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What Would Be The Result of Quitting AfPak?

I do not really agree with my question — assuming it is meant seriously. I think most of us feel we need to be operating in AfPak. But something is telling me to ask it. Here are my answers: 1. … Continue reading

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Taliban Bluster Downward Slope

TALIBAN BLUSTER The “leader” of the Taliban in Pakistan is an Osama wannabe named Baitullah Mehsud and he has just subtracted one digit from my personal Success Meter for the Obama Strategy for Afpak. The scale goes from 10 — … Continue reading

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Kennan Containment > Obama Foreign Policy 6

Continuing a series of posts based on the famous missive that helped define the United States position in the world following the Second World War. I am taking relevant sections of George Kennan’s “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” (1947) and … Continue reading

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Kennan Containment > Obama Foreign Policy 5

Continuing a series of posts based on the famous missive that helped define the United States position in the world following the Second World War. I am taking relevant sections of George Kennan’s “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” (1947) and … Continue reading

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Kennan Containment > Obama Foreign Policy 4

Continuing a series of posts based on the famous missive that helped define the United States position in the world following the Second World War. I am taking relevant sections of George Kennan’s “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” (1947) and … Continue reading

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