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General McChrystal, Obama’s Afghanistan czar, requested 40,000 troops a few months ago. Obama hemmed and hawed, and decided he’d let McChrystal have 30,000 troops if he promised to surrender and withdraw sometime in July 2011. Now, with confidence, McChrystal asserted: But he said, “I will always provide my best military advice” and if conditions warrant, [...]
Sensing a bit hesitation in President Obama’s support, Hamid Karzai promised reforms the world can believe it. Among those reforms: “We want our Taliban brothers and all others to come back and join with us,” he added. Last I recall, the entire point of going into Afghanistan was to remove those who supported Osama Bin [...]
MATTHEWS: That’s not fair. The group in this country that most resembles the Taliban, ironically, is the religious right. Chris Matthews blurts that out as the screen is fading. His guest was not given any chance to respond other than to blurt out “rubbish”. I think he’s nuts. What do you think? Chris Matthews thinks [...]
In my world, the ultimate definition of a pacifist is to enter a war and not be terribly concerned with winning. You do this by not acknowledging it’s actually a war, then equivocating what the ultimate outcome must be. In Korea and Vietnam, the United Nations, with an assist from the United States, would not [...]
News is coming in that the Swat and Buner provinces of Pakistan have fallen under the control of the Taliban. It doesn’t seem to be getting much airplay tho. Let me see if this makes things a little more urgent: The blue areas are where the Taliban were. The red area is where they [...]
