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Retired General McCaffrey Presents Views on Afghanistan
11 hours ago ago from Watts Cookin'
This is a report written by retired General Barry R. McCaffrey at the request of Generals Petraeus and McChrystal. The report is not dated, but it was after President Obama's decision to increase our troop levels in Afghanistan. This will be very informative to all those interested in background information on the pros and cons of our situation in Afghanistan. However, it should be read with some skepticism about its objectivity. ...
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7 hours ago ago from Enduring America
Tom Englehardt, writing at TomDispatch , goes beyond the headline 30,000 extra troops of President Obama's recent announcement to detail the extent of the US escalation and long-term commitment despite Obama's initial declaration of a beginning to the end of the military presence in July 2011 to the intervention in Afghanistan (N.B.: All links in original article): In his Afghan “surge” speech at West Point last week, President Obama ...
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19 hours ago ago from a peace of conflict
By Graham Engel “But war’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.” - William Cowper, The Task, V, The Winter Morning Walk, line 187. While Canadian troops have been present in Afghanistan since at least 2001, present conditions suggest Canada will not be there much longer. Our current Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is calling for an exit strategy 1 while still assuring the US that we will support them in ...
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5 hours ago ago from Rising in Phoenix
Why do we send young Americans to risk life and limb on behalf of such worthless regimes? The insurgency in Afghanistan is led by the Taliban. Its target is its own government, not our government. Its only quarrel with us is that its members see us using our troops and other resources to prop up a government they despise. George McGovern Afghanistan photos and comments from BagNewsNotes http://www.bagnewsnotes.com Another ...
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3 hours ago ago from Voice of Reason Broadcast Network
December 15, 2009 Print This Article I guess President Barack Obama has never read Benjamin Franklin’s maxim, “there never was a good war, or a bad peace.” Obama’s speech in Oslo proclaiming Afghanistan a “good” war and trying to justify US global military operations echoes to America’s detriment around Europe and, more important, the Muslim world. The president’s address dismayed many who foolishly hoped the “anti-war” ...
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David Sirota: Obama and the Ghost of Vietnam-Era Politics
22 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The New York Times this weekend profiled my old boss Rep. David Obey (D-WI) and his efforts to force the Obama administration to change course in Afghanistan. You can - and should - read it here . I worked closely with Obey on a daily basis during the darkest of the dark Bush years. And I grew to really love the guy. He is a lot of things - prickly, intense, brilliant and loyal, all at the same time. And, to say the least, he doesn't suffer ...
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34 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: Two major powers have struggled for control of Afghanistan over the last few decades, The Soviet Union and the US. Facing a surge in troops in Afghanistan, we are turning to the archives of The New York Review of Books to locate ourselves in history, understand the context of the current American war. What should the US course of action be? From the article, "The Making of Afghanistan", by Pankaj Mishra, November ...
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2 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Biden: US policy is to advance Afghan stability WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday the United States had no choice but to substantially increase its presence in Afghanistan because America would be "in real trouble" if the Karzai government fails. But Biden also acknowledged in a nationally broadcast interview that much of the terrorist threat originates in neighboring Pakistan, and said the Obama administration is ...
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