corner.nationalreview.com - 1/30/2009
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The Democrats, and President Obama in particular, have backed themselves into a corner in Afghanistan. For several years the Afghan effort served as the rhetorical counterpoint to the war in Iraq; since they did not want to support "Bush's War," it gave them a convenient way to appear tough on ...
newsweek.com - 2/1/2009
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newsweek.com —
About a year ago, Charlie Rose, the nighttime
talk-show host, was interviewing Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the
military adviser at the White House coordinating efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. "We have never been beaten tactically in a fire fight in ...
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Could Afghanistan Be Obama's Vietnam? | Newsweek ...
newsweek.com - 2/1/2009
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newsweek.com —
In May 2006 a unit of American soldiers
in Afghanistan 's Uruzgan valley were engulfed in a
ferocious fire fight with the Taliban . Only after six hours, and supporting airstrikes, could they extricate themselves from the valley. But what was most ...
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Zakaria: How to Salvage Afghanistan | Newsweek ...
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There Are No Realists in Afghanistan
Weekly Standard Blog —
Joe Lieberman's speech on Afghanistan receives praise from the Huffington Post and the Corner. You can read the speech, delivered at the Brookings Institution yesterday, here. Perhaps most striking about the current debate over Afghanistan, aside from utterly predictable efforts on the far left to stymie an escalation even in this "good war," is the continuity from the Bush administration to the Obama administration. There is no serious dispute over what the objective in Afghanistan must be: the elimination of al Qaeda and other irreconcilables ...
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attackerman.firedoglake.com 2/18/2009 — He promised to do so on the campaign trail, and now he's done it: President Barack Obama has approved a troop increase to Afghanistan. His just-released statement is below. Notice that the forces approved appears to be less than the 20,000-30,000 ...
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agonist.org 1/14/2009 — Memo to President-Elect Obama:
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blogs.abcnews.com 1/28/2009 — ABC's Luis E. Martinez reports: When President Obama visits the Pentagon tomorrow he will be presented with plans that by week's end could see as many as 17,000 additional US troops receiving their deployment orders for Afghanistan. Testifying on ...
Kissinger: COIN Won’t Work/McCain: CT Won’t Work
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U.S. Army suicides hit new high for 2008 —
Reuters: Politics 1/29/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Suicides in the U.S. Army jumped 11 percent to a all-time high in 2008, as the stress of ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan took a greater toll on U.S. soldiers, the armed service said Thursday.
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