Things That Are Bad For America

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• Corbett to be next Pennsylvania Governor

  
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  By Dave Anderson: Pennsylvania has a tradition of electing governors from the same party for two terms and then giving the other party two terms.  That has gone back since 1968 when the governorship was term limited to two terms.  So just based on a historical pattern, it would not be surprising that a Republican ...
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• Army Arrests Single Mom, Has Baby Placed In Care, Over Afghan Deployment

  
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  By Steve Hynd A shockingly insensitive U.S. Army has arrested a single mother and soldier who couldnt find a carer for her child while she was on deployment to Afghanistan. The Army also handed the child over to Child Protective Services and now plans to fly the soldier to Afghanistan for court martial because she ...
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• Oligarchs-R-US

  
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  By Steve Hynd Peter Galbraith, who was recently in the news in a good way for slamming UN complicity in Afghan election corruption, is back in the news in a bad way. Galbraith, who was a signator of the PNAC letter calling for the invasion of Iraq and a major influence on the Iraqi constitution - which gave so much ...
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• "The Army is basically paying the Taliban not to shoot at them"

  
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  By Steve Hynd Todays must-read is by Aram Roston over at The Nation as he gets in-depth about a major part of the Talibans funding: "the US militarys contractors are forced to pay suspected insurgents to protect American supply routes" in deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars to contractors and Taliban ...
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• Report: NSC Given Until Friday To Come Up With Afghan Withdrawal Timetable

  
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  By Steve Hynd Spencer Ackerman has a great piece today based around a leaking staffer inside the National Security Councils deliberations on Afghnaistan strategy. The staffer noted that everyone at the NSC is annoyed with Ambassador Eikenberry for apparently leaking his own cables to Obama and confirms that the NSC ...
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• Afghan Escalation: Eikenberry Dissents, Obama Feels Railroaded By Military

  
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  By Steve Hynd Just as it seemed that all was hunky for the escalationists, US ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry has stuck his oar in the works. Both the NY Times and the Washington Post have the leaked story of secret cables from Eikenberry to the White House: expressing deep concerns about sending more ...
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• Shock, Liberals and Healthcare

  
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  By Dave Anderson: I have great respect for Ron but I think his shock argument to hope for a Senate progressive filibuster of the healthcare bill is a bad idea for a variety of reasons. The biggest one is that liberals have not demonstrated any recent capacity to effectively utilize a shock moment to implement ...
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• "We have tested all the assumptions"

  
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  By Steve Hynd Im loathe to link uber-dork Jake Tapper but he does have the story of the day : Senior administration officials tell ABC News that President Obama at his war council meeting tomorrow will assess four different specific strategies for Afghanistan and Pakistan, including two different options put ...
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• UKs New Afghan Tactic: Give Appearance Of Exit Strategy

  
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  By Steve Hynd With British public opinion now overwhelmingly against the occupation of Afghanistan following the deaths of five UK soldiers at the hands of an Afghan policeman last week, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has taken only seven days to do his own strategic review. Unsurprisingly, hes come up with a plan ...
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• James L. Jones: "Generals Always Ask For More Troops"

  
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  By Steve Hynd In a new interview with German mag Der Spiegel out today, Obamas National Security Adviser, Gen. James L. Jones, is sounding skeptical about the McChrystal escalation request for extra troops in Afghanistan. He says, dismissively, that "generals always ask for more troops". SPIEGEL: The Obama ...
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• New Afghan Compact Is A Clunker

  
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  By Steve Hynd The Obama administration has a new so-called Afghan Compact which is designed to increase good governance in Afghanistan and reduce corruption. The main problem, though, is that any compact needs two sides agreeing to implement it. The success of the so-called "Afghanistan Compact" will hinge on ...
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• Full Spectrum Dominance and COIN

  
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  By Dave Anderson: Robert Farley is optimistic and wrong in his argument that the US adapting a formal strategic emphasis on COIN will decrease the number of stupid wars that we get involved in. Here is his argument: Along these lines, I think its important to push back on a particular line of COIN critique: ...
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• The U.S. Sold Out Afghan Women To Misogynist Allies

  
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  By Steve Hynd Sonali Kolhatkar is co-director of the Afghan Womens Mission and has worked closely with RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) for almost a decade. She has an op-ed at Foreign Policy In Focus that should be read by everyone concerned about an occupation without end in ...
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• Leveraging Karzai And Outflanking Obama

  
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  By Steve Hynd Mother Jones David Corn, live-tweeting the White House presser as always, has just reported that Gibbs has refused to be drawn on specific anti-corruption measures the U.S. will demand of Hamid Karzai, saying only that the U.S. Embassy in Kabul was working on the matter. The trouble with the Embassy ...
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• In Wake Of Afghan Election Fiasco, COIN Becomes Colonialism

  
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  By Steve Hynd The Afghan Independent Electoral Commission stands revealed as not at all independent, as Dave noted earlier - declaring Karzai the victor in the presidential election without a run-off. That, as I understand it, isnt technically constitutional. They themselves were saying just the other day that it ...
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• The Villagers Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

  
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  By Steve Hynd Robert Naiman has a good catch over at Daily Kos today . He notes that, back in November last year, David Ignatius of the Washington Post wrote that he worried whether Obama had the strength of character to negotiate with the Taliban the way John McCain would and, should Obama falter, the only ...
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• Scary Stories From McChrystals Camp

  
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  By Steve Hynd Sean Naylor, staff writer of the Air Force Times, might be expected to be somewhat partisan, so Ill give him a partial pass on his latest article, channeling scary stories from McChrystals head of intelligence , Maj. Gen. Mike Flynn. However, what Flynn himself has to say is an outrageous spin of the ...
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• Interchangeable Quagmires

  
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  By Steve Hynd Lets try a little experiment. Who do you think wrote this? The current strategy is exactly what Al Qaeda wants—the United States distracted and pinned down by internal conflicts and trapped in a quagmire that has become the perfect rallying cry and recruitment tool for Al Qaeda. The United States ...
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• Clinton Tries To Spin Afghan Runoff Fiasco

  
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  By Steve Hynd Alternative post title: Spin, Spin As Fast As You Can... Yesterday, the BBC spoke to opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullahs senior adviser Ahmed Wali Massoud about the Afghan election run-off. He confirmed other reports by not-too-anonymous Western diplomats that Abdullah was thinking about ...
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• Theres many a slip between cup and lip

  
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  By Steve Hynd Or between paper and reality. HuffPos interview with NBC broadcaster Brian Williams in Kabul illustrates how the "force protection" paradigm wins out over well-meaning manuals and papers about "population-centric" COIN better than I ever could. HP: Theres all this talk of making the cities more ...
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