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US President Obama’s troop pledge to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan rests on a gamble on unreliable and dubious allies supposedly working towards the pressing goals in that country. The troop surge will have to rely on the corrupt Karzai government, perceived to be one of the most corrupt political administrations in the world [...]

Because Joe Biden thinks he always has a gentleman’s agreement upon every backslapping event with his president, he is confident that his president listens to his every advice regarding the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. One of his self-admittedly salient recommendations is not to increase number of troops in Afghanistan. This time, he just [...]