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11.12.2009 9:00 pm

Reality and Afghanistan: It’s time to leave.

A wounded soldier from the 10th Mountain Division is evacuated from Afghanistan's Wardark Province in August. (David Goldman/AP)

A wounded soldier from the 10th Mountain Division is evacuated from Afghanistan in August. (David Goldman/AP)

For decades historians have argued whether, had he lived, President John F. Kennedy would have sent the nation full tilt into Vietnam the way President Lyndon…

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10.29.2009 9:01 pm

Afghanistan: Middle ground or ‘Pollyannaish misadventure?’

R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch

R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch

President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet today with the Joint Chiefs of Staff amid reports that he is close to a decision on new U.S. strategies in Afghanistan.

Not surprisingly for a president who has made conciliation the watchword of…

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10.25.2009 9:00 pm

A recount, and rethinking, in Afghanistan

Hamid Karzai, then the great hope for Afghan democracy, addresses Congress in 2004. (White House Photo)

Hamid Karzai, then the great hope for Afghan democracy, addresses Congress in 2004. (White House Photo)

Last week, Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., took a long walk with Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai in the gardens of the presidential palace in Kabul. At…

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