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“President Barack Obama on Wednesday will consider a new compromise plan for adding troops to Afghanistan that would deploy 30,000 to 35,000 new forces, including as many as 10,000 military trainers, over the next year or more.” The amount of time that has passed since this decision needed to be made is astounding.

“Mr. Reichl, of the Prague Institute, says such whitewashing – simply noting ‘mistakes’ – drives his colleagues to not only expose the regime’s secrets, but ‘do PR for history,’ to puncture nostalgia with public events, exhibits, and classroom education. ‘We don’t want the younger generations to forget.’” They already have.

White House denies decision has been made. “I’ve been asking not only Gen. McChrystal, but all our commanders who are familiar with the situation, as well as our civilian folks on the ground, a lot of questions that, until they’re answered, may create a situation in which we resource something based on faulty premises.”

It looks more and more as if someone should’ve known this was coming: “Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America’s Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.”