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...problem with trying to restrict troop levels and focus instead on accelerating the training of Afghan forces, as many skeptics of escalation have proposed, is that it offers the worst of both worlds. It would deny McChrystal the reinforcements he believes are essential to avoid defeat ("Resources will not win this war, but under-resourcing could lose it," says the general). But at the same time, it would do little to shield the President from criticism on the left that he is squandering American lives and treasure on an unwinnable...
...long as President Obama is unwilling to countenance a withdrawal in defeat, he may be tempted by the logic of an old British idiom on the metric of risk: "In for a penny, in for a pound...
...Despite well-founded fears of the rising cost of an open-ended war, Obama does not want to be the President who presided over a defeat in Afghanistan. In which case, his options are a lot narrower than the weeks of debate over the issue suggest, regardless of how the election debacle plays...
...brick quarters destined to be bulldozed and glimpsed the steel-and-glass materialist world that Chinese planners see rising above the rubble. Much of his work is suffused with a melancholy he allows to be dubbed "poetic." It is the picture, in many instances, of a people resigned to defeat...
...undertaken to defeat al-Qaeda is increasingly seen through the lens of these elections. In my home state of Vermont - where the National Guard is about to deploy to Afghanistan - people seek me out to ask why our soldiers should be fighting for a corrupt Afghan government clinging to power by fraud. I am quite sure the same question is being asked of political leaders in both the U.S. and Europe...