vice President Cheney saying that “ signals of indecision out of Washington hurt ...
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Podesta: Bush Administration Spent Only One Hour On ...
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McChrystal "wants a blank cheque for a jalopy on which he offers no warranty"
Newshoggers.com —
... and a veteran reporter of over 20 years experience, including more than 20 assignments in Afghanistan since 2001. Today, he published the text of his speech to a conference on the Afghanistan crisis organised by the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. If you read one thing this weekend, read this. It's a long piece and a comprehensive demolishing of arguments for continued escalation in Afghanistan. He points out that McChrystal's surge will get there too late by McChrystal's own timeline and notes that Afghan government ...
Ellsberg: "No Success That Will Be Lasting" In Afghanistan
Newshoggers.com —
... By Steve Hynd
Daniel "Pentagon Papers" Ellsberg talks to Real News Network about Afghanistan. He says that he wrote McChrystal's assessment thirty years ago, only with the names changed; that counter-insurgency cannot succeed for a foreign occupier and that there can be no success that will survive after U.S. troops leave Afghanistan.
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Ellsberg should be followed by reading Paul McGeogh's blistering critique of McChrystal and Obama's Afghan plan, which I noted yesterday ...
John Podesta Points Out Bush Admin Only Spent 1 Hour on Afghanistan Report Before Handing Off
Crooks and Liars —
... . He says that he wrote McChrystal's assessment thirty years ago, only with the names changed; that counter-insurgency cannot succeed for a foreign occupier and that there can be no success that will survive after U.S. troops leave Afghanistan. Ellsberg should be followed by reading Paul McGeogh's blistering critique of McChrystal and Obama's Afghan plan , which I noted ...
The Graveyard of Empires
BlondeSense —
I will read foreign news websites as a matter of course in order to build up a more comprehensive view of the news than the pablum offered up by the American cable news networks. I ran across a speech given back on October 24th by Paul McGeough , a senior reporter for Australia's Sydney Morning Herald . In the speech, Mr. McGeough has some unkind but prophetic things to say about our war in Afghanistan, and the title of the article gives the basic thrust of his argument - that the Afghan insurgency has come back, more virile and more vicious than ever, and is more widespread ...
Too Late, Too Late
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... an Australian assessment of the McChrystal report. Paul McGeogh sees the report as proof that McChrystal's proposed strategy is doomed. ...
Past The Tipping Point In Afghanistan
Newshoggers.com —
... , the diplomat who resigned in protest at the invasion of Iraq - consigned to a historical footnote. But Hoh is not the only person making these arguments. Veteran Australian correspondent Paul McGeough said much the same in his excellent recent speech to the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. ...
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