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Links to PoliticsThe war in Afghanistan faces serious opposition both from the public and Congress Think Progress 10 (Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, July 6 2010, http://pr.thinkprogress.org/)IM There are a handful of conservatives who have stood up against the rise of ultra-hawks in their movement. While most Republicans were either staying neutral or demanding Steele's resignation, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) -- a longtime Iraq war foe -- defended the embattled chairman, saying that he is "absolutely right" and that Republicans "should stick by him." In a private e-mail obtained by the Huffington Post, Jon Fleischman, the vice chairman of the California GOP, is quoted expressing the same skepticism about the war as Steele. "For what it is worth, I'm an officer with the CA Republican Party and I can't figure out what we are achieving in Afghanistan," he wrote. And during the recent vote on the war supplemental bill, nine House Republicans joined nearly 2/3 of the House Democratic caucus to vote for the McGovern-Obey amendment that would have required Obama to submit a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan. Although nearly every Republican in Congress voted to authorize Bush to attack Iraq, and most major conservative institutions -- like the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation -- backed the war, a handful of conservative voices, like the libertarian CATO Institute and paleoconservative The American Conservative magazine, strongly opposed the conflict. While it is clear that the conservative movement has an obsession with war, the American people do not. A recent USA Today/Gallup poll found that 58 percent of Americans agree with Obama's stated timeline of July 2011 to begin a withdrawal from Afghanistan. It is up to the President to hold to the timeline and provide an alternative to the right's foreign policy philosophy and addiction to war. A2: Aff FailsSweeping redeployment is key to defeat the Taliban insurgency Blanchfield 10 (Mike, Canwest News Service, May 24 2010, http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/afghanistan/story.html?id=9885002 OTTAWA -- The security situation in Afghanistan has not improved, according to Gen. Walt Natynczyk, Canada’s top soldier, and the U.S. troop surge is essential to defeating the Taliban insurgency. Speaking to the Canadian Club of Ottawa, Gen. Natynczyk said the recent attack on innocent Afghan schoolgirls by attackers throwing battery acid shows that the insurgency does not value life and is a formidable foe. The chief of the defence staff also said the cost of the mission has been high because the Forces capability had been allowed to erode for years before defence spending was restored. AT: December ReviewDecember review is irrelevant DeYoung 10 (Karen June 17 The Washington Post Lexis Nexis TBC 7/6/10) Senior defense and military officials Wednesday played down the importance of an end-of-year review that President Obama has described as crucial to assessing whether his Afghanistan war strategy is working, saying that it would have little bearing on decisions about troop withdrawals scheduled to begin in July 2011. "I would not want to overplay the significance of this review," Gen. David H. Petraeus, head of the U.S. Central Command, told lawmakers. The military, he said, "would not make too much out of that." Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy said the December assessment would be "a bit deeper" than the regular monthly reviews Obama now receives, but essentially the same. The remarks appeared at odds with senior administration officials' past descriptions of the review as a "proof of concept" moment and a potential turning point in the war effort. December review is irrelevant – no withdrawal decision DeYoung 10 (Karen June 17 The Washington Post Lexis Nexis TBC 7/6/10) Petraeus played down the significance of the assessment, saying: "We do reviews all the time. We're constantly doing assessments." He added: "I would not want to overplay the significance of this review," which would come only "three or four months" after full deployment and "six or seven months before what President Obama has described as the point . . . of the process beginning, at a pace to be determined by conditions on the ground, a responsible drawdown of the surge forces." McKeon asked whether the review would be "used by the president to determine the pace and scope for redeployment" of U.S. troops. Petraeus said he thought December was "probably way too far out to be making those kinds of judgments." A2: Kundahar KeySuccess in Kundahar will not mean defeat of the Taliban or success in Afghanistan Pakistan Daily 10 (June 13 2010, http://www.daily.pk/kandahar-operation-will-not-break-the-back-of-taliban-18711/)IM The second US troop surge of 30000 was meant to recapture the lost space in southern and eastern Afghanistan, break the linkage between Taliban and Al-Qaeda, divide and weaken Taliban, train and equip Afghan National Army (ANA) enabling it to takeover frontline duties, make India guardian of Afghanistan, negotiate with Taliban from position of strength and then withdraw leaving behind US friendly regime. Millions of dollars are being doled out to Taliban by US security companies to buy their loyalties. Another operation was launched in Marjah with 15000 foreign troops and ANA with high expectations that it would turn the tide. After the operation ran into snags, attention got riveted towards Kandahar. The much hyped Kandahar operation has been postponed from June to August since the planners are developing cold feet. To cover up another embarrassment, its success has been made contingent upon an operation in North Waziristan, (NW) described as the hub of terrorism wherefrom militants in Afghanistan are guided. A false picture is being given to the world that Kandahar is the bastion of Taliban and its capture will break their back and its outcome will decide the future strategy. This assumption has been made on the premise that Mullah Omar and most Shura members belong to this city. It should be well understood that only Kabul and Kandahar are in effective control of government forces and they have a large presence and well fortified positions. Most militant attacks in this city like the one on 7 June in which seven US and three NATO soldiers were killed and another on police training centre are conducted by raiders coming from outside and not from within. Having announced the operation and the likely month, it will be foolish on part of the Taliban believing in strategy of guerilla tactics to wait for them and offer a pitched mismatched battle in Kandahar. Moreover, Kandahar is poised towards Balochistan and not NW. It was only when very little actionable intelligence could be yielded from arrested Mullah Baradar that Quetta Shura story got punctured. Soon after, Faisal Shahzad fairy-tale was concocted to drum up NW. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. 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