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I had an article in the Sunday Washington Post explaining why I think Gen. Petraeus faces a tougher challenge in Afghanistan in 2010 than he did in Iraq in 2007. Also, I was on Meet the Press yesterday with a whole cast of interesting characters — Sen. John McCain, Rep. Barbara Lee, retired Gen. Barry ...

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I had an article in the Sunday Washington Post explaining why I think Gen. Petraeus faces a tougher challenge in Afghanistan in 2010 than he did in Iraq in 2007. Also, I was on Meet the Press yesterday with a whole cast of interesting characters -- Sen. John McCain, Rep. Barbara Lee, retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, and handsome writers Wes Moore and Sebastian Junger.

I had an article in the Sunday Washington Post explaining why I think Gen. Petraeus faces a tougher challenge in Afghanistan in 2010 than he did in Iraq in 2007. Also, I was on Meet the Press yesterday with a whole cast of interesting characters — Sen. John McCain, Rep. Barbara Lee, retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, and handsome writers Wes Moore and Sebastian Junger.

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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