Ezra Klein Archive: Afghanistan
Humility in Afghanistan
Joe Klein's got a good column on Afghanistan this week that begins with an anecdote from a different part of Gen. McChrystal's now-famous speech: A few weeks ago, a well-known U.S. military expert gave a wise speech about the near...
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October 9, 2009; 5:15 PM ET |
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Success?
Is this the long-awaited definition of success? Improving the Afghan government, McChrystal says -- particularly the effectiveness of its security forces and its ability to deliver basic services to the population -- is as critical as offensive actions against insurgents....
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September 21, 2009; 3:50 PM ET |
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The Manager in Afghanistan
Gen. Stanley McChrystal wants more troops for Afghanistan. And of course he does: He's the general in charge of Afghanistan. Which is to say, he's a person in charge of something. Neil Sinhababu explains: It's generally hard to know...
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September 21, 2009; 1:17 PM ET |
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Glass Half Full
Fareed Zakaria looks on the bright side in Afghanistan. It is worth reminding ourselves that Afghanistan is not in free fall. The number of civilian deaths, while grim, is less than a tenth the number in Iraq in 2006. In...
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September 14, 2009; 11:29 AM ET |
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Opposing Afghanistan With Emphasis
George Will's column today has so many italicized words, and so many of them in weird places, that I actually went back and read them in order to try and detect a secret message. Alas, there's no secret message: He...
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September 1, 2009; 5:36 PM ET |
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What Does "Victory" Mean?
Monday's op-ed by Anthony Cordesman is titled "How to Lose in Afghanistan." In it, he uses the word "victory" three times. He uses the word "win" four time. He also mentions losing, and defeat. But nowhere does he define what...
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August 31, 2009; 3:19 PM ET |
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