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Why it's good for Obama that Americans want out of Afghanistan

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[Washington Post (blog)] - As Spencer Ackerman notes, Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are shifting to (qualified) dovishness on the war. Gingrich for the moment recommends pulling out and Santorum urges what Ackerman calls a "Go Big or Go Home"

Nobody Wants to Stay in Afghanistan Any More (Except a Few Generals)

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[Wired News (blog)] - By Spencer Ackerman Army Sgt. David Banks helps conduct a cordon and search operation in Pana, Afghanistan. Photo: US Army These are the emerging contours of the Afghanistan debate. Backing a quicker withdrawal: the White House; NATO; two out of three

Afghan Air Force: Flying Drug Mules That Fuel Civil War

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[Wired News (blog)] - By Spencer Ackerman They're not just illiterates who occasionally kill their American mentors. Afghanistan's military also ferries drugs across the country in its US-purchased aircraft. At a cost of nearly $2 billion for two years' worth of building

Military: Who Cares How Many Taliban Stop Fighting?

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[Wired News] - By Spencer Ackerman For years, the US-led coalition in Afghanistan has said that the war will conclude when insurgents decide they'd rather rejoin Afghan society than continue fighting. But now that insurgents have largely opted to continue fighting

Military Burned Korans At Giant Afghanistan Jail

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[Wired News (blog)] - By Spencer Ackerman It's bad enough that the US military burned — it says accidentally — Korans in Afghanistan. But if that symbolism wasn't already a setback to the war effort, the NATO command in Afghanistan confirms that the destruction of an

11 years, 5 months and 10 Days in Afghanistan

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[msnbc.com] - MSNBC Political Analyst Ezra Klein sits in for Chris Hayes, and is joined by Elise Jordan, former speechwriter for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, CBS contributor Nancy Giles, The New York Times' Jodi Kantor, and Wired.com's Spencer Ackerman

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: By Spencer Ackerman - December 28, 2007, 4:23PM Back to our Afghanistan-

Your tax dollars at work: Afghan Air Force used as "flying drug mules"

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[Boing Boing] - By Xeni Jardin at 8:57 am Thursday, Mar 8 Spencer Ackerman at Danger Room on reports (utterly shocking reports!) that Afghanistan's military uses its US-bought aircraft to transport drugs throughout the country. At a cost of nearly $2 billion for two