I listened carefully to the president’s speech at West Point last Tuesday evening and watched, closely, too, to read his mood and body language. Standing before an audience of cadets, he said he would order some 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
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Randi Kreiss
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12/10/09
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President Obama is struggling with a decision that could define his presidency: Should the United States commit more troops to the war in Afghanistan in the interest of “nation building,” or limit our role there to hunting down Al Qaeda?
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Al D'Amato
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10/15/09
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"Happy writes white,” the novelists say. Talk about a happy man or happy news and before you complete the thought, your readers will fall asleep. It was Tolstoy who glibly indicted happy families by saying “they are all the same.”
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Randi Kreiss
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10/1/09
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