Afghanistan on Site Map subfolders
"Obama
at the Precipice", By FRANK RICH, September 27, 2009:
... the new "must-read book" for President Obama’s war team is
"
Lessons in Disaster" by Gordon M. Goldstein, a
foreign-policy scholar who had collaborated with McGeorge
Bundy, the Kennedy-Johnson national security adviser, on
writing ... about his role as an architect of the Vietnam
War.
"Lessons in Disaster" caused only a modest stir when
published in November, but
The Times Book Review cheered
it as "an extraordinary cautionary tale for all
Americans." The reviewer was, of all people, the diplomat
Richard Holbrooke, whose career began in Vietnam and who
would later be charged with the
Afghanistan-Pakistan crisis by the new Obama
administration.
"Afghanistan’s
Other Front", By JOSEPH KEARNS GOODWIN, New York Times,
September 15, 2009
"The
Hard and Bitter Truth", By BOB HERBERT, New York Times,
September 21,
2009
President Obama is in the uncomfortable position of staring
reality in the face in Afghanistan. Reality is not
blinking.
Gates
Stresses Privacy in Chain of Command, By DAVID STOUT,
October 5, 2009
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates appeared to
subtly rebuke America’s top commander in Afghanistan, “I
believe ... it is important that we take our time to do all we
can to get this right, ... And in this process,” Mr. Gates went
on, “it is imperative that all of us taking part in these
deliberations — civilians and military alike — provide our best
advice to the president candidly but
privately.”
Former Sec. Rice on Afghanistan
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