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Afghanistan by the Numbers: Measuring a War Gone to Hell

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. September 9, 2009.

Maintenance cost for the force of 450,000 Afghan soldiers and police U.S. generals dream of creating: approximately 500% of the Afghan budget.

Failure Squared: War on Drugs Meets the War on Terror

Failure Squared: War on Drugs Meets the War on Terror

Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise. July 31, 2009.

Something to celebrate?

Holbrooke: Pakistani Refugees Are 'Major, Major Crisis'

Holbrooke: Pakistani Refugees Are 'Major, Major Crisis'

Agence France Presse June 10, 2009.

US envoy Richard Holbrooke called Wednesday for refugees from the combat zone in western Pakistan to be allowed to return home as soon as possible.

Will Obama Stack His Middle East Team with Neoconservative Ideologues?

deleted, AlterNet. January 27, 2009.

Obama has pledged to "engage" with Iran in a respectful way, but "engagement" is a malleable concept.

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