youtube.com - 10/25/2009
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Ellsberg: As President Obama decides what to do in Afghanistan he must learn the lessons of Vietnam
mudvillegazette.com - 10/28/2009
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mudvillegazette.com —
By the looks of it, this NY Times
story was going to tell the whole truth :...
The Great American Arm-Twist in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan -- By the looks of it, the ceremony that unfolded last week inside the Presidential Palace here was marking a joyous, even triumphant, occasion. ...
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Round Two
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/26/2009
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While the president didn't mention criticism by former
Vice President Dick Cheney that the White House was...
"dithering" on strategy, he made it clear he wouldn't be pressured into a decision.
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Obama Defends Afghanistan Timetable
thinkprogress.org - 10/23/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
Last night in a speech to the Center
for Security Policy, Vice President Cheney attacked President Obama...
for “ dithering ” on whether to add more troops to Afghanistan. “[T]he success of our mission in Afghanistan is not only ...
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Gibbs Responds to Cheney: He ‘Seems To Have Forgotten ...
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Ellsberg: "No Success That Will Be Lasting" In Afghanistan
Newshoggers.com —
By Steve Hynd
Daniel "Pentagon Papers" Ellsberg talks to Real News Network about Afghanistan. He says that he wrote McChrystal's assessment thirty years ago, only with the names changed; that counter-insurgency cannot succeed for a foreign occupier and that there can be no success that will survive after U.S. troops leave Afghanistan.
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John Podesta Points Out Bush Admin Only Spent 1 Hour on Afghanistan Report Before Handing Off
Crooks and Liars —
(h/t David at VideoCafe ) Well, I guess when Dick Cheney referred to Obama " dithering ", he actually meant spending any time thinking about the situation at all, given how little time they spent preparing a report for the incoming administration. CAP's John Podesta points out the problem on This Week : (Former Bush officials and Republicans) have been citing an Afghanistan strategy report they handed off to the Obama administration that clearly laid out recommendations for moving forward (to criticize Obama's decision process). From Cheney’s recent remarks to the Center for Security Policy: In the fall of 2008, fully aware of the need to ...
In Afghanistan Our Soldiers Are Strangers In A Strange Land
DownWithTyranny! —
No Nobel Peace Prize voters here Saturday afternoon we suggested that President Nobel Prize Winner start getting ready to see his effigies being burned, not just at teabagger rallies here in America, but around the world, where disappointment in policies that have little to do with either Hope or Change, are starting to turn people off ...
Velvet Junta Revisited
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Posted by Jeff Huber Daniel Ellsburg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers that revealed Lyndon Johnson went along with a war he knew was unwinnable, says we’re repeating Vietnam in Afghanistan. In an interview with The Real News, Ellsberg remarks “No victory lies ahead in Afghanistan” and “they’re not going to get effective performance out of Afghan troops.” Ellsberg also notes the existence of the open conflict between the Pentagon and the White House. Journalist Seymour Hersh , who exposed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the Abu Ghraib scandal in Iraq, says the military is "in a war against the White House—and they feel they have Obama boxed in." In ...
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Here's the thing: This may be our next "Vietnam moment," but Afghanistan is no Vietnam: there are no major enemy powers like the Soviet Union and China lurking in the background; no organized enemy state with a powerful army like North Vietnam ...
Obama at the Precipice: Tough Guys Don't Need to Dance in Afghanistan
huffingtonpost.com 10/12/2009 — It's early in 1965, and President Lyndon B. Johnson faces a critical decision. Should he escalate in Vietnam? Should he say "yes" to the request from U.S. commanders for more troops? Or should he change strategy, downsize the American commitment, even ...
CNN Poll: Will Afghanistan turn into another Vietnam?
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 10/19/2009 — WASHINGTON (CNN) - A slight majority of Americans think that the war in Afghanistan is turning into another Vietnam, according to a new national poll which also indicates that nearly six in 10 oppose sending more U.S. troops to the conflict.
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AP Screws The Pooch On Kennedy, Vietnam & Afghanistan
maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com 25 days ago — The Associated Press screwed the pooch*, in multiple ways, in its reporting of the release by the JFK Presidential Library of previously classified recordings of President Kennedy's meetings in 1963 with advisors about Vietnam. The ...
Tomgram: William Astore, Apocalypse Then, Afghanistan Now
tomdispatch.com 10/12/2009 — Here's the thing: This may be our next "Vietnam moment," but Afghanistan is no Vietnam: there are no major enemy powers like the Soviet Union and China lurking in the background; no organized enemy state with a powerful army like North Vietnam ...
Harvey Wasserman: Obama's LBJ Moment
huffingtonpost.com 10/4/2009 — Lyndon Johnson was once on the verge of becoming one of America's greatest presidents.
But with a single wrong turn into Vietnam, LBJ plunged himself and the nation into a ghastly tragedy that still makes us all weep and bleed.
It is now up to ...
US Eyes Vietnam for Afghanistan Tips
commondreams.org 9/11/2009 — BRUSSELS — Top U.S. officials have reached out to a leading Vietnam war scholar to discuss the similarities of that conflict 40 years ago with American involvement in Afghanistan, where the U.S. is seeking ways to isolate an elusive guerrilla force ...
Vietnam Again?
themoderatevoice.com 9/22/2009 — As critics taunt the President about becoming another Jimmy Carter on the economy or Bill Clinton on health care reform, an older generation is haunted by the makings of another LBJ in Afghanistan.
General Stanley McChrystal’s call for more troops with the or-else warning that our ...
Ellsberg: "No Success That Will Be Lasting" In Afghanistan
newshoggers.com 10/25/2009 — By Steve Hynd
Daniel "Pentagon Papers" Ellsberg talks to Real News Network about Afghanistan. He says that he wrote McChrystal's assessment thirty years ago, only with the names changed; that counter-insurgency cannot succeed for a foreign occupier ...
Is Afghanistan Obama's Vietnam? —
CNN.com - Politics 10/24/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama says the war in Afghanistan isn't going to end up like Vietnam. A majority of Americans don't agree and don't want to get in any deeper, but even they don't like the alternative.
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