nytimes.com - 3/27/2009
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Washington, DC March 27, 2009 Good morning. Today, I am announcing a comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. This marks the conclusion of a careful policy review that I ordered as soon as I took office. My Administration has heard from our military commanders and diplomats. We ...
motherjones.com - 3/27/2009
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motherjones.com —
This morning, after President Barack Obama unveiled his
new Afghanistan policy, three senior administration officials held an...
on-the-record (but no cameras) briefing for White House reporters. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the special envoy for ...
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Holbrooke Calls for "Complete Rethink" of Drugs in ...
blog.wired.com - 3/27/2009
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blog.wired.com —
President Obama has just laid out his new
war strategy. And he's made it clear that the...
fight is both in Afghanistan and Pakistan. So I asked Dennis McDonough, with the National Security Council: Does that mean U.S. ground forces...
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White House Won't Rule Out Troops for Pakistan War
commentarymagazine.com - 3/27/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
The new Afghanistan policy that President Obama unveiled
at the White House today was pretty much all...
that supporters of the war effort could have asked for, and probably pretty similar to what a President McCain would have decided on. The major ...
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A New Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
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Afghanistanization: But Still No Exit Plan
Daily Kos —
... After 60 days of comprehensive reviews and leaks about differences over those reviews within the administration, no surprises have emerged in the new strategy for the "good war" in Afghanistan that President Obama announced today. Not even the slightest hint about when the U.S. troop commitment might end. And not a word about the 550 or more prisoners in the infamous Bagram prison, many of them previously tortured and still held without recourse to legal or humanitarian intervention. ...
Negotiating With Enemies: Now The CW
Wonk Room —
... This part of President Obama’s Afghanistan speech deserves attention, if only because it’s one of so many things that conservatives used to condemn but now have become part of the conventional wisdom: ...
MEDIA ALERT: Kieth Olbermann's Countdown Tonight and Diane Rehm Tomorrow
The Washington Note —
... to discuss President Obama's first major overseas trip, the G-20 Economic Summit as well as the NATO Summit -- which will likely focus on the President's newly released Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy. ...
Changing the War in Afghanistan
Matthew Yglesias —
... But I’m actually less worried about the absence of metrics than I am by the continuing lack of clarity about the strategic rationale and core objectives of the mission. Moderator John Podesta zeroed in ruthlessly on this in his first question: what happened between President Obama’s March 27 declaration of a limited set of objectives –”I want the American people to understand that we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the ...
Tom Engelhardt: How to Trap a President in a Losing War: Petraeus, McChrystal, and the Surgettes
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Once in office, Obama compounded the damage by doubling down his bet on the war. In March, he introduced a "comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan" in his first significant public statement on the subject, which had expansion written all over it. He also agreed to send in 21,000 more troops (which, by the way, Petraeus ...
How to Trap a President in a Losing War
Antiwar.com Original —
... ) in the presidential campaign as proof that, despite wanting to end the war in Iraq, he was tough. (Why is it that a Democratic candidate needs a war or threat of war to trash-talk about in order to prove his "strength," when doing so is obviously a sign of weakness?) Once in office, Obama compounded the damage by doubling down his bet on the war. In March, he introduced a "comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan" in his first significant public statement on the subject, which had expansion written all over it. He also agreed to send in 21,000 more troops ...
How to Trap a President in a Losing War
Commondreams.org Views —
... ) in the presidential campaign as proof that, despite wanting to end the war in Iraq, he was tough. (Why is it that a Democratic candidate needs a war or threat of war to trash-talk about in order to prove his "strength," when doing so is obviously a sign of weakness?) Once in office, Obama compounded the damage by doubling down his bet on the war. In March, he introduced a "comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan" in his first significant public statement on the subject, which had expansion written all over it. He also agreed to send in 21,000 more troops ...
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openleft.com 4/6/2009 — The entire text of President Obama's Afghanistan speech is in the extended entry. I have to tun, so I don't have time to comment, but there will be more on Afghanistan later today and next week.
This is an open thread on the speech. Good morning. ...
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swampland.blogs.time.com 3/13/2009 — There are dueling op-eds about Afghanistan policy in the New York Times today, by Les Gelb and by Max Boot and the Kagan Family Singers . The headlines are more extreme than the pieces: Gelb wants to withdraw from Afghanistan (but not really) and ...
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pajamasmedia.com 3/29/2009 — The limits of BHO’s efforts in Pakistan were emphasized during an interview given to the press.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As he carries out a retooled strategy in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama says he will consult with Pakistan’s leaders ...
Obama’s Afghanistan Policy: The Four Questions
attackerman.firedoglake.com 3/27/2009 —
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To gaze in one's own navel: I said earlier I'd be listening to Obama's Af-Pak speech for answers to four questions, like this was Passover or something. So what about those answers?
1. Will Obama give an exit strategy, an ...
Obama: Yup, We're at War in Pakistan (Updated Again)
blog.wired.com 3/27/2009 — Perhaps you were wondering whether or not the U.S. was really at war in Pakistan, as well as Afghanistan. Well, President Obama just put those questions to rest. With everyone from Hillary Clinton to Robert Gates to General David Petraeus...
Obama unveils new Afghan-Pak policy —
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From NBC's Athena Jones The future of Afghanistan is "inextricably linked" to the future of Pakistan, President Obama argued today as he announced a sweeping new policy toward Afghanistan that will include more troops for the country and more ...
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