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	<title>There Is No Plan &#187; Karzai</title>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Decision On Afghanistan &#8211; Bold Solutions Required</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s Afghan Dilemma is only vexing because it pits one conventional approach against another, when neither holds much hope for success. Both the COIN + CT approaches are what I call &#8220;perfect world&#8221; approaches. They rely on countless variables going right, and if history in Afghanistan has taught us anything, it&#8217;s that banking on anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk To the Taliban &#8211; Obama&#8217;s Divide and Rule Strategy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talking to moderate elements of the Taliban in order to undermine its unity is a great second prong of attack &#8211; to be combined with a more money-driven attack on Taliban control of Afghan opium. Obama was wise to caution that the complexities of Afghan tribal culture made the mapping of such talks much harder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobody Fights in Afghanistan and Wins.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a superficial perspective, the idea of diverting US forces to Afghanistan as we draw down troops in Iraq seems like a good idea. But Afghanistan is a deeply inhospitable, corrupt, backward, and highly unstable failed state with an almost feudal social structure. It&#8217;s been resisting modernity and foreign control for millenia. Before we do [...]]]></description>
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