http://rc3.org/2009/10/25/where-we-are-in-afghanistan/ Strong opinions weakly held Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:59:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://rc3.org/2009/10/25/where-we-are-in-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-6953 Medley Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:39:35 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10215#comment-6953 <p>I was thinking about this on the Metro this morning - reading some typically sub-par coverage of the Afghanistan issue and the question that popped into my head was: "WHAT IS THE POLICY OBJECTIVE?" -- absent a clear articulation of that, it is impossible to judge the merits of any particular strategy. I thought that I should probably dig into this report (which I'd also seen a link to over at Digby's with some add'l commentary by her - http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/we-have-watches-they-have-time-by-digby.html) and some other things - I mean, maybe there is a clearly-articulated policy objective but the media is just too stupid to explain it, but I just don't know if I have the stomach.</p> I was thinking about this on the Metro this morning – reading some typically sub-par coverage of the Afghanistan issue and the question that popped into my head was: “WHAT IS THE POLICY OBJECTIVE?” — absent a clear articulation of that, it is impossible to judge the merits of any particular strategy. I thought that I should probably dig into this report (which I’d also seen a link to over at Digby’s with some add’l commentary by her – http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/we-have-watches-they-have-time-by-digby.html) and some other things – I mean, maybe there is a clearly-articulated policy objective but the media is just too stupid to explain it, but I just don’t know if I have the stomach.

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