Monday Morning Generals And The Tora Bora Critique -- Peter Feaver, Foreign Policy
It is not every day that one gets a chance to rattle the cage of the boss, so when I read the contribution from ForeignPolicy.com czarina Susan Glasser to the Washington Post's compilation of "worst ideas of the decade" I knew I had to respond -- even if it means I can kiss my year-end bonus good-bye.
Glasser's argument is the conventional wisdom, painstakingly assembled over years of partisan arm-chair generalship: if only the United States had deployed more ground troops into Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, we may have killed or captured the al Qaeda leadership at Tora Bora.
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The Public Cools on Global Warming -- Karlyn Bowman, Forbes
Copenhagen's Failure Belongs to Obama -- Naomi Klein, The Guardian
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Copenhagen: An All-Out Failure -- Der Spiegel editorial