February 3, 2010
“We were attacked treacherously. We came under fire from everywhere, but the rules of engagement prevent me from doing my job.” The utterly wrongheaded policy that has American troops in Afghanistan devoting the bulk of their time to hearts-and-minds initiatives and to behaving like social workers is…killing American troops. When America pretends to have no [...]
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January 29, 2010
More than 60 delegations, from Colombia to Australia, gathered in Lancaster House this morning to draw up an exit strategy from Afghanistan. Much of it is based on reintegrating the Taleban rank and file, wooing the Taleban leadership and gradually handing security to the Afghan Army and police. (How do you reintegrate something that was [...]
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