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'The war that has to be won': but will our soldiers be given the chance to win it?(United States foreign military relations)
IN Afghanistan, President Obama has pledged to "wage the war that has to be won." To accomplish that, the administration will unveil a new strategy in April. Recently the doughty Sen. Joseph Lieberman published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, proposing one such strategy. What is needed, Lieberman opined, is for someone to take charge, for additional troops to be sent into action, and for the U.S. Congress to sustain a nation-building strategy. This is all good advice, but implementing it will be exceedingly tricky.
First of all, it is not clear who will be in charge. Obama has appointed Richard Holbrooke, who played a key role in halting the war in the ...
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