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Contractors in Afghanistan, A Recipe for Failure

By Armand Biroonak
December 18, 2009

Similar to Iraq, the use of contractors by the U.S. government in Afghanistan stands at unprecedented levels. In fact, contractors in Afghanistan outnumber American troops –and will continue to do so despite Obama’s troop increase in 2010. more »

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America's King George III may get a challenge from the left on Afghanistan.

By Michael Kwiatkowski
December 11, 2009

Leave it to Ohio's Dennis Kucinich to do what no one else in Congress has the courage to do. more »

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Imperial Blues

By Robert Borosage
December 2, 2009

..."[O]ur troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended -- because the nation that I am most interested in building is our own."

—President Obama

But Afghanistan comes first?

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Obama’s Afghan Speech: Wrong on the Details

By Armand Biroonak
December 2, 2009

Without a doubt President Obama can deliver a speech. However, beyond the eloquence of his troop surge announcement that was given on Tuesday night, his Afghanistan policy misses key details –this should worry progressives. more »

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Afghanistan: Financial Folly

By Armand Biroonak
December 1, 2009

President Obama’s expected announcement Tuesday night of a 34,000 troop surge in Afghanistan is indeed a worrisome as well as costly decision. more »

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The Hollow Politics of Escalation

By Norman Solomon
November 30, 2009

An underlying conceit of the new spin about benchmarks and timetables for Afghanistan is the notion that pivotal events there can be choreographed from Washington. more »

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Lost in Afghanistan?

By David Corn
From motherjones.com
September 21st, 2009

motherjones.com — What jumps off the declassified pages of the Afghanistan war assessment by Gen. Stanley McChrystal is line after line indicating that the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan have truly botched the mission so far. In other words, thank you, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

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Afghanistan Policy Not Working, There and Here

By Armand Biroonak
September 11, 2009

As today marks the eighth anniversary of the tragic September 11th attacks, it is also a reminder of the calamitous road of foreign policy that the Bush administration took us down shortly after. The Iraq War was of course an outright disaster, but Obama’s recent troop escalation into Afghanistan should worry progressives equally. more »

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Avoiding Quagmire In Afghanistan

By Isaiah J. Poole
March 27, 2009

Today President Obama put forward his own answer to the conflict in Afghanistan, and that leaves many people in the progressive movement asking: If Obama has a better diagnosis of the problem than the previous snake-oil merchants in the White House, why does he seem to be using the same failed medicine, only in a different location? Getting direct answers to blunt questions such as that one must be the urgent priority of Congress and of the progressive movement.

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Karzai to Obama: End Civilian Deaths

From usatoday.com
November 5th, 2008

usatoday.com — It did not take long for President-elect Barack Obama to get his first demand from a world leader. In a statement congratulating him for his election victory, Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a demand that he "put an end to civilian casualties." The statement follows the U.S. bombing Monday afternoon of the remote village of Wech Baghtu in the southern province of Kandahar. The attack destroyed an Afghan housing complex and killed 37 people, including 23 children, who had gathered at a wedding celebration. "We cannot win the fight against terrorism with airstrikes," Karzai said.

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