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swampland.blogs.time.com - 2/13/2009
Today in Afghanistan
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Max Boot makes some good points along the way to an extremely faulty conclusion in his Washington Post op-ed piece supporting Hamid Karzai as President of Afghanistan today. The good points are essentially strawmen, though. He's absolutely right that the United States shouldn't try to remove ...
smallwarsjournal.com - 2/10/2009
Crunch Time in Afghanistan-Pakistan
— smallwarsjournal.com — (This is an edited version of my statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan,... chaired by Senator John F. Kerry, on 5th February 2009). Senator Joseph Lieberman made a timely and well-argued call, during his recent ... (more) Crunch Time in Afghanistan-Pakistan

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Afghan Pres. Karzai hopes Obama will "settle down," show "better judgment"
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 2/14/2009
Afghan Pres. Karzai hopes Obama will "settle down," show "better judgment"
— latimesblogs.latimes.com — President Barack Obama is moving up in the world in terms of picking fights. Or walking into... them. First, came a disagreement over the impact of the administration's economic stimulus package in East Peoria, Illinois with Jim Owens , the ... (more) Afghan Pres. Karzai hopes Obama will "settle down," show ...

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India & Pakistan
bloomberg.com - 2/16/2009
India & Pakistan
— bloomberg.com — Iran Is Helping Taliban in Afghanistan, Petraeus Says (Update1) By Henry Meyer Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Iran... is helping Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, said General David Petraeus , who is in charge of U.S. forces in the Central Asian nation and ... (more) India & Pakistan

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Big Picture in Afghanistan
Opinionator — ... Karzai is mounting. To make his point, Boot turns to Iraq, noting U.S. unhappiness with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in early 2008, when things seemed to be going wrong. One year later, he says, al-Maliki’s position is strong: “Maliki only looked weak at a time when conditions in Iraq were so dire that any leader would have had trouble exercising authority. Improvements in security have led to improvements in governance.” Joe Klein, writing at Time’s Swampland blog, thinks Boot’s Iraq analogy is off base : First of all, it’s perilous to compare Afghanistan to any ...

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