Interpreting Afghanistan
Boston Globe
by H.D.S. Greenway
06/01/10
Reading carefully between the lines of President Obama’s speech at West Point last year, in which he laid out his war plans, I thought I heard an echo of Mikhail Gorbachev when he told his generals that they had a couple of years to turn things around in Afghanistan. If they couldn’t, Russia’s army would come home. One saw ambiguity in Obama’s thoughts when he ordered a troop surge, only to say he would begin withdrawing in the summer of 2011. Oh, the caveats were quickly made that he had meant only the beginning of a withdrawal, and that circumstances would dictate its pace. But the damage was done for those careful listeners in Kabul, Islamabad, New Delhi, and the countries in the region. The United States might be surging, but the country wasn’t in for a hundred-year effort to establish a protectorate as the British had done more than a century before...
http://tinyurl.com/26ycvv5
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Terror link alleged as Saudi millions flow into Afghanistan war zone:
Millions of dollars of Saudi Arabian money have flowed into Afghanistan over the past four years, the country's intelligence officials say, with the sponsorship of terrorism its most likely use.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7140745.ece
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=H.D.S.+Greenway
by H.D.S. Greenway
06/01/10
Reading carefully between the lines of President Obama’s speech at West Point last year, in which he laid out his war plans, I thought I heard an echo of Mikhail Gorbachev when he told his generals that they had a couple of years to turn things around in Afghanistan. If they couldn’t, Russia’s army would come home. One saw ambiguity in Obama’s thoughts when he ordered a troop surge, only to say he would begin withdrawing in the summer of 2011. Oh, the caveats were quickly made that he had meant only the beginning of a withdrawal, and that circumstances would dictate its pace. But the damage was done for those careful listeners in Kabul, Islamabad, New Delhi, and the countries in the region. The United States might be surging, but the country wasn’t in for a hundred-year effort to establish a protectorate as the British had done more than a century before...
http://tinyurl.com/26ycvv5
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Terror link alleged as Saudi millions flow into Afghanistan war zone:
Millions of dollars of Saudi Arabian money have flowed into Afghanistan over the past four years, the country's intelligence officials say, with the sponsorship of terrorism its most likely use.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7140745.ece
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=protectorate
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=H.D.S.+Greenway
rudkla - 1. Jun, 09:16
