Month / December 31, 2012
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Don’t Jump! Avoiding the Fiscal Cliff
The first task that awaits President Obama as he wraps up the quadrennial “year off” that we give to campaigning Presidents is to reduce the deficit and to confront the impending fiscal cliff, defined as the scheduled end of the Bush tax cuts coupled with a series of massive cuts to discretionary and defense spending…
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Too Fast, Too Soon: Afghanistan After Withdrawal
The United States invaded Afghanistan in the fall of 2001 to kill Osama Bin Laden and to overthrow the Taliban regime, because it was hosting al-Qaeda elements. This was the U.S. objective. Now, bin Laden is dead—thanks to the U.S. Navy Seals—and the Taliban movement has been greatly weakened. Freedom was a foreign concept in…
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