Glenn Greenwald has a great side-by-side comparison of Barack Obama’s statements about his proposed Afghanistan surge and George W. Bush’s about his Iraq surge.
Meanwhile, Malalai Joya, an Afghan woman who should have gotten Obama’s Noble Peace Prize, is the latest to argue a surge will only exacerbate corruption within Hamid Karzai’s government and blowback by the Taliban.
And, from here in America, Juan Cole sees ethnic, tribal and corruption battles between Karzai and the Afghan parliament.
None of which George Barack Obama will tell the American public tonight.
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