<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/215c6cdf-a7a2-4cd8-a42a-e58b358f36e6/962F1D92-0743-4090-853E-0C52954DAF67/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/20/terrorism/index.html" href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/20/terrorism/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.salon.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/20/terrorism/index.html"><H2>A Rumsfeld-era reminder about what causes Terrorism</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/20/terrorism/index.html"><H1><A href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/">Glenn Greenwald</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/20/terrorism/index.html">The debate over Afghanistan -- or, more accurately, the multi-pronged effort to pressure Obama into escalating -- is looking increasingly familiar, <U>i.e.</U>, like the "debate" over Iraq.  <EM>The New York Times</EM> is <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/world/asia/20military.html?hpw" target="_blank">publishing articles</A> filled with quotes from anonymous war advocates.  Permanent war-justifier Michael O'Hanlon is regularly featured in "news accounts" as he all but <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/world/asia/20military.html?hpw" target="_blank">blames Obama for increasing combat deaths</A> due to his failure to escalate the moment the military demanded it.  <EM>The New Republic</EM> is <A href="http://www.tnr.com/article/world/the-front" target="_blank">churning out pro-war screeds</A>.  Every option is on the proverbial table except one:  not fighting the war.  And there's a widening gap between (a) <A href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/19/cnn-poll-will-afghanistan-turn-into-another-vietnam/" target="_blank">public opinion</A> (which sees Afghanistan as "turning into another Vietnam" and which opposes more troops, with <STRONG>49% favoring a full or partial withdrawal</STRONG>)</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/962F1D92-0743-4090-853E-0C52954DAF67/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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