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AfPak experts advise Obama

Mon, 11/09/2009 - 10:20am

As the Obama administration ponders the way forward in Afghanistan, the AfPak Channel reached out to experts who have lived in Afghanistan or researched and reported from the region for extended periods of time to ask, in about what a senior National Security Council staffer might have time to say to him in one of the meetings that is now going on in the White House, what they would tell Obama as he considers his options. These are their answers.

Graeme Smith, More talking, not more troops

J Alexander Thier, Prioritize in Afghanistan

Michael Innes, Nearly Anywhere Terrorists Operate

Gretchen Peters, It's not about the number of troops

Asma Nemati, An articulate plan for security

Peter Bergen, Time for the heavy lifting

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Really?

by dpweber on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 3:09pm

This is what you'd say to the President in an NSA meeting? He could have gotten this off Google Reader if he wanted---this is the insight our greatest minds can provide? "You need to make a decision," "Strategy is important," and "Time for Americans to do some heavy lifting," are what you'd say to a very busy man right now? Thanks. I think I understand where this so-called dithering comes from.