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Despite 2009 “Surge” Taliban Remains Force to be Reckoned with in Afghanistan

From On November 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Foreign Policy’s Stephen Walt highlights a chart by Belfer Center fellow Matt Waldman showing that as the US-led 2009 “Surge” in Afghanistan proceeded, US casualties increased. The pace in 2012 is also roughly similar to the toll from the previous two years:

Equally important, the final column (based on figures [...]

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Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza

From On September 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Total Tops Iraq at That War’s Height

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By Nick Turse

via Tom Dispatch

Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten “stimulus packages” of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped in at enormous expense to no [...]

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U.S. Afghanistan Commander: ‘The United States Is Going To Be Here For Some Period Of Time’

From On October 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Reposted by arrangement with Think Progress

In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, the U.S. military commander atop international forces in Afghanistan said U.S. forces would not be leaving the war-torn Central Asian country any time soon. The comments by Gen. John Allen, who took command of the International Security Assistance Force [...]

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The Dishonesty of Jennifer Rubin (Con't, ad nauseam)

From On January 24, 2011 · 5 Comments

Jennifer Rubin has spent much time advocating for escalating U.S. measures on Iran. At Commentary, she called a U.S. attack on the Islamic Republic the “best of the disagreeable options.” Now, at the Post, Rubin seems to have softened this view, calling for “more fruitful actions.”

But Rubin’s reporting on Iran issues often [...]

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