Osama Bin Laden is dead. Al Qaeda is no longer in Afghanistan in any significant numbers. While the Afghanistan War long ago lost a strategic rationale supported by actual outcomes on the ground (insurgent-initiated attacks continue to rise every year, despite the massive escalations of the past two years), Bin Laden’s death obliterates the last [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Osama bin Laden’
Don’t Let Bin Laden Have the Last Laugh. Get Our Troops and Our Tax Dollars Home.
Posted: May 4, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Brave New Foundation, counterinsurgency, Osama bin Laden, Rethink Afghanistan
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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 [...]
