bravenewfilms.org - 12/27/2008
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Afghanistan is larger, less hospitable, more populous and proportionally more expensive and deadly for U.S. troops. That's what makes the United States' attempt to use our favorite foreign policy strategy--counterinsurgency--so dangerous in Afghanistan with far, far fewer troops than we have in ...
longwarjournal.org - 12/28/2008
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Taliban suicide bombers struck on both sides of
the Durand Line, killing 51 and wounding score more...
in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The suicide attack in Pakistan took place in the settled district of Buner in the insurgency-infested Northwest ...
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Taliban suicide bomber strike in Pakistan, Afghanistan
attackerman.firedoglake.com - 12/26/2008
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The portrait of 2009’s passel of counterinsurgency efforts
in Afghanistan is becoming clearer. Bolster troop levels ....
Recruit tribal militias to battle extremists , in a second-time-as-farce version of Iraq’s Anbar Awakening. Mitigate increasing ...
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She Said You Couldn’t Stay Up
foxnews.com - 12/28/2008
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First lady Laura Bush said she was offended
by the recent "assault" on her husband, who had...
two shoes thrown at him during a recent visit to Iraq. At the same time, however, she said the assault shows that Iraqis feel a lot freer than they did before. ...
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First Lady: Shoe 'Assault' Shows Freedom in Iraq - ...
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Tactics Used In Afghanistan Illustrate U.S. Failed To Learn From Iraq
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... and were "saved," in terms of U.S. domestic debate, by ethnic cleansing that caused a precipitous drop in violence (which tends to happen when everyone is dead). But that hasn't stopped the U.S. military from claiming that an escalation in Afghanistan would be an application of "lessons learned in Iraq" to Afghanistan.
But an examination of the tactics used in Afghanistan flatly disproves any claims by the U.S. to have learned from mistakes in Iraq.
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... and were "saved," in terms of U.S. domestic debate, by ethnic cleansing that caused a precipitous drop in violence (which tends to happen when everyone is dead). But that hasn't stopped the U.S. military from claiming that an escalation in Afghanistan would be an application of "lessons learned in Iraq" to Afghanistan.
But an examination of the tactics used in Afghanistan flatly disproves any claims by the U.S. to have learned from mistakes in Iraq.
Continue reading here.
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