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Senior U.S. Official Resigns Over Strategy in Afghanistan
abcnews.go.com - 10/27/2009
Senior U.S. Official Resigns Over Strategy in Afghanistan
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Matthew Hoh, a former marine, says Afghanistan is not worth U.S. lives.
washingtonpost.com - 10/27/2009
U.S. official resigns over Afghan war
— washingtonpost.com — Foreign Service officer and former Marine captain says he no longer knows why his nation is fighting... By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 27, 2009 When Matthew Hoh joined the Foreign Service early this year, he was exactly ... (more) U.S. official resigns over Afghan war

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washingtonindependent.com - 10/27/2009
The First Afghanistan Resignation « The Washington Independent
— washingtonindependent.com — powerful story from The Washington Post : a leading State Department foreign-service officer official in Afghanistan’s Zabul... province has resigned in protest of the war, writing that he has “lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic ... (more) The First Afghanistan Resignation « The ...

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Kerry Backs Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan « The Washington Independent
washingtonindependent.com - 10/27/2009
Kerry Backs Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan « The Washington Independent
— 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 ... (more) Kerry Backs Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan ...

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JustOneMinute:  A Troubling Resignation

The Note:  Sen. Jack Reed: ‘Emerging Consensus' to Deploy More Training Troops in Afghanistan

Commondreams.org Views:  AfPak-Iraq: Wrong War, Wrong Thinking

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A Troubling Resignation
JustOneMinute — ... non-Pashtun soldiers and police, provide an occupation force against which the insurgency is justified." If the US has ambled on stage as a performer in a five hundred year effort by Kabul to impose its will on recalcitrant rural Afghanistan, we might be well advised to amble off again, or at least, scale back our objectives.  On the other hand, Gen. McChrystal is a smart guy with relevant experience and he has reached an opposite conclusion. And what impact will Hoh have?  I think ABC News is awry here: Hoh's resignation comes as a blow to the Obama administration, which ...

Sen. Jack Reed: ‘Emerging Consensus' to Deploy More Training Troops in Afghanistan
The Note — ... Reed also said that Matthew Hoh's resignation in protest over Afghanistan policy got his attention.  ...

The Note's Must-Reads for Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The Note — ... ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, Huma Khan, and John Parkinson: “Matthew Hoh, a Senior Civilian Official in Afghanistan, Resigns Over U.S. Strategy” LINK ...

AfPak-Iraq: Wrong War, Wrong Thinking
Commondreams.org Views — ... " [16 October 2009]). Some US military and political officers on the ground are beginning to register these dynamics. Matthew Hoh , a senior US state department official and former marine who was based until recently in Zabul province, explained his ...

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