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11.16.2009 4:38 pm

Afghan exit strategy is another futile liberal exercise

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It’s time to remove the inscription over the door to the Post-Dispatch editorial board room. “Bury them in bunkum” has run it’s course.

“Afghan strategy: Exit” (11/13) is simply another futile liberal exercise in beating a dead horse with a Nerf…

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11.10.2009 6:29 pm

Dithering and blithering

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Well, Dick Cheney is at it again. Obama didn’t act swiftly enough in his eyes to add 40,000 additional troops to those already serving in Afghanistan. “Dithering” he said of Obama’s rational reflection. Yet, Bush/Cheney had a knee jerk (emphasis…
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11.06.2009 5:12 pm

How many more un-constitutional wars will it take?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I wonder how many Americans remember being taught to beware of False Prophets? I find it amazing how easy our political an corporate leaders lay the blame for failed un-conational wars at the feet of We The People. Maybe it…

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11.03.2009 5:40 pm

We missed our chance in Afghanistan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I couldn’t agree more with the letter in today’s Opinion section of the Post that was written by J.M. Haas than if I had written it myself.

Afghanistan is a political and social quagmire of gigantic proportions and the people of…

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11.02.2009 1:59 pm

Promoting war in little-understood countries

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It seems to me, those at the Pentagon promote wars in countries they barely understand, countries whose history they flat-out ignore, at great cost to the rest of us. As it was in Vietnam and Iraq, now being repeated in…

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10.16.2009 4:47 pm

There is no “best practices” path for Afghanistan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The much thrown around phrase “nation-building” appearing in Bob Herbert’s column led me to some tangential thought. The phrase, too often attached to our past interventionist goals around the world, suggests need for profound changes, as f what exists does…

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10.07.2009 5:08 pm

We can win the war in Afghanistan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Having served overseas in the Middle East as an adviser to US Forces on the ground I am concerned with the recent arguments being haphazardly tossed around regarding Afghanistan.  Once again we see those who lack understanding of global conflict…

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10.05.2009 5:26 pm

Our war strategy: Training others to kill

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In a recent article by Tom Gallaher of Common Dreams, he wrote- “General Stanley McChrystal, the new commander of the Afghanistan invasion  forces, has just assessed his need at 500,000 troops for five years - 350,000 of  them to be…
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09.28.2009 5:14 pm

Obama is only cleaning up the mess

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Regarding “Mr. President, I wish …”, a letter on Sunday about the war in  Afghanistan: The writer should have invited Cheney, Rumsfield, Rice and Bush, the people who made the decision to put your loved one in harms way. President Obama…

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09.28.2009 5:12 pm

Misdirected anger

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A Sunay letter-writer, gail Joyner, wished President Barack Obama had been there for her nephew’s funeral. Her nephew was killed in action.
With all due respect and sympathy to Ms. Joyner and her family on the loss of her nephew in Afghanistan -…
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