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Thank you, David, for your kind introduction and more importantly for your terrific reporting over the years. David s most recent book, The Inheritance , makes the point that while President Obama took office with great promise, his predecessor left him with some very thorny problems and few ...
John Kerry's Afghan war speech; Foreshadowing Obama's decision?
John Kerry's Afghan war speech; Foreshadowing Obama's decision?
latimesblogs.latimes.com — Analysis and full text of the senator's nuanced examination of the conflict.... (more) John Kerry's Afghan war speech; Foreshadowing Obama's ...
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Senator John Kerry Finds A War With Which He Can Flirt
Open Left - Front Page — ... ," meaning he loves him some counterinsurgency, just not in the doses prescribed by Gen. McChrystal. Kerry's Monday speech to the Council on Foreign Relations shows that in sipping the COIN Kool-Aid, he's beginning to display the worst habits of internal contradiction prevalent among the counterinsurgency glitterati. ...

John Kerry Finds a War with Which He Can Flirt
Firedoglake — ... ,” meaning he loves him some counterinsurgency, just not in the doses prescribed by Gen. McChrystal. Kerry’s Monday speech to the Council on Foreign Relations shows that in sipping the COIN Kool-Aid, he’s beginning to display the worst habits of internal contradiction prevalent among the counterinsurgency glitterati. ...

NY Times: CIA Put President Karzai's Drug-Smuggling Brother on Its Tab
Daily Kos — ... responsible for setting up dozens of so-called ghost polling stations — existing only on paper — that were used to manufacture tens of thousands of phony ballots. "The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone," General Flynn said. The Times cited officials as saying that U.S. efforts against other Afghan drug lords may have strengthened Karzai's influence over the drug trade. In a speech Monday, Sen. John Kerry said: If effective governance is to take hold—and I believe our mission ...

Derrick Crowe: Senator Kerry Finds A War With Which He Can Flirt
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... ," meaning he loves him some counterinsurgency, just not in the doses prescribed by Gen. McChrystal. Kerry's Monday speech to the Council on Foreign Relations shows that in sipping the COIN Kool-Aid, he's beginning to display the worst habits of internal contradiction prevalent among the counterinsurgency glitterati. ...

Rule Of Law, Local Ownership Essential For Security Assistance
Wonk Room — ... calls for expanding the Afghan National Army to 240,000 and the Afghan National Police to 160,000. Influential lawmakers like Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and ...

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