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More Troops in Afghanistan
After a lengthy
deliberation, President Obama ordered 30,000 troops try to secure freedom and
democracy in the country and also pledged to begin to drawback by 2011.
Clive Crook: The speech contradicted itself. You cannot argue, as he tried to, that (a) this is a war America must win to safeguard its own security, and (b) whether the U.S. is winning or not, the troops will start to come home in 2011.
Marc Ambinder: The reaction from Democratic members of Congress—those with actual power—seems to be just favorable enough.
Jeffrey Goldberg: Who could have known that Barack Obama would double-down in Afghanistan? Only people who listened to Barack Obama.
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