huffingtonpost.com - 11/16/2008
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By Stephen C. Rose
The situation in Afghanistan weighs more and more heavily on us. I took it up in a Huffington Post piece a while back titled Could Barack Obama Suffer The Fate of LBJ?
Many wish the war on terror to be translated from a military trap into a POLICE ACTION, something ...
pajamasmedia.com - 11/14/2008
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pajamasmedia.com —
November 14, 2008 "THE WAR IS OVER AND
WE WON:" Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and...
reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. "There's nothing going on. I'm with the 10th Mountain Division, ...
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michaelyon-online.com - 11/18/2008
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michaelyon-online.com —
By Tim Lynch Printed with permission from: http://blog.freerangeinternational.com/
Afghanistan We had to make a run to Kabul...
last Friday to take some clients to the airport and to pick up new ones. The Jalalabad to Kabul road is considered very ...
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Shakedown
smallwarsjournal.com - 11/16/2008
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smallwarsjournal.com —
How Should the U.S. Execute a Surge in
Afghanistan? by Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. Downey, Lieutenant Colonel...
Lee K. Grubbs, Commander Brian J. Malloy and Lieutenant Colonel Craig R. Wonson, Small Wars Journal How Should the U.S. Execute a Surge in ...
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How Should the U.S. Execute a Surge in Afghanistan?
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Win-Lose Situation
Jules Crittenden —
... on Afghanistan, Kilcullen was interviewed, but not very well. Hey Frontline, see above for what you missed. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the surrender camp, despair over the quagmire has predictably shifted to demands for immediate capitulation. Huffington Post: No-win situation . Either that, or, back to SWJ again: ...
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