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The US is ‘winding down’ the Afghanistan war by pulling out regular troops and boosting the number Special Forces. Gosh, that should work. Three things. 1) You just knew this whole new “combat mission ends in 2013, troops out by 2014″ was election-year spin, didn’t you? 2) This is yet another example of how special [...] Glastonbury 2011. This is amazing and inspiring. Thank you Jimmy. Lyrics Hey, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Afghanistan, Afghanistan Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Yesterday I got a letter from my friend fighting in Afghanistan And this is what he had to say “Tell all my friends that I’ll be coming home soon My time’ll be up some [...] I’d like to unpack a little American zeitgeist for you on the Afghan war. A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 64% of Americans now think the war in Afghanistan has not been worth fighting; and an even more overwhelming 73% want a “substantial number of U.S. combat forces” to withdraw this summer. [...] The Afghanistan Study Group, a bipartisan group of public policy analysts recently conducted a survey which found that self-identified conservative and Tea Party voters are very concerned about the costs of continued nation-building in Afghanistan. The survey found that 71% of conservative voters are concerned about the price tag of continued war in Afghanistan and [...] Discussion of the Influential left-wing ideas (good, bad, and not influential enough) post from BobFromBrockley that has been widely re-blogged. Plus, Afghanistan war. With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, and Josh Mull of Firedoglake & Rethink Afghanistan and myself. Listen to the show on BlogTalkRadio. Download the mp3. [...] Large numbers of people say they believe in American Exceptionalism. But how does that help us solve any of our very real and growing problems? Plus it can lead to overconfidence and arrogance, such as the various wars we are not winning. Also, politicians on both parties often use this as a ploy to [...] Winning their hearts and minds in Vietnam It didn’t work in Vietnam and it’s not working in Afghanistan either. What are they thinking? Destroying villages and killing non-combatants will just make the locals want to join an insurgency – or expose the CIA station head. [...] Click to listen to the podcast on BlogTalkRadio Josh Mull talks about the Afghanistan strategy review, the third of Obama’s Administration, where the withdrawal date got moved forward from 2014 to June 2011. This could indicate the elites now understand the war is no longer winnable, even as we carpet bomb that country and [...] Massive fraud in Afghan elections shows U.S. policy is a farce. Polizeros contributor Josh Mull is in Kabul now as an election observer. We plan to interview him when he gets back. He just did a quick update to Newshoggers on The “Anti-War Left” And The Afghanistan Study Group. The Left is not anti-war. Most [...] From Brave New Films listserv. Full info on their Facebook Rethink Afghanistan page. With all the drama around General McChrystal’s resignation, the media missed the real story in the explosive Rolling Stone article: “…[W]e’re f****ing losing this thing.” –Staff Sergeant Kennith Hicks Administration officials are frantically trying to reassure Congress and the [...] |  | ||||
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