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youtube.com - 1/12/2009

Rachel Maddow Show: America's Policy in Afghanistan (video)

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Rachel talks to Steve Clemons about the United State's policy in Afghanistan.

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Daily Kos:  Get Afghanistan Right

Think Progress:  Progressive Bloggers Launch ‘Get Afghanistan Right’ Campaign Opposing Troop Escalation

Antiwar.com Original:  The Liberals' Grand Bargain

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Get Afghanistan Right
Daily Kos — An ad hoc group of bloggers has come together for the purpose of opposing a U.S.-led escalation in Afghanistan that is slated to double the number of American troops there.   Organized by Alex Thurston at The Seminal and Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films, the project is called Get Afghanistan Right. All this week - January 12-18 - bloggers across wwwLand, as well as writers in more traditional media, will be challenging the conventional wisdom - including the conventional wisdom of many progressives - regarding Afghanistan. As Howie Klein at Down with Tyranny puts it, we'll be doing this "in the hope of helping to remind Obama that he ...

Progressive Bloggers Launch ‘Get Afghanistan Right’ Campaign Opposing Troop Escalation
Think Progress — President-elect Obama campaigned on a plan to deploy up to 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But the “incoming administration does not anticipate that the Iraq-like ’surge’ of forces will significantly change the direction” of the conflict. Instead, it hopes that the troops will “buy enough time for the new administration to reappraise the entire Afghanistan war effort and develop a comprehensive new strategy,” the Washington Post reports today. This week, a coalition of progressive bloggers — spearheaded by Brave New Films (BNF) and The Seminal — are launching a campaign called Get ...

The Liberals' Grand Bargain
Antiwar.com Original — I n the age of Obama, we're going to have to get used to the new zeitgeist in Washington, and in the media: the perpetual high moral dudgeon of contemporary liberalism. While the Bush administration had its own style of moralizing – the rhetoric of "liberation," the idea that we were doing the people of Iraq a favor ...