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Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Shooting the Messenger

Citation added: February 1st, 2007, 6:03 am
The central argument of the new Bilmes paper is that so many soldiers are being injured that the costs of caring for them over their lifetimes is likely to be $350 billion, or up to twice that, depending on how long the war lasts.
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How to solve Afghanistan's drug problem. - By Anne Applebaum - Slate Magazine

Citation added: January 17th, 2007, 10:10 pm
As a result, in 1974, the Turks, with U.S. and U.N. support, tried a different tactic. They began licensing poppy cultivation for the purpose of producing morphine, codeine, and other legal opiates. Legal factories were built to replace the illegal ones.
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Relative lethality

Citation added: January 6th, 2007, 4:17 pm
The data dramatically reveals that in modern American wars of the twenty-first century civilians perish by a multiple of at least 18 compared to the aggressor nation's military personnel (data on Taliban or Iraqi resistance deaths is unavailable).
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RealClearPolitics - Underestimating Afghanistan

Citation added: December 13th, 2006, 8:34 am
. For decades -- not only since 2001 -- U.S. policymakers have underestimated the stakes in Afghanistan. They continue to do so today. A mere course correction will not be enough to prevent the country from sliding into chaos. Washington and its internati
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Bring on the Afghan Study Group. - By Frederick Kempe - Slate Magazine

Citation added: December 7th, 2006, 1:35 pm
So, while the world scrutinizes the much-anticipated report of the Iraq Study Group—and the extent to which President Bush embraces its findings—it should at the same time launch a similar and equally urgent initiative for Afghanistan.
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