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Sorting out Obama on Afghanistan

Turns out that the Daily Beast reads this blog too. They asked me to elaborate on my concerns about President Obama’s handling of Afghanistan, so I wrote this, which ran yesterday. This also may answer some of the plaintive posts of yesterday asking me to ‘splain myself.   U.S. Army/flickr

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Turns out that the Daily Beast reads this blog too. They asked me to elaborate on my concerns about President Obama’s handling of Afghanistan, so I wrote this, which ran yesterday. This also may answer some of the plaintive posts of yesterday asking me to ‘splain myself.  

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1
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