President Barack Obama’s decision to escalate U.S. involvement in the war in Afghanistan is met with disillusionment by some on the left, disdain by some on the right. Those on each see it as either political or as a strategic error. Others on each side support the move as courageous, or refreshingly intellectually nuanced, or [...]
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