Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. Bruce Riedel, the chair of one of the many Obama policy reviews on Afghanistan, is ridiculous. Here he is discussing pre-election optimism in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bruce Riedel’
Hope Springs Eternal for Second-Chance Bruce
Posted: October 21, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Bruce Riedel
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Vested Interests
Posted: September 9, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Andrew Exum, Brookings, Bruce Riedel, counterinsurgency, El Salvador, Eric Martin, Rethink Afghanistan
Bruce Riedel at Brookings says we have a vested interest in shoring up Karzai’s legitimacy. That’s not surprising, given that Riedel certainly has such a vested interest. From The New York Times: “Even if we get a second round of voting, the odds are still high that Karzai will win,” said Bruce Riedel, a senior [...]
We Know Failure When We See It
Posted: August 29, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Bruce Riedel, counterinsurgency, General McChrystal, Pashtuns, Rethink Afghanistan
I’ve been mulling over the dodgy answers (if you can even call them answers) given by Ambassador Holbrooke and Defense Secretary Gates when they were recently asked to define success in Afghanistan or to speculate about how long Americans should expect to be fighting a war there. In case you missed these, take a look. [...]
CAP’s Lawrence Korb: More Fringe than Orly Taitz?
Posted: August 24, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Bruce Riedel, Evan Frisch, George Lakoff, Lawrence Korb, Osama bin Laden, Peter Paul and Mary, surgers, war on terror
It’s not easy to craft an argument more fringe than those of the Birthers, but Center for American Progress’ Lawrence Korb managed to get the job done in his recent wrong-headed piece on Afghanistan. A recent ABC/Washington Post poll showed that 59 percent of Democrats want troop levels decreased in Afghanistan, versus 29 percent of [...]
