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His son isn’t Joe Biden’s only problem: The Democratic front runner is trying to rewrite his history on Afghanistan—and the media, of course, is letting him.

A decade ago, the Obama/Biden surge began in Afghanistan. Thanks to Biden’s lowballing... amgreatness.com/2020/01/20/afg…
Obama authorized 10,000 fewer troops than the military advised. Further, Obama agreed to Biden’s summer 2011 drawdown—a politically motivated deadline to coincide with their reelection campaign.

But the Obama/Biden surge failed:

amgreatness.com/2020/01/20/afg…
I know impeachment is getting all the attention but the exceptional series in the WashPo (yes!) deserves as much if not more attention. Check it out

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While Hayes frets over Yovanovitch's overdue and justified firing, he has made no comment about Trump's appearance at the March for Life. The Dispatch's column today makes a one-sentence reference to Trump's historic speech. #conservingconservatism
Useful reminder that Hayes also was troubled by Comey's firing washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standar…
Todays' Dispatch also includes yesterday's full rant by contemplable liar, imposter, and craven attention-seeker Adam Schiff because, conservatism!
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Doug Lute, Obama’s ambassador to NATO: Orange Man Bad

Also Doug Lute: “If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction … 2,400 lives lost. Who will say this was in vain?”

#AfghanistanPapers amgreatness.com/2020/01/23/tru…
“Lute explained how Obama’s national security team were schooled in policy but not war planning. ‘There was a structural gap: there were two wars going on and we didn’t have anyone speaking strategically. There was a gap, or a void, in trying to connect ends, ways, and means.’”
“The same class of experts that claims Trump is the biggest threat to global security in 70 years has been the legitimate threat. They knew the war was going poorly, that young American patriots were dying needlessly, that U.S. tax dollars were being wasted, and said nothing.”
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This is my 4th in a series of articles on the #AfghanistanPapers. It’s interesting—but not surprising—that the same clan of Beltway global “experts” is the same group working to get Trump kicked out of the White House. But their track record is lousy... amgreatness.com/2020/01/23/tru…
“After Trump released the transcript of his July 2019 phone call, more than 300 national security officials signed a letter that insisted the conversation was an impeachable offense.
One of the signers was Nicholas Burns, the former U.S. ambassador to NATO under George W Bush.”
Burns’ interview with inspector general for Afghanistan, however, raises plenty of questions about his own competence. Burns admits the NATO operation was dysfunctional—we had to do most of the heavy lifting and suffered the most casualties because our allies weren’t prepared.
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#democratic primary: It's 12/1 and just over 2 months to the IA caucuses. So what the heck is going on in this primary that's being conducted in the middle of a constitutional crisis? Well, the bottom line is that young voters are steadier in their preferences than older voters.
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@samstein “Their willingness to say no to everything — the fact that since 2007, they have filibustered about 500 pieces of legislation that would help the middle class just gives you a sense of how opposed they are to any progress-" President Barack Obama, in 2014
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