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• Instant Reaction: Bloggingheads Style

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 706
  Last night, I diavlogged with Matt Duss on the subject of the Obama speech: As this suggests , Im pretty ambivalent about the escalation.
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• The Big Os speechifying on Afghanistan

  
  Its my Right to be Left of the Center — Authority: 128
   Where do you think his speech was on the Bullshit Meter? Off the fucking charts. Well, what did you think of his plan man? Same shit, different President. Did ya think he sold it to the majority of Americans? Oh hell no. Do ya think its a war worth fighting for another eight fucking years? Not only no ...
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• Obamas Overseas Contingency Operations "Escalates"

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 446
  http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1202/csmimg/ABIGSPEECH_P1.jpg . Announced a "surge" of 30,000 troops. .
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• Obama Announces 30K More Troops for Afghanistan

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  President Barack Obama addresses cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday night. (Sharkpixs/ZUMA Press) In a decision that may define his presidency, Barack Obama on Tuesday night announced the deployment of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by next summer in the hopes of bringing a ...
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• Unfinished business: Obamas case for renewed effort in AfPak

  
  xpostfactoid — Authority: 494
  A few structural notes on Obamas speech at West Point laying out his strategy for Afghanistan: 1) Obama made an interesting dual use of the U.S. experience in Iraq.  First, he used it to explain why "the situation has deteriorated in Afghanistan" --  because "Throughout this period [of Taliban resurgence] our ...
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• Obama’s Speech on Afghanistan

  
  Axis of Right — Authority: 131
  Here’s what I took from the President’s speech tonight on the future of the War in Afghanistan: “The common security of the world is at stake” says the President, but we’re getting out in 18 months because it’s a rather pricey endeavor.  OK, Taliban and al Qaeda types, just wait until July 2011 and ...
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• Excellent Speech Mr. President

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 641
  As the father of a newly minted Marine Lance Corporal who will, in all likelihood, deploy to Afghanistan sometime in the coming year I hope people appreciate this post. As I watched our President’s speech tonight I saw for the first time the office of the President settle upon Barack Obama’s shoulders. It was a ...
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• Afghan Human Rights Official Criticizes McChrystal ‘Tribes’ Initiative

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  A U.S. Army soldier communicates with an Afghan villager (U.S. Army photo) An official with the Afghan government’s human rights commission is blasting an important new U.S. military initiative in Afghanistan as a potential road to warlordism. The new program, known as the Community Defense Initiative, seeks to ...
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• Obama Eventually Makes the Right Call in Afghanistan

  
  Babeled - six guys who have never been in your kitchen — Authority: 123
  The record will show that I am certainly no fan of the O-bomb.  But while I would gladly take part in another political flogging of the president, I will give him credit for his decision to send reinforcements to Afghanistan. Obama’s decision was certainly a pleasant surprise to me.  By this time I would have ...
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• Obama’s Afghanistan Speech

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 694
  President Obama’s speech tomorrow night, in which he finally announces his Afghan strategy and responds to General McChrystal’s September request for more troops for Afghanistan, will be closely watched by the American public, our NATO Allies, foreign leaders, and the people of Afghanistan and the region. I sat ...
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• Film: The Surge, The Untold Story

  
  Feral Jundi — Authority: 139
  Understanding the Surge from ISW on Vimeo .
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• Stop the Surge - Time to head home

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 120
  Thius editorial, by Eugene Robinson, was published by the Washington Post, November 13, 2009 The most dreadful burden of the presidency -- the power to send men and women to die for their country -- seems to weigh heavily on Barack Obama these days. He went to Dover Air Force Base to salute the coffins of fallen ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Cmon Obama, Lets have a real buildup in Afghanistan!

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 120
  This article, by Richard Lee, was posted to The Rag Blog, November 11, 2009 To Barack Obama: Let’s have a military buildup! You can show those crazy-ass generals at the Pentagon that you aren’t just a chicken-shit weenie from Harvard. You gotta do it right, however. Stop waffling about a measly 40,000 or 44,000 ...
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• "You can take that to the bank": BHO in 2007: I will end the war

  
  All This Is That — Authority: 431
  BHO on the campaign trail in 2007 explains how the first thing he will do in office is end the war. Two years later, he ponders just how much to expand the war in Afghanistan, and no doubt, any other Stans that need a tune-up. ---o0o---
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Army says morale down among troops in Afghanistan

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 120
  This article, by Pauline Jelinek, was poublished by the Sacramento Bee, November 13, 2009 Morale has fallen among soldiers in Afghanistan, where troops are seeing record violence in the 8-year-old war, while those in Iraq show much improved mental health amid much lower violence, the Army said Friday. Soldier ...
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• IVAW News - Stopping by the barracks: GI Michael Kern hands Obama IVAW letter

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 120
  This article, by Victor Agosto, was posted to the Rag Blog, November 11, 2009 President Obama visited Fort Hood today [Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009]. He dropped by Michael Kerns barracks. Michael handed President Obama a letter, saying, "Sir, IVAW has some concerns wed like for you to address." Obama then dropped his hand ...
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• ‘The Surge’ Shows That Numbers Matter

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 795
  While President Barack Obama  prepares to discuss potential military strategies  for the war in Afghanistan today, the nation prepares to honor veterans of our nation’s wars. On the Monday before Veterans Day, the nonprofit, nonpartisan  Institute for the Study of War  took a constructive look at major military ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - We Will Not Solve the Problem with Troops Alone

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 120
  This interview, with National Security Adviser General James Jones, was published by Spiegel Online International, November 9, 2009 US National Security Adviser James L. Jones talks to SPIEGEL about his skepticism regarding calls for more US troops to be sent to Afghanistan, the chances of Pakistans nuclear ...
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• A Sweet Papa

  
  The Girl Who — Authority: 125
  Because hell never do it himself Im going to toot Serges horn for him. And no, Serge, thats not a euphemism for a "blowy" . Someone was kind enough to scan his Esquire article online. If youd like to read it click here for the first page and here for the second page.
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• A Chat About The Good Soldiers

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  David Finkel talks about his book, "The Good Soldiers," based on eight months in Iraq with a battalion sent as part of the surge.
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