From Joe Klein’s good piece on Afghanistan: “Karzai is not incompetent,” a Western diplomat told me. “He...
Afghanistan
Jason’s 4/20 cri de coeur is well taken, but here’s a bit of hopeful news on the...
Scott recently raised some skepticism about the potential impact of the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar,...
Daniel Larison takes a few lumps for resisting knee-jerk opposition to the war in Afghanistan.
Elrod at The Moderate Voice, writing in response to criticisms of Obama’s Afghanistan strategy for setting a...
Scott’s recent post on President Obama’s decision re: Afghanistan is worth the read. He makes a number...
I was going to write a longer post on this, but one interesting consequence of Obama’s decision...
Damon Linker on appeals to common sense in American politics is worth reading, even if he overlooks...
Jonah Goldberg (among others) seems offended by the fact that Obama blames the situation in Afghanistan on...
Peter Feaver writing in the Shadow Gov’t blog does an e-squat and drops a steaming pile of...
A dialogue on Afghanistan worth watching.
Spencer Ackerman points me to this Tom Ricks post on David Kilcullen’s speech re: Afghanistan. Ricks on...
Jules Crittenden sneers at Ambassador Eikenberry’s recommendation not to deploy troops to Central Asia, noting “that Eikenberry...
I’m not sure if Daniel Larison’s latest column should be interpreted as an endorsement of McChrystal’s political...
Evan Thomas and John Barry at Newsweek take a look at (a) revisionist history of Vietnam, now...
The numbers of dead and wounded are different according to the source, but it looks like American...
New York Times: The nation’s top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask...
Well, apparently not Abdullah Abdullah. Meanwhile. the second round of Afghan elections–which were called after much US...
Part I here, Part II here. The Obama administration has proposed a very, very narrow objective, which...
For Part I here. So I’m breaking my own rules in this second post (a little bit). ...
