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Maya Schenwar: Truthout: "Last week, with President-elect Obama's blessing, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the beginning of a troop 'surge' in Afghanistan. As the US embarks on a slow redeployment of troops away from the widely condemned occupation of Iraq - though that occupation is not by any means ending - it is easy to frame Afghanistan as a milder war, a war that can even, perhaps, be 'won.' However, sending more American forces to Afghanistan is a peculiar first project for a supposedly peacemaking president-elect, according to Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents, and has written extensively on US interventionism around the world."

http://www.truthout.org/121608R



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