We needed a game-changer in Afghanistan. The plan delivered by the new administration is not it. The most important and destructive deficiency of the new plan is its willful ignorance of the bad effects of flooding Afghanistan with more foreign troops. For months, experts ranging from Richard Barrett (the UN’s al-Qaida/Taliban expert) to Gilles Dorronsoro [...]
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Administration Gets Afghanistan Wrong
Posted: March 27, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan escalation, escalation, Obama
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