Slide Show: Afghanistan at a Crossroads

"During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama (pictured here in Iraq with General David Petraeus) not only had the good judgment to oppose the war in Iraq, he argued for the need to 'end the mindset that took us into' that war, So it's troubling that he ramped up his rhetoric during the campaign about exiting Iraq in order to focus on what he calls the 'central front in the war on terror'--Afghanistan."--Katrina vanden Heuvel
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