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I’m on record not just opposing President Obama’s decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan, but calling for an end to it long before he became president. But the only thing I consider worse than his efforts to exploit the killing of Osama bin Laden for political gain is the patently disingenuous and hypocritical way Republicans are criticizing him for similar gain. More… Read more.
I have become a veritable Cassandra with my warnings about the folly of America’s involvement in Afghanistan. Instead of wondering why I keep beating this dead horse, however, my only wonder is why more people aren’t doing the same. After all, the killing of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan is even more senseless than the killing… Read more.
It is a fateful indication of how little progress the US has made in Afghanistan that President Obama had to deploy even more cloak and dagger maneuvers to visit there last weekend (over eight years into this war) than former President Bush did in 2006 (five years after launching it). And you’d think that having… Read more.
