democracyarsenal.org - 1/16/2009
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Pat has a great post up on the importance of having a serious and thoughtful debate about troop increases in Afghanistan and the new blog Get Afghanistan Right . I don't disagree that there needs to be a serious discussion of the issues before a large number of troops are deployed into ...
worldaffairsjournal.org - 1/14/2009
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worldaffairsjournal.org —
Wrong, terribly wrong T he wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq, and the political debates concerning the nature
and scope of U.S. involvement in those countries, have resurrected the “lessons” of Vietnam once again. Far from having kicked the “Vietnam ...
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The Human Element: When Gadgetry Becomes Strategy
dawn.com - 1/14/2009
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dawn.com —
Pakistan, Afghanistan will be Obama's priority: Hillary By
Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Jan 13: US Secretary of State-designate
Hillary Rodham Clinton told her confirmation hearing on Tuesday that fighting terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan would be ...
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Pakistan, Afghanistan will be Obama
news.yahoo.com - 1/18/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
KABUL, Afghanistan U.S. Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton
's use of the term "narco state" to describe
Afghanistan in a recent Senate testimony has caught the attention of her Afghan counterpart. Foreign Ministry Rangin Dadfar Spanta said ...
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Afghan foreign minister unhappy with Clinton - Yahoo! News
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Is Afghanistan Worth The Fight?
Taylor Marsh —
... are two main talking points used against increasing U.S. troop levels, though John Kerry did bring up the Vietnam syndrome during HRC’s confirmation hearing. One is
obvious and it is what has been wrought in Iraq. Second is the constant refrain
from people using the Soviet embarrassment in Afghanistan as prologue and projection. Neither of these reasons work, especially the first, considering
Iraq is so totally different and it was completely botched from the start. Ilan
Goldenberg of Democracy Arsenal takes it on: ...
We're From the US Government, and We're Here to Help
Obsidian Wings —
... and planning than he suggests. It’s definitely wise to continually revisit our notions of what constitutes a haven, and whether that haven is important for terrorist operations. But so far those investigations always seem to return to the reality that several major attacks or attempted attacks over the last few years are linked back to either Afghanistan or northwest Pakistan (See the recent discussion of Andrew Exum’s article on virtual havens). As Ilan [Goldenberg] noted a few months ago: ...
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swamppolitics.com 1/15/2009 — by Frank James
President-elect Barack Obama sat down with Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, to debrief them on their just-ended official trip to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
In remarks in ...
Get Afghanistan Right!
getafghanistanright.com 1/12/2009 — 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 ...
Afghanistan Times
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 ...
Obama Goes To War
swampland.blogs.time.com 3/27/2009 — As Obama gave his speech laying out a new strategy for Afghanistan Friday, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley posted on Twitter, " Listning Prez on FOX anounce his Afhgan stategy Now it bcomes Obama War Not Bush war any longer." Indeed. In addition to laying ...
President Obama's Afghanistan Speech
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. ...
Kilcullen And A Pony
newshoggers.com 11/16/2008 — By Cernig
There's very interesting interview today with counterinsurgency guru David Kilcullen in the New Yorker.
My take - he says there's less than a year before Afghanistan is irretreivable, that Pakistan is the true central front and that ...
Terrorism Matters in Afghanistan and Pakistan
democracyarsenal.org 4/9/2009 —
Disagreeing with Steve Walt is generally not advisable, because A) he's generally right in the first place, and B) he can turn your best arguments into confetti, but I am going to go ahead and take issue with his post questioning the ...
Analysis: US outlines new Afghanistan strategy
longwarjournal.org 3/27/2009 — The long-awaited new US strategy for Afghanistan was released this morning. In a press conference, President Barack Obama outlined the US goals in the region and the plan to stabilize Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.
The goal, Obama said, is ...
Inquiry Into Interrogations Unlikely —
Wash Post Federal Page 1/16/2009
President-elect Barack Obama has privately signaled to top U.S. intelligence officials that he has no plans to launch a legal inquiry into the CIA's past use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, agency director Michael V. Hayden ...
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