Afghanistan
In Which Zandar Answers Your Burning Questions
Steve Benen asks:A couple of angles to consider here. First, George W. Bush took months to ponder the "surge" policy in Iraq. I don't r…
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A Primer On Our Afghanistan Situation
It works like this. Given the following:1) Republicans are attacking President Obama because he hasn't made a decision on Afghanistan yet.2) Rep…
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Unleash Joe Biden, Afghanistan Edition
Sam Stein's piece on Joe Biden is worth a read. Biden lost the battle on the escalation, but he won the war on withdrawal from Afghanistan. On t…
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Six Years In
And this is the worst news I've seen all day, as I am reminded that today marks the sixth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, which sho…
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More Loud Noises On Wikileaks
It's depressing to see Republicans like New York's Peter King, constantly calling this administration corrupt and the most secretive in histo…
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Stockholm Syndrome
News reports coming in of a pair of car bombs in Sweden, possibly linked to the country's military involvement in Afghanistan or editorial cartoo…
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Af-Gone-Istan
Sully gets it on Afghanistan. As Obama appears to be intensifying the lost war in Afghanistan, with the same benchmark rubric that meant next-to-noth…
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Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't
I'm still not happy with Obama's Afghanistan policy. He's going to get attacked from the left and the right, and deservedly so. Eight y…
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Give And Take
On one hand, as BooMan pointed out earlier today, Obama seems to be indicating he's winding down the rhetoric on Afghanistan. On the other hand,…
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Prince Of Darkness, Con't
Our old friend Erik Prince is back, as America's favorite mercenary warlord is once again pushing his plan to privatize the Forever War with Afg…
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At Least Someone's Hiring
CNN is reporting that Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he's going to expand the U.S. Armed Forces by 20,000 troops.The goal is to ease the str…
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Break Out The Booze And Condoms!
No, seriously. Apparently the War in Iraq is over and we won and everything. So when can we bring the troops home?With victory in sight, why would …
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Super Bomber Man Ultra
US Attorney General Eric Holder explained in detail Monday the legal and Constitutional rationale behind the targeting killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. A…
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Sunday Long Read: The Forever War
For my generation, the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq following 9/11 are the defining events of our lives, all the way back to the first Gulf War w…
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Meanwhile, Over There...
Afghanistan is still a nasty little war. Afghan and coalition soldiers killed more than 30 insurgents, including 13 would-be suicide bombers, as the…
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Sunday Funnies: Economy Of Words Edition
Uncle Alan and Mike Bloomberg explain it all in this week's Bobblespeaks. Gregory: Welcome everyone to Recovery Summer! What the hell is wrong? …
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Brave Enough To Make Them Suffer
Via Greg Sargent I see my junior GOP Senator Rand Paul isn't too happy with his fellow Republicans about not wanting to fully embrace his $500 bi…
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Last Call For Disaster Diplomacy
Trump's now-cancelled Camp David talks with the Taliban are the latest example of Trump being in over his head, now it's the rest of the GOP…
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Dead Or Alive
It's interesting to see the reaction of today's news about the Senate report on the fact that we had a chance to pursue and capture Osama Bin…
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