whitehouse.gov - 2/18/2009
nsnetwork.org - 2/19/2009
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nsnetwork.org —
PRINCIPLES FOR AN AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY As the Obama
Administration begins a 60-day review of its Afghanistan strategy,
a diverse group of progressive experts in development, counter-terrorism, regional politics and US politics came together to ...
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Principles for an Afghanistan Strategy
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 2/20/2009
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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org —
As last Friday’s Progress Report noted, and today’s
underlines, President Obama has inherited a crisis in Afghanistan.
The problems identified in the Center for American Progress’s December 2007 report still exist, and have gotten ...
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Knowing Where We Stand On Afghanistan
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Obama Sending More Troops to Afghanistan, But It's Mission not Numbers that Counts
David Corn —
... With a four-paragraph statement released on Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama announced that he had approved a request from Defense Secretary Bob Gates to deploy another 17,000 US troops to Afghanistan this spring and summer. He said: ...
Defining victory downwards in Afghanistan? Not yet.
The Moderate Voice —
... Barack Obama made a significant decision and chose to send an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan. I won’t call it a hard decision, but it was certainly the right one, so the President deserves credit for that. ...
Enduring Blunder
Antiwar.com Original —
... have "decimated" al-Qaeda's leadership and that they now foresee a "complete al-Qaeda defeat" in the region. That's a remarkable conclusion considering that the CIA's best sources of intelligence on Pakistan are Pakistani intelligence officials. It doesn't take a bloodhound to sniff two separate agendas here. Despite knowing nothing about ourselves and even less about the enemy Sun Tzu's recipe for disaster la king Obama is going ahead with the Bananastan escalation his feckless generals and defense secretary have recommended . Obama says "the situation in Afghanistan ...
Yes, We Have No Bananastan
At-Largely —
... Posted by Jeff Huber President Barack Obama’s March 27 announcement of a “new strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan” makes it official. He has no clue what he’s doing in the Middle East. Unless, of course, he’s leading us further down the road to ruin on purpose, in which case he knows exactly what he’s doing and is making an excellent job of it. On February 17 , Obama announced he would send ...
A Brief Timeline of President Obama’s Benchmark Statements on the “War of Necessity”
Flopping Aces —
... ‘mission accomplished’ would be that we had stabilized Afghanistan, that the Afghan people are experiencing rising standards of living, that we have made sure that we are disabling al-Qaeda and the Taliban so that they can longer attack Afghanistan, they can no longer engage in attacks against targets of Pakistan, and they can’t target the United States or its allies.” Logan “Losing is not an option?” Obama: “Losing is not an option when it comes to al-Qaeda. And it never has been. February 17, 2009 : As we develop our new strategic goals, we will do so in concert with our ...
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briefingroom.thehill.com 2/20/2009 — President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he is sending two more troop brigades to Afghanistan.
Obama said in a statement that the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan "demands argent attention and swift action."
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What, I Was Serious?
windsofchange.net 1/15/2009 — I saw this the other day, and waited for it to get picked up and commented on. It wasn't, so I'll raise it here.
Here's Spencer Ackerman writing in the Washington Independent :
Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against ...
The Cost Of A COIN War In Afghanistan
newshoggers.com 3/19/2009 — By Steve Hynd
It's apparently a taboo subject - no-one wants to talk about how much a COIN war in Afghanistan will cost or even how long it will last. Conservatives simply don't want to "lose" and don't seem to care about the costs, while ...
The New Strategy for Afghanistan
outsidethebeltway.com 2/9/2009 — The Obama Administration has outlined a new strategy for Afghanistan:
The Obama administration today today outlined a new campaign strategy for the war in Afghanistan, scaling back the ambitions of George Bush in a shift which senior officials and ...
Getting Afghanistan Right
agonist.org 1/14/2009 — Memo to President-Elect Obama:
"Now it is folly to go against men who could not be kept under even if conquered, while failure would leave us in a very different position from that which we occupied before the enterprise."
Thucydides, VI, 11. ...
GetAfghanistanRight.com
washingtonindependent.com 1/12/2009 — 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 ...
More thousands of missing US weapons - this time in Afghanistan
newshoggers.com 2/16/2009 — By Cernig
ONE THIRD of all the weapons procured for the Afghan security forces are missing and can be presumed sold onto the black market. Worth roughly $40 million at wholesale cost (and weighing in excess of 200 tons) to the Pentagon, would ...
First 100 Days: Troops to Afghanistan —
First Read 2/18/2009
“Barack Obama, whose presidential ambitions were launched by his opposition to one war, moved Tuesday to expand the U.S. deployment in another,” USA Today writes. “In his first such action as president, Obama ordered an additional 17,000 combat ...
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