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In Iraq, An Uneasy Ending To A Misbegotten War

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama announced an imminent end to the American war in Iraq on Friday, long-time critics looked back on a nearly nin...

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Federal Bureaucracy and the Price of Integrity

Alma Katsu | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Intelligence, Dc, Books, Foreign Policy, Paul Pillar, Foreign Policy Books, Cia, DC News
Alma Katsu

I haven't read Paul Pillar's latest book, but I will. As a matter of fact, of the glut of books that examines U.S. foreign policy post-9/11, Pillar's book will probably be the only one that I will read.

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Afghan Army: The Few, the Proud, the Unprepared

Jake Diliberto | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jake Diliberto

Afghans cannot take control in 2011.

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Why Peaceniks Should Care About the Afghanistan Study Group Report

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Pape, Steven Walt, Al Qaeda, Steve Clemons, Pakistan, Paul Pillar, Matthew Hoh, Juan Cole, Afghanistan, Diplomacy, Afghanistan Study Group, Afghan Taliban, Foreign Policy, World News
Robert Naiman

They may not be useful for making posters for a demonstration. But for lobbying Congressional staff or making other presentations to people not already on our side, the arguments of the Afghanistan Study Group are likely to be useful.

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Cordesman Game Show: So You Think You Can Win This War?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Clemons

You really think you can dance WIN THIS WAR?? -- Anthony H. Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy (not really; just hypothetically...

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Is Team Obama Really Rethinking Afghanistan?

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Naiman

Withdrawing our forces does not mean the U.S. will have zero influence in Afghanistan. The U.S. can use political and diplomatic tools to work to ensure that a U.S. withdrawal is not followed by a Taliban military conquest.

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Senator Kerry Finds A War With Which He Can Flirt

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ann Jones, Coin, Mcchrystal, John Kerry, Paul Pillar, Matthew Hoh, Afghanistan, Andrew Wilder, Karzai, Counterinsurgency, Abdullah, World News
Derrick Crowe

If you're looking for the man who once asked, "how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" you better keep looking. The senator seems to have left him behind.

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