thenation.com - 10/22/2009
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Richard Holbrooke, America's special envoy to South Asia, maintains that if the Taliban succeed in Afghanistan, "without any shadow of a doubt, Al Qaeda would move back into Afghanistan, set up a larger presence, recruit more people and pursue its objectives against the United States even more ...
taylormarsh.com - 10/30/2009
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This post has been edited and updated with
reporting from the event. The event today, “Afghanistan: Basic...
Questions – Strategic Choices,” was organized by the Rand Corp., with Steve Clemons of NAF. As backdrop, ...
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Afghanistan in the Caucus Room: Levin Slams Cheney
nytimes.com - 10/30/2009
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A man who confessed to trying to aid
Al Qaeda in the United States was sentenced by...
a federal judge Thursday to more than eight years in prison. Under a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, the man, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri , had faced 15 years in ...
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Agent for Al Qaeda Is Sentenced to Prison
mudvillegazette.com - 10/28/2009
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By the looks of it, this NY Times
story was going to tell the whole truth :...
The Great American Arm-Twist in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan -- By the looks of it, the ceremony that unfolded last week inside the Presidential Palace here was marking a joyous, even triumphant, occasion. ...
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The Women of Afghanistan
The Nation: Top Stories —
Ann Jones Women belong at the center of the debate over the war, not on the margins.
John Mueller: 'Safe Haven' Myth
Selig S. Harrison: The Ethnic Split Priya Satia: Attack of the Drones
Manan Ahmed: Pakistan Paranoia Editors: Obama's Fateful Choice
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The Cost of War
The Nation: Top Stories —
Stephen M. Walt Staying in Afghanistan will cost many more American soldiers' lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Is it worth it?
John Mueller: 'Safe Haven' Myth
Selig S. Harrison: The Ethnic Split Priya Satia: Attack of the Drones
Manan Ahmed: Pakistan Paranoia Editors: Obama's Fateful Choice
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How to Get Out
The Nation: Top Stories —
Robert Dreyfuss Elements of a responsible withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan.
John Mueller: 'Safe Haven' Myth
Selig S. Harrison: The Ethnic Split Priya Satia: Attack of the Drones
Manan Ahmed: Pakistan Paranoia Editors: Obama's Fateful Choice
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Too Big to Fail?
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... somehow become convinced that everything – the fate of our country, if not the planet itself – is at stake? In Vietnam, this was expressed in the absurd “domino theory”: if Vietnam fell, Thailand, Burma, India, and finally California would follow like so many toppling dominos. Now, Afghanistan has become the First Domino of our era, and the rest of the falling dominos in the 21st century are, of course, the terrorist attacks to come, once an emboldened al-Qaeda has its “ safe haven ” and its triumph in the backlands of that country. In other words, first Afghanistan, then ...
Too Big to Fail? Why All the President's Afghan Options Are Bad Ones
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... Now, Afghanistan has become the First Domino of our era, and the rest of the falling dominos in the twenty-first century are, of course, the terrorist attacks to come, once an emboldened al-Qaeda has its "safe haven" and its triumph in the backlands of that country. In other words, first Afghanistan, then Pakistan, then a mushroom cloud over an American city. In both the Vietnam era and today, Washington has also been mesmerized by that supposedly key currency of international stature, "credibility." To employ a strategy of "less," to begin to cut our losses and pull out of ...
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Liberals’ new obsession: Afghanistan
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In Afghanistan, the US is heading towards futility if not defeat mainly because no policy maker in Washington or its allied European ...
Hey, Joe, Where You Going With That Gun In Your Hand? Pt. II
obsidianwings.blogs.com 10/19/2009 — Guest post by Gary Farber.
[ Eric Martin: My friend Gary is going to be pitching in for a couple of days as I adjust to the enhanced parenting techniques that my son is submitting me too. And yes, sleep deprivation is torture. ]
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I Think Quoting Obama Is Unfair
justoneminute.typepad.com 10/6/2009 — The deplorable right wing conspiracy is at it again, this time quoting Obama himself to make the case for a continued presence in Afghanistan. The WSJ reports that a key part of the debate about whether to commit more troops...
Petraeus Admits There's No Al Qaeda In Afghanistan Anymore - War Over
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"Mission creep" is when you keep inventing new reasons for the mission continuing long after the original objective has been accomplished. Fox News reported General David Petraeus' statement that the oginial UN-mandated mission for ...
Frank Rich--the Patton of the Panjshir -- By: Rich Lowry
corner.nationalreview.com 9/29/2009 —
Over the weekend, I wrote this post on Frank Rich suddenly discovering that al Qaeda is not in Afghanistan--just in time to dump the war before it becomes a liability to President Obama. Just for kicks, here are some more greatest hits of Frank ...
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