Hannah Gurman of Foreign Policy In Focus puts the new 2014 Afghan benchmark into perspective: While NATO secretary general, Anders Rasmussen framed 2014 as the end of NATO’s combat mission in Afghanistan, Obama made sure to refer to 2014 as a target date rather than a deadline. The withdrawal of U.S. forces...
Stephen M. Walt, commenting on Obama’s recent AfPak escalation and the incongruity of domestic spending initatives vs expensive foreign military endeavours on the part of the US: As I’ve said before, Americans have come to believe that spending government revenues on U.S. citizens here at home...
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matttbastard on Oct 15, 2007 in Uncategorized |
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Good god what a load of propagandistic twaddle. Have Ricks and DeYoung learned nothing over the last 4 years? Apparently ol’ Tom is waiting until his next book to once again put away the stenographer’s pen and do his goddamn job (eg, don’t unquestioningly shovel Pentagon bullshit re:...