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Category - Afghanistan
Whoops!
Ugh. Really? For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the...
Something's Fishy About This
This sounds eerily like the effort to discredit Daniel Ellsberg. Sweden has cancelled an arrest...
Will There Be A McDonald’s At Ground Zero?
Posted by John Christian Plummer Or a shop that sell cigarettes? Because I can read, and thus I...
Why We Fight
This is easily one of the best Colbert segments ever. Almost too bizarre to be true. David H...
Just Thinking Out Loud Here
I wonder if the House Republicans and conservadems made sure the war funding bill was deficit...
Boehner's Crazy War Plan
John Boehner wants to pay for the war by raising the retirement age for Social Security to 70...
It's All About Access
Jon Stewart reviews the cable news people as they express shocked disbelief that Rolling Stone...
Military Insurrection
Via Balloon Juice, it sounds like there's a gaggle of pissed off military commanders who are acting...
McChrystal Removed, Petraeus Takes Over
The president is speaking as I write this, but here are the basics: WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior...
The McChrystal Psychobomb
I don't think anything good will come out of this General McChrystal thing. Here's a recap of some...
Change We Can Believe In
In the past, we've had Operation Desert Storm, Operation Anaconda, Operation Enduring Freedom. And...
Cut the Crap, Part 2
Another blogger has entirely misinterpreted my Huffington Post column this week about the...
Cut the Crap
Predictably, I got my first "enlist" comment in response to my Huffington Post column yesterday...
Colbert Nails Glenn Beck on Afghanistan
I get a little barfy thinking about how 2 million Glenn Beck viewers are going around today trying...
The Afghanistan Chore
I hope this isn't a stupid metaphor, but Af-Pak is not unlike cancer. No one wants it, but I don't...
Well, Okay…
I'd rather us scale down to just enough troops to rebuild the country and keep an eye on Pakistan's...
Undermining the Commander-in-Chief
Sullivan on the president's Afghanistan strategy: If he does the full metal neocon as he is being...
Afghanistan
You haven't seen much Afghanistan blogging here because it's an impossible situation and it's...
The Missiles of November
The president's apparent rejection of all Afghanistan strategies reminds me of Kennedy's reaction...