[Peace-discuss] Obama on Sending More Troops to "Someone Else's Civil War"

[Robert Naiman]

'It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the
political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil
war."

- Senator Barack Obama, announcing his candidacy for President of the
United States, Springfield, Illinois, February 10, 2007.

Have U.S. Media Buried the Afghan Civil War?

Searching through the Washington Post and the New York Times for the
past year, I could not find a single news article in which the idea
that a civil war existed in Afghanistan at any time following the U.S.
invasion in 2001 was mentioned, with the exception of the Washington
Post article about Matthew Hoh's resignation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/obamas-decision-on-more-t_b_342283.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/2/125148/177

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/389

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Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
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