New at Reason: Brian Doherty on Obama's Afghan Withdrawal

August 19, 2010

President Barack Obama’s new man in charge in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, is already casting doubt on the president’s announced plans for a July 2011 beginning of an end to the U.S. occupation. But as Senior Editor Brian Doherty writes, if Petraeus' ill-fated predecessor got ankled for being too loose-lipped around a reporter from Rolling Stone, will Petraeus be capped for speaking another obvious truth Obama doesn’t want broadcast? As Doherty notes, with things getting worse on so many metrics, a dogged insistence on actually “accomplishing the mission” means that we aren’t leaving Afghanistan in 2011.

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