SKY VIEW - U.S. Army Spc. Kayla Moore covers her sector in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter while traveling from Forward Operating Base Lightning to Contingency Operating Base Ajiristan, Afghanistan Jan. 20, 2010. Moore is a Black Hawk Crew Chief assigned to the Company A, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Laura GoodgameNew Doubts About Afghanistan -- Leslie H. Gelb, The Daily Beast
Talks with the Taliban. Pakistanis in the driver’s seat. And no drawdown by July 2011. Leslie H. Gelb on the stunning new statements by McChrystal, Petraeus, and Gates, and what they mean for the future course of the war in Afghanistan.
This week might well mark a new pessimistic high among U.S. military and Pentagon leaders about the war in Afghanistan, as well as an attendant new willingness to deal with some of the Taliban. It sure looks like the military brass most deeply and directly involved in the war are sending signals to the White House. Most certainly, it isn’t that they’re just thinking out loud. The question, as always, is whether the Obama team is listening—and what it is hearing.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
NATO Envisions Many More Years in Afghanistan -- Matthias Gebauer, Spiegel Online
The time to talk to the Taliban is now -- Ahmed Rashid, The Guardian
Fault lines in the Sino-Indian frontier dispute -- Gregory Clark
Doing the Math on Mexican Drug Wars -- Viridiana Rios, New York Times
Bin Laden yearns for relevance -- The National editorial
Abdulmutallab in 50 Minutes -- Wall Street Journal editorial
Gibbs: The FBI Learned All It Could About Abdulmutallab in a 50-Minute Interview -- Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard opinion
Imagining A Nuclear 911 -- Graham Allison, Foreign Policy
The Geopolitics of Electricity -- Charles Ebinger & John Banks, Global Politics
An Economic Time Bomb -- Pete DuPont, Wall Street Journal
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