I sat through a painful House Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday to listen for anything new from General Stanley McChrystal, who continued the administration’s backpedaling from the July 2011 date for the start of a drawdown in Afghanistan: “I don’t believe July 2011 is a major factor in my military strategy.” This quote is the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Karl Eikenberry’
Democrats Continue to Run Away from Their Base on Afghanistan
Posted: December 9, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, General McChrystal, Ike Skelton, Karl Eikenberry, Rethink Afghanistan, Rory O'Connor, Stanley McChrystal
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An Interview with Matthew Hoh
Posted: November 21, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaida, COIN, counterinsurgency, Karl Eikenberry, Matthew Hoh, Rethink Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Taliban
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. If Matthew Hoh could tell you one thing to help you understand the U.S.’s predicament in Afghanistan, he’d tell you: The presence of our ground combat troops [...]
Hope?
Posted: November 12, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Karl Eikenberry, Obama
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. Two very hopeful stories (well, actually one story in two different forms) broke this evening that show that the non-escalation factions in the Obama Administration can play [...]
