washingtonindependent.com - 1/8/2009
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Video: Report From Afghan-Pakistan Border FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan — Spencer Ackerman reports from a dangerous region 12 miles from the porous Pakistan border, where Taliban insurgents cross into the country to fire rockets at the base home to 5,500 U.S. troops. Afghan ...
getafghanistanright.com - 1/12/2009
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getafghanistanright.com —
Get Afghanistan Right Week posted on January 12th,
2009 by Jason Rosenbaum at The Seminal As you...
may have noticed or may have heard, The Seminal has a new project that is going public this week. Along with fellow bloggers, journalists, and ...
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Get Afghanistan Right!
foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009
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foreignpolicy.com —
or the past five years, the fight in
Afghanistan has been hobbled by strategic drift, conflicting tactics,...
and too few troops. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, got it right when he bluntly told the U.S. Congress in 2007, ...
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Counterinsurgency Field Manual: Afghanistan Edition
washingtonindependent.com - 1/12/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a
new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S....
forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the ...
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GetAfghanistanRight.com
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What Joe The Plumber Should Know Before He Heads To A War Zone
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... , I reached out to the Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman, who's had experience being in war zones, being embedded with actual soldiers, and bringing the hopeful message of The Gaslight Anthem's new CD The '59 Sound to our troops (Joe, you should TOTALLY buy that record). ...
What Joe The Plumber Should Know Before He Heads To A War Zone
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... , I reached out to the Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman, who's had experience being in war zones, being embedded with actual soldiers, and bringing the hopeful message of The Gaslight Anthem's new CD The '59 Sound to our troops (Joe, you should TOTALLY buy that record). ...
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