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THE PLANK NOVEMBER 30, 2009

What He Said

BY MICHAEL CROWLEY

Fred Kaplan articulates an ambivalence that I largely share about an Afghanistan escalation. The bottom line is that there are no good options here for the U.S., and choosing the least bad is a combination of hopeful guesswork and prioritizing national costs and risks.

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