NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mark Steyn June 26, 2010 7:01 A.M. The Unengaged President Obama’s lack of interest in the world is evident in his handling of the oil spill and the Afghan War. What do General McChrystal and British Petroleum have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re both Democratic-party supporters.
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JUNE 25, 2010 Petraeus’s Opportunity His selection reassures our Afghan allies that the U.S. will not begin substantial troop reductions until the Afghans can handle the insurgents on their own. By MARK MOYAR The firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal has ended the career of an outstanding military leader and the only American to forge a
JUNE 28, 2010 Petraeus and Obama’s Uncertain Trumpet There is a mismatch between the general’s Afghan mission and the president’s summons to his countrymen. By FOUAD AJAMI The chroniclers tell us that Lyndon Johnson never took to the Vietnam War. He prosecuted it, it became his war, but it was, in LBJ’s language, a “bitch
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The following is a letter from Ben, a soldier our group of conservative ladies have been in contact with for over a year. This is his last letter as his assignmnent in Afghanistan is over: So here I sit in Kyrgyzstan at Manas Air Base safely out of the war torn Afghanistan. I take pause
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Adam Goldman LaBonte’s family had promised him they wouldn’t talk about his work. They kept that pledge as they mourned in private after he died along with six other CIA employees and a Jordanian intelligence officer in the suicide bombing at a U.S. base in Afghanistan in late December. Even now, months after his burial,
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JUNE 2, 2010 Strategy vs. Tactics in Afghanistan By ANN MARLOWE Gen. Stanley McChrystal has embraced Hamid Karzai as part of the Obama administration’s startling about-face on the Afghan president. Until recently, the Obama team seemed to understand that Mr. Karzai was “not an adequate strategic partner,” in the well-chosen words of our ambassador (and
APRIL 23, 2010 The Meaning of the Korengal Retreat By BING WEST In 2006, the United States sent a company of men into a sparsely populated, steep-sided valley called the Korengal in northeastern Afghanistan. It was part of a new counterinsurgency strategy aimed at stopping fighters from coming across the nearby Pakistan border and at
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April 9, 2010 By FOUAD AJAMI President Obama’s “war of necessity” in Afghanistan increasingly has to it the mark of a military campaign disconnected from a bigger political strategy. Yes, it is true, he “inherited” this war. But in his fashion he embraced it and held it up as a rebuke to the Iraq war.
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APRIL 10, 2010 By ANN MARLOWE Kabul ‘Americans should know that in the people of Afghanistan, you have a partner. Not all of our people will be as disgraceful as some of your beneficiaries.” Abdullah Abdullah is referring to an April 2 speech by President Hamid Karzai that shook up even the normally complacent Obama
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK APRIL 7, 2010 The Karzai Fiasco Echoes of Vietnam in a spat that only helps the Taliban. President Obama isn’t faring too well at converting enemies to friends, but he does seem to have a talent for turning friends into enemies. The latest spectacle is the all-too-public and counterproductive war of words
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