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Obama and Afghanistan: It’s Hard to Decide on a Move When You Have So Few Pieces Left
Saturday, November 21, 2009
(photo by Marco Vossen)
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told Reuters (via TPM) today that it will be at least another week — in other words, after Thanksgiving — before President Obama announces his new strategy for Afghanistan (not to be confused, of course, with his previous new strategy from earlier this year).
Meanwhile, though, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wasn’t waiting to reit...
Original article from http://firedoglake.com/2009/11/20/obama-and-afghanistan-its-hard-to-decide-on-a-move-when-you-have-so-few-pieces-left/
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