obsidianwings.blogs.com - 12/10/2008
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by Eric Martin
Anand Gopal has an informative piece on the make-up of the "Taliban" movement in Afghanistan. The piece reinforces a few concepts that should inform our future policy vis-a-vis Afghanistan: First, the Karzai government lacks a popular mandate and, in general, ...
tnr.com - 12/11/2008
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tnr.com —
Around the time of the November election, John
Nagl, a retired Army Colonel, took a helicopter ride
across Afghanistan. What he saw below worried him. Nagl, who is 42 with trim brown hair and academic eyeglasses, spent three years in Iraq, including ...
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Obama vs. Osama
guardian.co.uk - 12/9/2008
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guardian.co.uk —
Nato countries are scrambling for alternative routes as
far afield as Belarus and Ukraine to supply their
forces in Afghanistan, which are increasingly vulnerable to a resurgent Taliban, the Guardian has learned. Four serious attacks on US and Nato ...
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Convoy attacks trigger race to open new Afghan supply lines
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Bully in a China Shop
Newshoggers.com —
... While some of these trade-offs might appear unsavory, if we continue to try to have it all in this region, we could quickly end up with much worse than nothing. This is yet one more reason to reckon with the possibility that maintaining our current posture in Afghanistan is becoming an exceedingly costly endeavor with dubious benefits. ...
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openleft.com 12/9/2008 — An increasing number of questions, and diversity of opinions, are emerging on sending more troops to Afghanistan . Given how murky the situation is over there, this can only be taken as a good sign:
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thewashingtonnote.com 12/14/2008 —
I will write much more about this subject in coming days, but I am increasingly worried about the framing that America's next President and his team are applying to Iraq and Afghanistan.
To be blunt, they have been arguing that "Iraq was the ...
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May: Meet the Taliban
article.nationalreview.com 11/27/2008 — Listen to the Taliban: We want to eradicate Britain and America, and to shatter the arrogance and tyranny of the infidels.
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