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December 17, 2010

The White House's Bleak View of the War

Fred Kaplan, Slate

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The Obama administration's long-awaited review of its Afghanistan war strategy—or at least the unclassified five-page summary of it released Thursday—is a bleaker document than it may seem at first glance.

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