President's Timetable for Withdrawal Will Backfire

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President Barack Obama's "new" approach to Afghanistan is a surge in sheep's clothing.

Robert Gibbs' woolly explanation prior to Obama's speech is illustrative: "What the president will announce is an acceleration of our targeting of al-Qaida and its allies."

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President's Timetable for Withdrawal Will Backfire

Gibbs served PR piffle for retreat-wing Democrats in Congress, a sound-bite fairy tale intended to calm the defeatist impulse that insistently infects the left of Obama's party.

The president's speech continued that triangula...

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