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Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

06/24/11

Our president, a prisoner of history, bravely confronts circumstances shaped by others. He praises himself for making 'one of the most difficult decisions I have made as President,' the launching of the 'surge' in which 30,000 more troops were sent to the supposedly neglected Afghan front. 'We set clear objectives,' he avers, and yet our ultimate goal was - and still is - obscured in murk: does anyone, including the President, know what victory looks like?

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/06/23/obama-soldiers-on/



The vice of interventionism

Freedom Politics
by George Will

06/23/11

Elevating the fallacy of the false alternative to a foreign policy, John McCain and a few others believe Republicans who oppose U.S. intervention in Libya's civil war - and who think a decade of warfare in Afghanistan is enough - are isolationists. This is less a thought than a flight from thinking, which involves making sensible distinctions...

http://tinyurl.com/5wwae6u



Mr. President, bring our soldiers home

Our Future Blog
by Isaiah J. Poole

06/22/11

In his speech, the president set the right direction and tone, but not the right level of urgency. The schedule he laid out means there will still be 68,000 troops fighting the longest war this nation has ever fought in the fall of 2012...

http://tinyurl.com/63rayqo



Obama fails to outline sensible Afghan drawdown

The Nation Blog
by Robert Dreyfuss

06/23/11

President Obama said a lot of the right things last night, but the numbers don t add up. More important, in his too-brief, almost throwaway address to the nation, he failed to articulate any rationale for his current policy. By keeping up to 90,000 troops in Afghanistan this year, and nearly 70,000 through next fall, what does Obama hope to accomplish? Sad to say, it looks like he hopes to accomplish his re-election...

http://tinyurl.com/68plnrj



How about a real 'drawdown?'

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

06/22/11

Despite all of the White House?s solemn talk of drawdowns and 'sustainability here at home,' the changes we are supposed to regard as big news take place on the narrowest margins of United States foreign policy. Way out on the periphery of the neocolonialist agenda, a negligible tweak here or there is quite acceptable to the state capitalist elite, for whom there is never a real danger. Policy shifts - even personnel changes - occur within a framework where the underlying assumptions of empire are taken for granted, and where an entire economy has been built upon what Dwight Eisenhower famously dubbed the 'military-industrial complex'...

http://c4ss.org/content/7573


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A Real Pullout or a Shell Game?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/26-1



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