dailykos.com - 2/21/2009
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President Barack Obama's Tuesday announcement that the U.S. will be adding 17,000 fresh troops to those already fighting in Afghanistan upended hopes among some progressives that the 60-day policy review he announced February 10 would be completed before any such surge. As has been becoming ...
The New Strategy for Afghanistan
outsidethebeltway.com 2/9/2009 — The Obama Administration has outlined a new strategy for Afghanistan:
The Obama administration today today outlined a new campaign strategy for the war in Afghanistan, scaling back the ambitions of George Bush in a shift which senior officials and ...
What, I Was Serious?
windsofchange.net 1/15/2009 — I saw this the other day, and waited for it to get picked up and commented on. It wasn't, so I'll raise it here.
Here's Spencer Ackerman writing in the Washington Independent :
Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against ...
Kissinger: COIN Won’t Work/McCain: CT Won’t Work
outsidethebeltway.com 2/27/2009 — Within the last couple of days both Sen. John McCain and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have offered contrasting strategies for Afghanistan. John McCain’s plan was explained in a speech before the American Enterprise Institute and ...
GetAfghanistanRight.com
washingtonindependent.com 1/12/2009 — Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the ...
Getting Afghanistan Right
agonist.org 1/14/2009 — Memo to President-Elect Obama:
"Now it is folly to go against men who could not be kept under even if conquered, while failure would leave us in a very different position from that which we occupied before the enterprise."
Thucydides, VI, 11. ...
The Cost Of A COIN War In Afghanistan
newshoggers.com 3/19/2009 — By Steve Hynd
It's apparently a taboo subject - no-one wants to talk about how much a COIN war in Afghanistan will cost or even how long it will last. Conservatives simply don't want to "lose" and don't seem to care about the costs, while ...
Obama to Deploy 2 More Brigades to Afghanistan
briefingroom.thehill.com 2/20/2009 — President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he is sending two more troop brigades to Afghanistan.
Obama said in a statement that the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan "demands argent attention and swift action."
"The Taliban is resurgent in ...
Thoughts on Afghanistan
corner.nationalreview.com 1/30/2009 — 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 ...
The Case for the Middle Path in Afghanistan
democracyarsenal.org 3/25/2009 — As the President moves to make a decision in Afghanistan three schools of thought have emerged on what he should do. The President could choose to go all in. He could choose a minimalist strategy. Or he could opt for something in ...
Holbrooke Calls for "Complete Rethink" of Drugs in Afghanistan
motherjones.com 3/27/2009 — This morning, after President Barack Obama unveiled his new Afghanistan policy, three senior administration officials held an on-the-record (but no cameras) briefing for White House reporters. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the special envoy for ...
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