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Restrepo: Filming Afghanistan's Deadliest Valley

Michael Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Rose

Restrepo puts you in the boots of the soldiers who spent every day, for fifteen months, trying not to do anything to get one of their brothers killed as they counted the days before they could go home.

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The Generals' Revolt

Rolling Stone | Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 05.25.2011

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In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...

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Afghanistan: Presidential Double Standards and Military Power

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

If any president is going to "cut and run" from an American military engagement he or she better be a Republican. This narrative runs deep in American political discourse.

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