Afghan Surge

Dan Froomkin

Four More Years Of War -- Just For Starters

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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The ever-accumulating case against the war in Afghanistan was bolstered this week by WikiLeaks's dissemination of over 70,000 previously secret report...

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Afghan Surge: Troops 'Face Gunfights And Minefields In Offensive Against Taliban'

washingtonpost.com | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers encountered pockets of stiff resistance and extensive minefields as they sought to press into this Taliban sanctuary ...

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Sam Stein

Top Defense Contractors Spent $27 Million Lobbying At Time Of Afghan Surge Announcement

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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With Reporting By Julian Hattem The ten largest defense contractors in the nation spent more than $27 million lobbying the federal government in the ...

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Clinton, Gates Walk Back On Obama's "Locked In" Afghan Withdrawal

Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite the president's commitment on Tuesday that a surge of US and international troops in Afghanistan would "allow us to begin the transfer of our ...

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Sam Stein

Brzezinski Calls Anti-Corruption Crusade In Afghanistan Hypocritical

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the most respected foreign policy voices in Democratic circles expressed "serious reservations" with components of a U.S. troop escalation in A...

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The Nine Surges Of Obama's War

TomDispatch | Posted at 1:03PM on November 24, 2009. | Posted 05.25.2011

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In his Afghan "surge" speech at West Point last week, President Obama offered Americans some specifics to back up his new "way forward in Afghanistan....

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Tom Friedman: Why I Can't Support The Afghan Surge

nytimes.com | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Let me start with the bottom line and then tell you how I got there: I can't agree with President Obama's decision to escalate in Afghanistan. I'd pre...

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Gates: It's Not Time To Leave Afghanistan

AP | LARA JAKES and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Facing eroding public support for the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon chief said Thursday that the Obama administration's effort i...

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Afghanistan: Violence Kills At Least 12

United Press International | Posted 05.25.2011

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At least a dozen people were killed in separate acts of violence Monday in Afghanistan, security forces said. ...

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Victory In Afghanistan Is Not Certain: Analysis

Politico.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Afghanistan has been called "the right war"; "a war we can win"; "the war we should have been fighting all along." This should set off loud alarms bec...

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