12.19.09

Downward spiral in Afghanistan

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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/12/10/sorry_obama_afghanistans_your_vietnam?page=0,0

Foreign Policy Magazine
December 15, 2009
*Obama’s Indecent Interval
Despite the U.S. president’s pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan
looks more like Vietnam than ever.*

BY THOMAS H. JOHNSON, M. CHRIS MASON

As German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, truth is ridiculed,
then denied, and then “accepted as having been obvious to everyone from the
beginning.” So let’s start with the obvious: There isn’t the slightest
possibility that the course laid out by Barack Obama in his Dec. 1 speech
will halt or even slow the downward spiral toward defeat in Afghanistan.

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