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  • Kennedy Graham

    Afghanistan’s Agony: What in the world to do?



    Afghanistan gets progressively worse.  The US President is caught in a vice-like grip between personal judgment and political constraint.  Having characterised Afghanistan as a war of necessity to escape a war of choice (Iraq), he cannot exit early.  Yet a late exit becomes a quagmire.  He thus equivocates over the military’s request for another surge, [...] read more
    November 6, 2009 12:25 pm - 29 Comments