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Obama's Dilemma in Afghanistan

Jerome Slater | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

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If the military gets what it wants and the tide turns in Afghanistan, Obama will get the credit; if it doesn't, at least the Democrats can say they gave the armed forces what they said they needed.

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Victory at Last! Monty Python in Afghanistan

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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Finally, American war commanders have effectively marshaled their forces, outmaneuvering and outflanking the enemy. I'm not talking about Afghanistan. I'm talking about what's happening in Washington.

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What Does 30,000 Troops Really Buy Us?

Megan Carpentier | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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Is a graceful withdrawal and a less unstable puppet government worth more American lives? Are those lives really worth that "success"?

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Doing More... to Do Less

Richard N. Haass | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

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Obama is working to persuade the American people that our interests in Afghanistan are worth sacrificing for, while he places a ceiling on what the United States is prepared to do. Therein lies the dilemma.

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The Afghanistan Parenthesis

David Bromwich | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

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At West Point, Obama seemed to want to declare a policy and take it back in a single breath. But there are circles that can't be squared. With war, the way in is not the way out.

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President Obama's Afghanistan Speech a True Capitulation

Charles Butler | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration has to stop campaigning to get down to governing. All of the campaign-like speeches are becoming quite transparent to the American people and foreigners alike.

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Here We Go Again

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

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To suggest that the Afghan government will be in seriously better shape 18 months after 30,000 additional U.S. are dispatched is bizarrely out of touch with the strategy of the McChrystal report.

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9/11? Yes, 9/11.

Oliver Willis | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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If you don't support increasing the amount of troops, that is a fine and patriotic position to have, but folks on the Left have got to quit rewriting history by pretending Obama is somehow suddenly a hawk on Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan -- the Sisyphus War

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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As Albert Camus once said, "The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back o...

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Afghanistan: Obama Drops The Other Shoe

Michael Brenner | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

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Reversing himself on Afghanistan would have demanded a kind of courage that has been wholly foreign to Obama. So we are left with an open-ended commitment to an unwinnable war.

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The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't)

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

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While we don't know what exactly is going through Obama's mind, or just when or in what form he will address us on his plan for the war in Afghanistan, we do know something about what his conclusions are likely to be.

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Left, Right & Center: 9/11 Trials, Afghanistan, Asia, Job Summit, Fort Hood

Huff Radio | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

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What will Obama do in Afghanistan? Without jobs, can Democrats win the next round of elections? And a second look at the Fort Hood massacre.

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Garry Wills: Obama Buying Second Term With Lives of Young Americans

New York Review Of Books | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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I am told by people I respect that Barack Obama cannot pull out of both Iraq and Afghanistan without becoming a one-term president. I think that may b...

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Troop Increases and the Irony of Afghanistan

Kit Gallant | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

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Is it not ludicrous to imagine that adding soldiers is the appropriate method for achieving our (vague) goals, given that our problems clearly don't stem from a military inferiority?

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Obama Will Not "Rush" Afghanistan Troop Decision

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Despite Republican pressure to act quickly, President Barack Obama says he won't rush his decision about whether to send mo...

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Call a Jirga Not a Runoff in Afghanistan

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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If the U.S. and international community are serious about this intervention and having any kind of political success (and less war) in Afghanistan, it should call a Loya Jirga, or a "grand assembly".

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Obama Must Consider His Options in Afghanistan

Raj Purohit | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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Afghanistan cannot be secured via the military escalation proposed by General McChrystal and endorsed by neoconservatives in recent days.

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We Owe It to Our Troops to Bring Hardnosed Realism to Whatever We Ask Them to Do

Rep. David R. Obey | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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I believe we need to more narrowly focus our efforts in Afghanistan and have a much more achievable and targeted policy, or we risk repeating the mistakes of Vietnam and the Russians in Afghanistan.

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Afghans Say The Country Needs More Afghan Forces, Not U.S. Troops

ABC News | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

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In the Helmand River Valley, where more American troops have shed their blood this year than anywhere else, the police chief has a simple message to t...

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How to Trap a President in a Losing War: Petraeus, McChrystal, and the Surgettes

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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Even if McChrystal's name is on it, the report slipped to Bob Woodward which just sandbagged the president has a distinctly Petraeusian shape to it.

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Afghanistan: Doubt Grows Over Another Distant War

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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KENT, Ohio — The demonstrations, the troops, the fresh anger are all long gone. Where anti-war protests raged, today a granite plaza invites pea...

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Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

David Swanson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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Here's the funny part. This dark fantasy of a third Bush term is also an accurate portrait of Obama's first term to date.

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Feingold To Oppose Afghan War Troop Increase

Washington Independent | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

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If Gen. Stanley McChrystal proposes, as expected, an increase in U.S. troops for the Afghanistan war, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) is "likely to oppose...

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