Things That Are Bad For America

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• McChrystal Tells Afghans No Early US Exit

  
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  By Steve Hynd General Stan McChrystal is signalling to the Afghan leadership that Obamas 2011 "beginning of the end" is just a number they shouldnt take seriously. The top US military commander in Afghanistan has met senior politicians there as part of a charm offensive to sell Barack Obama’s new strategy. ...
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• Another 3,000 on top of 30,000 surge?

  
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  By Steve Hynd Let the incremetal escalation continue ! Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he asked the president for flexibility on the number in case military commanders in the field request additional medics or troops trained to detect improvised explosive devices. Gates told a Senate committee Thursday that ...
  17 hours ago

• The private contractor escalation in Afghanistan outnumbers the US militarys

  
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  By Steve Hynd Justin Elliot at TPM has done sterling work getting some figures out of the DoD on the number of private security contractors in Afghanistan. The latest figure on DOD contractors in the country is a whopping 104,100, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command tells TPM. That number, which is expected to ...
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• Obamas 2011 "beginning of the end" is a crock

  
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  By Steve Hynd Today, both US SecDef Bob Gates and UK prime minister Gordon Brown revealed that Obamas announcement of a 2011 "beginning of the end" - and Browns earlier announcement of a 2010 date for starting a British withdrawal - were simply PR statements intended to soften public perceptions of an occupation ...
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• Obama Bombed On Afghanistan

  
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  By Steve Hynd Whether they be pro-occupation neoliberals, anti-occupation realist conservatives, or any of the other various permutations, the overall opinion of pundits seems to be that Obamas speech stank on ice. It wasnt one of his best performances by a long chalk. He seemed at times visibly angry at the ...
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• Good friends and dumb decisions

  
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  By Dave Anderson In my experience, good friends help their good friends avoid amazingly and predictably dumb decisions before those decisions are made. Several years ago, I was the best man for a good friend. I was in charge of the bachelor party. After the 2nd bar of the night, I made the executive decision to ...
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• Progressivism & Escalation: Two Ships Colliding In The Night

  
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  By Steve Hynd Spencer Ackerman does a great job of being an impartial journalist so he shouldnt come in for too much mocking, but hes posted his own position on the Afghanistan escalation in a way that needs to be mentioned and mocked just once. The post is titled "I Guess I Should Say Where My Head Is At On ...
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• Obama Uses Bush Rhetoric To Support Military-Industrial Donors

  
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  By Steve Hynd Glenn Greenwald has a post on Obama and his supporters use of exactly the same rhetoric on his Afghanistan escalation as Bush and his pro-war cheerleaders used to justify Iraq. Its impossible to excerpt so just go read it. Everything old and Dubya is new again and to be given a thin gloss of "change ...
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• Training the trainers

  
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  By Dave Anderson: Training the trainers is a high value activity for consultants and specialists.  Being able to impart knowledge and the structure to students to effectively redeliver and expand the knowledge sphere is a tough skill set.  It looks like the US policy of training paramilitary forces for counter-drug ...
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• Lugar: War More Important Than Uninsured

  
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  By Steve Hynd While were talking about Afghanistan and humanitarian considerations, how about this ? Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, said he was wary of strict benchmarks that put both sides in an untenable situation if theyre not met. But he said an early ...
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• How Come Hawks Only Care About Human Rights When Theres A War To Hype?

  
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  By Steve Hynd Ben Smith at Politico is responsible for a piece that really ticked me off today. As President Barack Obama prepares to make the case for sending more troops to Afghanistan, some allies are urging him to return to a line of argument little heard since the Bush years: the United States has a ...
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• From "Big Tent" To Gated Community

  
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  By Steve Hynd Its rare for me to agree with Kathleen Parker. Even her criticism of Sarah Palin as " out of her league " didnt go far enough - Parker should have said "out of her mind". But when it comes to the GOPs new "purity test" , she isnt entirely wrong. some conservative members of the party have come up ...
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• IAEA Board Censures Iran, Sanctions May Not Be So Easy

  
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  By Steve Hynd With any Iranian nuclear fuel swap deal seemingly DOA , the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency has swiftly passed a vote condemning Iran for not being forthcoming enough in answering charges  derived from the dodgy Laptop of Death and has called upon Iraq to close the Qom "hole in a ...
  6 days ago

• Getting Up To Date On: Pakistan

  
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  By Steve Hynd Weve already covered some of the news on Afghanistan readers might have missed over Thanksgiving. Now, what about its neighbour Pakistan? Well, the big pre-Turkey story was Jeremy Scahills expose of the involvement of a Blackwater subsiduary in gathering intelligence, drone operation and covert ...
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• Getting Up To Date On: Afghanistan

  
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  By Steve Hynd We hope all our American readers had a good Thanksgiving. But the news keeps rolling on despite holidays, so its time to play catch-up with foreign policy and affairs. Lets start with Afghanistan and the ongoing U.S.-led occupation there. With Obamas speech on his new Afghanistan strategy due on ...
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• The absurdity of "responsibilty"

  
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  By Dave Anderson: In a non-cooperative, multi-iteration game, the best strategy to ensure cooperation or at least non-douchebag behavior is tit for tat.  This means make a choice that punishes the opposition for being a douchebag when they previously made a choice to be douchebags, and make a choice that rewards ...
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• The Anti-torture canaries are dying

  
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  By Dave Anderson: The Obama Administration pinched several excellent bloggers for mid-level staff positions earlier this year. I approved of those decisions as I had read Phil Carter and the Balkinization crew for years and I trusted both their judgment and their integrity, especially on the matter of realigning our ...
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• Blackwater in Pakistan: But What Did The I.S.I. Know?

  
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  By Steve Hynd Our good friend Jeremy Scahill broke a truly massive story yesterday at The Nation . At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in ...
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• 34,000 Troops and the Wuss Factor

  
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  By Steve Hynd McClatchy has the scoop - President Obama will announce on Dec 1 that he will order 34,000 additional troops sent to Afghanistan. As it now stands, the plan calls for the deployment over a nine-month period beginning in March of three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, ...
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• Palin And The Apocalypse

  
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  By Steve Hynd The scariest domestic political story of the day is this one: " Matters of faith, politics on table as Palin visits Graham " "Hes followed her career and likes her strong stand on faith," said son Franklin Graham, who was present for the 2 1/2-hour get-together. "Daddy feels God was using her to ...
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