General Mcchrystal

Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry To Testify On Afghan War

washingtonpost.com | Michael D. Shear and Scott Wilson | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

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The top U.S. general and the U.S ambassador in Afghanistan have been told to prepare to testify before Congress as early as next week, according to Wh...

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Bad Math in Afghanistan: Deaths vs. Compensation

Sarah Holewinski | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

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Nobody's manning the calculator at NATO. War never delivers clean numbers, but no matter how you look at these, something doesn't add up.

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A Call for Clarity on Afghanistan

Peter Henne | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

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Whatever the President decides, he must rhetorically prepare the public for the costs of his Afghanistan strategy, a feat that cannot be accomplished until he clearly differentiates the two approaches to this war.

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Resume the Mission

Gary Hart | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

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The more plausible alternative in Afghanistan is to resume the original limited mission, the one that took us there eight long years ago.

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Crazy or Crafty?

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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The idealistic notion that the United States is not in perpetual conflict with Arabs and Islam, argued by President Obama in Cairo but belied by history, has been dealt a serious setback by Fort Hood.

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Congress Must Hold Emergency Hearings on Afghanistan Before Obama Makes His Troop Deployment Decision

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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If Congress is going to be called upon to finance this war with billions more in taxpayer dollars, this debate should be taking place in the halls of Congress in front of the American people.

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RETRACTED: Inside This Morning's White House Afghanistan Meeting: Anger With Eikenberry, 'Beef' With McChrystal

washingtonindependent.com | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

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Update, 8:50 a.m.: I am retracting this post, published yesterday, titled "Inside This Morning's White House Afghanistan Meeting: Anger With Eikenberr...

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Afghanistan: Eight Years On and No Direction Home

Paul Fitzgerald | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

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That failure has finally occurred in Afghanistan and the consequences will be devastating, yet Washington continues along in a dreamlike haze, narrowing the argument to simplistic Vietnam era clichés while the world moves on without it.

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The President and Afghanistan: The Case for Why He Must Stay

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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President Obama has no real choice but to accede to Gen. McChrystal's request and soon; if he does no,t the Taliban and Al Qaeda are willing to outlast our troops on the ground.

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Hold the Line in Afghanistan

Percy Blakeney | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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If Obama permits McChrystal to implement his strategy, the US will lose the war in Afghanistan, the Taliban will return to power, and the nation will once again become a safe haven for al-Qaeda and Islamic extremism.

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Why Joe Biden Should Resign

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

The vice president has long opposed escalating in Afghanistan. So if the president decides to escalate, Biden, for the good of the country, should escalate his willingness to act on his "deep reservations" and resign.

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A Time for War, A Time for Peace Prizes

Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

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The Nobel Committee's puzzling decision to award President Obama with the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize inspired me to return to Ecclesiastes.

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Obama Delays McChrystal's Washington Trip To Discuss Troop Levels

washingtonpost.com | Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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The White House has told the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan to delay a planned trip here Friday to brief President Obama and his senior ad...

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Joe Klein: Critics Knocking Obama For Reviewing Afghan Strategy Are Full Of It

Time | Joe Klein | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

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A few weeks ago, a well-known U.S. military expert gave a wise speech about the near impossibility of making a counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy work ...

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How General McChrystal May Have Hurt Himself

Jon Soltz | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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From Generals MacArthur to Shinseki, history has taught us that trying to pressure your commander-in-chief from the outside almost never results in a change of opinion from the president.

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Did the NRCC Really Say Nancy Pelosi Should Be Put in Her Place?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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The specific language used by the NRCC in its latest statement reveals the contempt with which it holds not just Speaker Pelosi, but also some of the basic ideas on which our democracy rests.

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Obama Receives McChrystal's Troop Request

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The Afghanistan war reached its once-unthinkable eighth anniversary Wednesday as President Barack Obama, seeking a revamped strateg...

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Pakistan Forgotten During Afghan Debate

npr.org | Jackie Northam | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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The debate on Afghanistan has riveted Congress, the Pentagon and policy-watchers as the Obama administration reviews its current strategy. Following a...

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Why Isn't Leaving Afghanistan a Serious Option?

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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The "leaving Afghanistan" stance is not a "straw man argument." It's based on the opinion that the U.S. has no right to nation build in autonomous countries, and is making life hell for Afghans.

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Robert Gates Wants War Advice To Obama Kept Private

The Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson and Scott Wilson | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stressed Monday that military and civilian leaders should keep their advice to President Obama on Afghanistan privat...

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Is the Military-Industrial Complex Using Gen. McChrystal to "Potty Train" Obama on Afghanistan?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

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The McChrystal affair is a vivid reminder of the huge pressures powerful vested interests can place on a new president to protect the status quo and prevent meaningful change.

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Obama's Big Question: To Go or Not to Go, Copenhagen That is

Michael Russnow | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Obama is not a miracle maker, but he will have at least tried to win the IOC bid. And during it all, he and the government will continue in any necessary actions.

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McChrystal On 60 Minutes: Afghanistan "A Little Worse" Than Gen. Stanley M. McChrystal Expected (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

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Things in Afghanistan are "probably a little worse" than Gen. Stanley M. McChrystal expected. 60 Minutes aired its interview Sunday night with Gen. M...

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