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Chris Good

Chris Good - Chris Good is a political reporter for ABC News. He was previously an associate editor at The Atlantic and a reporter for The Hill.

Democrats Never Meant What They Said About Afghanistan

By Chris Good
Sep 23 2009, 9:52 AM ET Comment

An astonishingly honest assessment -- one that I fear is accurate -- from the lefty blog Hullabaloo:

Escalation is a bad idea. The Democrats backed themselves into defending the idea of Afghanistan being The Good War because they felt they needed to prove their macho bonafides they called for withdrawal from Iraq. Nobody asked too many questions sat the time, including me. But none of us should forget that it was a political strategy, not a serious foreign policy...


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