Ezra Klein Archive: Afghanistan
Why 30,000 troops?
The more I chew over it, the more I think my dissatisfaction with last night's speech was that it was an argument for a strategy in Afghanistan, not this strategy in Afghanistan. Take the 30,000 troops. "The 30,000 additional...
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December 2, 2009; 3:27 PM ET |
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Lunch break
Rory Stewart, a British diplomat, author and, now, parliamentary candidate, is the author of “The Places in Between,” a book based on walking the full length of Afghanistan. This is the first part of a lecture he gave on Afghanistan...
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December 2, 2009; 12:30 PM ET |
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Doesn't taxing the Afghanistan war work against stimulus?
Responding to my support for a surtax to fund the war in Afghanistan, Ostap asks, "aren't you one of those people who regularly proclaim that opponents of the so-called stimulus package are nuts, and that in fact we should have...
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December 2, 2009; 10:41 AM ET |
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Afghanistan and the Iraq surge
Daniel Drezner has a good post critiquing analogical thinking on wars. Comparing the war in Afghanistan to the war in Vietnam or the surge in Iraq is flawed, he says. The Obama administration has been at pains to signal...
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December 2, 2009; 10:11 AM ET |
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Obama's Afghanistan speech
My first thought watching Obama's speech last night was to wonder whether he'd borrowed Bush's speechwriter for the evening. But the mirrored rhetoric is to be expected, I guess. This is a policy that Bush could have announced, too....
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December 2, 2009; 8:47 AM ET |
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Obey's war surtax would cover 6% of war spending -- but Congress thinks even that's too much
David Obey's effort to fund the expansion of the Afghanistan war with a surtax is running into some opposition. Evan Bayh, who generally presents himself as a paragon of fiscal rectitude, flatly said it's not going to happen. "National security...
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December 1, 2009; 3:39 PM ET |
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