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Guantanamo ‘Recidivist’ Is Hanging Out With Hamid Karzai

By | 07.09.09 | 9:26 am

There’s no shortage of demagoguery about the Guantanamo Bay detainee cohort, regardless of how many times reason tries to prevail. Among the worst is the dubious and often-recycled claims about inflated numbers of released Guantanamo detainees who’ve “returned” to the battlefield. It’s unwise to More…

Withdrawal Is Victory

By | 06.26.09 | 9:53 am

Yesterday’s Pentagon briefing featured a telling exchange about Iraq between a reporter (whom I think was McClatchy’s Nancy Youssef) and  spokesman Geoff Morrell. If the United States is on pace to withdraw from Iraq, the reporter wanted to know, wasn’t the United States declaring victory? Morrell came up with a More…