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October 07, 2009 01:37 PM Philip Larkin has a Lesson for Barack Obama by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules Over at The Weekly Standard blog, Bill Kristol has a short but deadly post on Obama’s dithering non-policy about the war in Afghanistan. Bill reports that at a recent meeting with Congressional leaders, Obama gravely pointed out that every thousand troops sent to Afghanistan would cost about a billion dollars a year. A billion dollars [...] Click here to read the entire article » |
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