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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/opinion/29sebestyen.html well done article about Afghanistan 24 days ago |
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Yeah, but we are much more sincere than the Russkies. NYT:"Transcripts of Defeat" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/opinion/29sebestyen.html 24 days ago |
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RT @bytesize23b: @BarackObama http://tinyurl.com/ylbn525 Transcripts of Defeat: Russia in Afghanistan @whitehouse~history repeating itself 24 days ago |
Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos —
... Victor Stebestyen looks back at the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan -- brings to mind the expression about those who ignore history being doomed to repeat it. ...
Bob Gates' Bad Bet
At-Largely —
Posted by Jeff Huber Author Victor Sebestyen notes in a recent New York Times editorial that in 1988, then deputy director of the CIA Robert Gates bet $25 that the Russian army would not leave Afghanistan. Now, Gates is assuring our ...
Here He Goes Again
TPMCafe —
... He has to do this. The common thread in all these re-positionings is a supposedly knowing, conservative apprehension of the need to use force against force. We have no choice. But Iraq was a war of choice, and a disastrously wrong one for anti-terrorism. It is one of the reasons we've "lost" Afghanistan, assuming we could ever have outdone the British or the Russians, the latter defeat reprised chillingly from Soviet archives in the Times by Victor Sebestyen. ...
Bob Gates’ Bad Bet
Antiwar.com Original —
Author Victor Sebestyen notes in a recent New York Times editorial that in 1988, then deputy director of the CIA Robert Gates bet $25 that the Russian army would not leave Afghanistan. Now, Gates is assuring our ...
Tomgram: Afghanistan as a Bailout State
TomDispatch —
... country amid war in its tribal borderlands, a terror campaign spreading throughout the country, escalating American drone attacks, and increasingly testy relations between American officials and the Pakistani government and military.
Meanwhile, the U.S. command in Afghanistan is considering a strategy that involves pulling back from the countryside and focusing on protecting more heavily populated areas (which might be called, with the first U.S. Afghan War of the 1980s in mind, the Soviet strategy). The underpopulated parts ...
Too Big to Fail?
Antiwar.com Original —
... country amid war in its tribal borderlands, a terror campaign spreading throughout the country, escalating American drone attacks, and increasingly testy relations between American officials and the Pakistani government and military. Meanwhile, the U.S. command in Afghanistan is considering a strategy that involves pulling back from the countryside and focusing on protecting more heavily populated areas (which might be called, with the first U.S. Afghan War of the 1980s in mind, the Soviet strategy ). The underpopulated ...
Too Big to Fail? Why All the President's Afghan Options Are Bad Ones
Commondreams.org Views —
... country amid war in its tribal borderlands, a terror campaign spreading throughout the country, escalating American drone attacks, and increasingly testy relations between American officials and the Pakistani government and military. Meanwhile, the U.S. command in Afghanistan is considering a strategy that involves pulling back from the countryside and focusing on protecting more heavily populated areas (which might be called, with the first U.S. Afghan War of the 1980s in mind, the Soviet strategy ). The underpopulated ...
