shadow.foreignpolicy.com - 2/10/2009
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By Christian Brose The biggest question I brought into the Munich Security Conference this past weekend was, what is to be done in Afghanistan? I've been struck by how quickly U.S. public opinion has shifted from the "good war" to looming quagmire . In part this is because there's ...
smallwarsjournal.com - 2/10/2009
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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 ...
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Crunch Time in Afghanistan-Pakistan
michaelyon-online.com - 2/10/2009
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michaelyon-online.com —
10 February 2009 While we prepare to shunt
perhaps 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan (which still will...
not be enough), Russia continues to play the Asian chessboard. The Russians are picking off pawn after pawn, and steadily eroding our foreign ...
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How Much is Afghanistan Really Worth to Us?
article.nationalreview.com - 2/9/2009
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article.nationalreview.com —
resident Obama has said many times that America
must succeed in Afghanistan . He is right, and...
he deserves our full support in that effort. Afghanistan is in many respects harder to understand than Iraq was. Even with a good strategy and sufficient ...
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Planning Victory in Afghanistan by Frederick W. Kagan on ...
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Winning in Afghanistan
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Christian Brose has an excellent piece on FP's Shadow Government blog running through some of what he took away from the Munich Security Conference vis-à-vis our situation in Afghanistan. Brose emphasizes first and foremost that the war in Afghanistan can still be won, but he cautions that the road ahead will be difficult and costly. Brose also acknowledges the weaknesses of Hamid Karzai, and the Obama administrations legitimate frustration with him, but he warns against allowing the relationship to become too antagonistic given Karzai's rather solid grip ...
"Victory" In Afghanistan, Ctd.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Christian Brose, former chief speechwriter and policy advisor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, joins other voices on the neoconservative right: ...
The Trouble with 'Modest Expectations'
The American Scene —
I’m very, very worried about where the conversation is going on Afghanistan. Andrew Sullivan is characterizing Christian Brose as a voice of the neoconservative right for the following:
What I heard again and again is that we may have to settle for a counterterrorism-focused mission, but that should be an unfortunate option of last resort, not our going-in policy. Furthermore, we should not allow resources to determine strategy, as this study suggests, which was one interpretation I heard for the administration’s recent statements ...
OxBlog —
... may want to place slightly greater emphasis on the context of this quotation from Chris Brose's post on Afghanistan. In that context, the statement is quite reasonable. ...
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