by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Friday, January 13, 2012
If the LA Times is accurate (and they have the best reporting on the middle east of any American newspaper), the [new National Intelligence Estimate of the war in Afghanistan] is going to be very damaging to the war effort...
The Washington Post story on further fraying U.S.-Pakistani relations in the aftermath of last week’s border firefight in which U.S. forces killed 24 Pakistani soldiers contains a startling revelation...
From 2007 to 2009, a surge of 20,000 troops under the generalship of David Petraeus saved a mostly lost war in Iraq...By 2009, Afghanistan was spiraling out of control and seemed in need of a similar troop surge...Why hasn't the surge worked as well as it did in Iraq...?
