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Saturday, February 11th, 2012

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Remember When Conservatives Distrusted the Generals?

By | 11.30.09 | 10:55 am

Dave’s insightful post on the Republicans’ Afghanistan strategy — try to use Gen. Stanley McChrystal as a cudgel against President Obama — is a good guide to next week’s testimony from the commander of the Afghanistan war. But when Bill Kristol frames the war as something conducted by McChrystal More…

Eliot Cohen Lays Into Obama at COIN Conferencce

By | 09.23.09 | 9:21 am

At a conference on leadership in counterinsurgency at the National Press Club sponsored by Marine Corps University, Eliot Cohen, the respected Johns Hopkins scholar who advised Condoleezza Rice at the tail end of the Bush administration, slowly and steadily built up a critique of the Obama administration on Afghanistan. Obama’s More…