Barack Obama and Afghanistan

Dear President Obama: New Orleans Needs a Surge

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karen Dalton-Beninato

You are invited to impose security. Strategy, slogans, a new direction, we'll take it all. You are now marching toward escalation; please escalate at home to reassure a crime-weary New Orleans.

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Afghanistan Is the War Obama Always Wanted

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Only the most hopelessly naïve, star struck or a true believer could have ever thought that President Obama would not dump massive numbers of fresh troops into Afghanistan.

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Barack Obama's New Afghan Strategy To Be Announced Soon

AP | ANNE GEARAN and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is close to announcing a redrawn strategy for a war in Afghanistan that the president says the United States i...

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Army Chief Of Staff General George Casey: "No Reason To Doubt" Obama On Troop Shortages

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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After the Pentagon denied Barack Obama's account of military shortages in Afghanistan, Army Chief of Staff General George Casey said, "I have no reaso...

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