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• New Offensive in Helmand Province. But Why?

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  Today, the U.S. Marines kicked off a new push against bad guys in Afghanistans fertile and poppy-rich southern province. Per the AP: Gen. David Petraeus says the Marine Corps offensive launched Friday in southern Afghanistan is part of preparations for the arrival of 30,000 new U.S. reinforcements. Petraeus told ...
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• Our War, The Presidents War, This Is a War for Civilization

  
  The New Republic - the spine Feed — Authority: 124
  The Places In Between was my introduction to Afghanistan. Published in 2006, it was written by Rory Stewart, who at age 36 has already lived a life at once so adventurous and so quirky to defy easy narrative. He will soon take a safe (Tory) seat in the British parliament and rise quickly in the ranks, so quickly that ...
  4 days ago

• Key Democratic Senators Set Conditions for Supporting Climate Agreement

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 739
  Nine Democratic senators sent a letter to President Obama this morning laying out ten conditions that will allow them to support domestic and international climate deals. The senators, who all hail from manufacturing of fossil fuel-dependent states, are mostly moderates, and their votes will be crucial to passing a ...
  4 days ago

• Carl Levin’s warning

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 604
  WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged the Obama administration not to surge U.S. troops before accelerating their Afghan counterparts. That used to be the perspective of Defense Secretary Robert Gates as well. But, of course, President Obama did the ...
  5 days ago

• Mullen Concedes U.S. Will Hold Areas After Clearing Them, At Least At First

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) wants to know: There are 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, partnered with 1,500 Afghan soldiers. Does that make sense, given that it’s the reverse of an aspirational ratio of three Afghan companies to one U.S. company? Adm. Michael Mullen said that Levin’s numbers ...
  5 days ago

• Carl Levin’s Warning

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged the Obama administration not to surge U.S. troops before accelerating their Afghan counterparts. That used to be the perspective of Defense Secretary Robert Gates as well. But, of course, President Obama did the opposite, with ...
  5 days ago

• Key Senator Worried Obama Surge Will Only Make The Afghanistan Situation Worse

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 423
  A key Democratic senator is praising much of President Obamas thinking for a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, but is openly concerned that the introduction of increased American troops will only serve to exacerbate existing problems. The morning after Obama announced he would send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to ...
  5 days ago

• Obama’s Other Front: The Hill

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 712
  No matter what you think of it, the kind of troop increase that President Obama announced tonight is going to be expensive . With an estimated $1 billion dollar price tag for each additional thousand troops deployed, the new strategy will drive costs well above the $130 billion originally budgeted by the ...
  5 days ago

• Hoyer: No to the War Surtax

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 739
  Echoing the recent message from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters today that the middle of an employment crisis is no time to be slapping people with a new tax to fund the war in Afghanistan. I am not supporting it at this point in time, but I do support [the] ...
  6 days ago

• US troops increase as local hero says no – Afghanistan’s Malalai Joya

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 100
  Cairo correspondent Joseph Mayton for Women News Network – WNNHer name doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. But what makes Malalai Joya who she is has nothing to do with her name. It is the fact that the former Afghanistan Member of Parliament is not shy about speaking her mind. It has run her into [...]
  6 days ago

• Levin: Obama needs to connect the dots Tuesday

  
  CNN Political Ticker — Authority: 825
  Levin: Obama needs to connect the dots Tuesday. Washington (CNN) - There is an overriding theme to Sen. Carl Levins acceptance of President Obamas expected announcement that the United States will be sending upwards of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan: The chairman of the Armed Services Committee thinks ...
  1 week ago

• Still No Appetite to Share the Burdens of War

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Tax cuts in the middle of two wars are OK , but tax hikes to pay the freight of those wars would be irresponsible. That’s the message coming from Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), head of the Republican Study Committee, who told CNN this morning that a war surtax being proposed by Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) is “as cynical ...
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• Afghanistan: The “Dithering” Ends. The Soldiering Begins—Follow-Up

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 711
  In my “ Afghanistan: The ‘Dithering’ Ends. The Soldiering Begins ,” on president Obama’s Afghanistan address to the nation tomorrow night, I said, “President Obama’s deliberations and decisions, however, have gone far beyond just numbers.” I mentioned a few highlights on strategy, goals, benchmarks, ...
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• Financing The Costs Of War (Or Not)

  
  1115.org — Authority: 133
  For years, Democrats have complained about how George Bush and his band of merry men put two wars on the national charge card. About how, far from raising taxes or cutting non-military spending to cover the cost of his wars, Bush actually cut taxes and introduced a massive new domestic spending program, Medicare ...
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• Lawmakers From Both Parties Raise Concerns Over Afghan War Escalation

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 163
  The Huffington Post WASHINGTON - Sens. Carl Levin ( D-MI ) and Richard G. Lugar ( R-IN ) voiced their concerns Sunday about the war in Afghanistan, its cost, and the troop increase that President Obama is expected to announce on Tuesday. Sen. Levin, the leading Senate Democrat on military matters, said Sunday ...
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• Dem Senator: Afghan Forces, Not U.S., Are Key to Success

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 505
  Obamas anticipated plan for significantly expanding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan must show how those reinforcements will help increase the size of the Afghan security forces, Sen. Carl Levin says.
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• Not Going to Make the Rich Pay for War

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 163
  by BooMan The Booman Tribune I was encouraged when I learned that House Appropriations Chairman David Obey ( D-WI ) and Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin ( D-MI ) wanted to tax the wealthiest Americans to pay for any troop buildup in Afghanistan. We already have a situation where because our military ...
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• Levin: No Afghan War Tax In The Middle Of A Recession

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 805
  Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) said on Face the Nation today that he doesnt support a tax on middle-class Americans to help pay for the war in Afghanistan. "In the middle of a recession, were probably not going to be able to increase taxes to pay for it," he said. "There should have been, as far as Im concerned, tax ...
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• McChrystal’s Testimony: (Probably) Week of Dec. 7

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  It’s been one of the most anticipated moments of the Afghanistan debate in Washington: when the commander of U.S. and NATO forces will testify before Congress about the Obama administration’s strategy. Recall that earlier this fall, Republican members tried to bring Gen. Stanley McChrystal to the Hill ahead of ...
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• Lawmakers Fret About Counting on Afghans, Costs in Advance of Obama Speech

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 795
  Filed under: Nancy Pelosi , Afghanistan , Congress , Deficit As President Obama prepares to lay out his war strategy for Afghanistan, lawmakers on Capitol Hill today expressed concerns about the ability of the Afghan government and military to build on increased American support and the cost of sending ...
  1 week ago

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