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    Robert Naiman: Obama's Decision on More Troops to "Someone Else's Civil War"
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    In November 2006, the New York Times reported that President Bush "dismissed suggestions that Iraq had descended into civil war," noting that while officials in other countries were "warning that Iraq is verging on civil war" Bush was "well aware that a label of civil war would make the Iraq mission even more difficult to justify." Full Article at Huffington Post
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Robert Naiman: Obama's Decision on More Troops to "Someone Else's Civil War"
  1. well aware that a label of civil war would make the Iraq mission even more difficult to justify.
    SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago
  2. U.S. entry into the Afghan civil war.
    SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago
  3. In March [President Obama] articulated a broader mission: The United States would now 'take the fight to the Taliban in the south and the east,' in effect making the United States a full party to Afghanistan's civil war.
    SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago
  4. Several former bitter enemies have formed a shaky alliance to fight the Taliban. One faction is commanded by Ahmad Shah Massoud, a Tajik, and another by Abdul Rashid Dostum, an Uzbek. A third group consists of ethnic Hazara and Shiite Muslims.
    SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago
  5. I fail to see the value ... in continuous U.S. casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year old civil war.
    SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago
  6. To understand why everyone was so shocked that [President] Karzai chose [Muhammad] Fahim as his running mate, you need to know a little of the personal history between the two men...Back in 1994, the mujahedin factions who fought off the Soviets were supposed to be cooperating in a coalition government....
    SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago
  7. dismissed suggestions that Iraq had descended into civil war
    SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago

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