The debate on Afghanistan
If you want to keep up with the debate on Afghanistan, you should obviously be reading FP‘s AfPak Channel. But here are a few other items of special note: 1. Chairman of the JCS Admiral Mike Mullen thinks we need more troops and more time. Some key Senators are skeptical. To watch the actual hearings, ...
If you want to keep up with the debate on Afghanistan, you should obviously be reading FP‘s AfPak Channel. But here are a few other items of special note:
1. Chairman of the JCS Admiral Mike Mullen thinks we need more troops and more time. Some key Senators are skeptical. To watch the actual hearings, go here.
2. A new CATO Institute report on how to get out.
3. An open letter from the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy on why Obama should rethink his Afghan “strategy.” (Full disclosure: I’m one of the signatories).
4. What Sarah Palin and the guys who thought invading Iraq was a good idea think now. For some reason the phrase “caveat emptor” springs to mind.
5. Tom Englehardt is skeptical of benchmarks, but offers a long list of his own.
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Stephen M. Walt is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University. Twitter: @stephenwalt
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