“Loyalty to the community is…morally tolerable only if it includes values wider than those of the community.” –Reinhold Niebuhr, one of President Obama’s “favorite philosophers,” in The Irony of American History, p. 37. According to The New York Times, the new plan in Afghanistan will involve sending large new deployments of troops into insurgency-prone areas [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Troop Increase in Afghanistan Risks Spike in Civilian Casualties
Posted: December 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Helmand, Khandahar, Khost, Operation Khanjar, Rethink Afghanistan
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The War of Necessity Goes AWOL
Posted: December 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Defense Department, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan, war costs
Before moving past President Obama’s underwhelming speech explaining his misguided decision to send 30,000 more kids with guns to kill and die in Afghanistan, it’s worth pointing out one more big omission: The War of Necessity was nowhere to be found. The president said: I make this decision because I am convinced that our security [...]
No Exit Strategy in Obama’s Speech, but Plenty of Escalation
Posted: December 2, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, escalation, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan, Robert Gates
The press is getting it wrong regarding the president’s announcement of the newest of his escalations in Afghanistan, which said: I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home…Just as we have done in [...]
Liveblogging the President’s Speech Tonight
Posted: December 1, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, escalation, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan
I’ll be liveblogging the President’s speech tonight at The Seminal. Hope you’ll stop in.
