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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>Frank Miller&#8217;s Geostrategic Theory</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/frank-millers-geostrategic-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Lovece sat down with Frank Miller for Newsday to discuss his upcoming film The Spirit. Toward the end of it Lovece asked Miller about remarks he&#8217;d made in 2007 in support of the Iraq War, and offered him an &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/frank-millers-geostrategic-theory/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>So Very LP</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/so-very-lp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s this? Bob Barr wanted Ronpaul as his veep? Take your eyes off the Libertarian Party for a minute and you miss a lot of foolishness. Our old friend Steve Newton fills us in on the amusing drama that ensued &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/so-very-lp/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Clear Blue Sky</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/a-clear-blue-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NASA) Today is the 11th. The unwelcome anniversary. Everyone remembers where they were when they heard. I was awoken by a phone call on the day. &#8220;The country&#8217;s under attack!&#8221; the phone said. You wake up rather fast when that&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/a-clear-blue-sky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Test for French Will in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/a-test-for-french-will-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of a horrific magazine spread depicting Taliban fighters showing off war trophies looted from the bodies of French soldiers, President Sarkozy has been predictably and commendably resolute. France isn&#8217;t going to run away for a change. Unfortunately &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/a-test-for-french-will-in-afghanistan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bloody Day for Australia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/bloody-day-for-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan, the Australian army suffers its worst casualties in a single engagement since the Vietnam war, after a Taliban ambush of an SAS patrol.]]></description>
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		<title>Logistically Untenable?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/26/logistically-untenable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belmont ClubWe could be forced to entirely revamp our strategy in Afghanistan if the situation in Pakistan continues to deteriorate and the Russians intend to be uncooperative. There are in fact serious concerns that troops in Afghanistan can be cut &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/26/logistically-untenable/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Tide of Violence</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/rising-tide-of-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent visualization of the increase in attacks in Afghanistan&#8217;s individual provinces. Broadly, there&#8217;s been about a 50% increase in Taliban attacks from last year. An urgent situation, whatever Geoff Morrell thinks.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Setbacks&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/27/setbacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We see this kind of thing in the press all the time: U.S. and Afghan troops have abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine American soldiers earlier this week, officials said Wednesday. Compounding the military setback, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/27/setbacks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Support Citizen&#8217;s Media: A Challenge Grant</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/12/support-citizens-media-a-challenge-grant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official friend-of-Registan.net Sean-Paul Kelley, of The Agonist fame, has set forth an offer I simply cannot refuse: He is willing to pitch in $1000, if I can raise the remainder of my costs for going to Afghanistan August 22. That &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/12/support-citizens-media-a-challenge-grant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire &amp; Invasion, by Paddy Docherty</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/10/the-khyber-pass-a-history-of-empire-invasion-by-paddy-docherty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book was written entirely in the passive voice. The passive voice was used to avoid assigning causation or personhood to various events. As a result, we learn that places were invaded, people were slaughtered, armies were founded, but no &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/10/the-khyber-pass-a-history-of-empire-invasion-by-paddy-docherty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/06/putting-my-money-where-my-mouth-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging can bring about some amazing opportunities. Through my involvement with Global Voices I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to meet some extraordinary people working very hard for the basic right to speak their minds—something I routinely take for granted. It is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/06/putting-my-money-where-my-mouth-is/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Boumediene &#8212; The Great Sandbagging</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/13/boumediene-the-great-sandbagging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Welcome QandO readers. Please look around after you&#8217;ve finished with this post, but McQ says you have to go back over to QandO when you&#8217;re done &#8230; but I won&#8217;t tell if you won&#8217;t. _____________________________________________________________ The recent Supreme Court &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/13/boumediene-the-great-sandbagging/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>(Relatively) Measuring Success</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/05/relatively-measuring-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the most recent of a series of posts on Registan.net where I explore some of the fundamentals of conflict within the tribal areas of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. At the end of this post is a link to the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/05/relatively-measuring-success/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Because Aren&#8217;t All Insurgencies the Same?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/03/because-arent-all-insurgencies-the-same/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/03/because-arent-all-insurgencies-the-same/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal is a frustrating columnist. In April he made the head scratching argument that Khost province in Afghanistan, which has, along with the rest of RC-East, experienced a 36% jump in insurgent attacks over &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/03/because-arent-all-insurgencies-the-same/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Retreating Periphery</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Mani Babbar) After 9/11 widened Al Qaeda&#8217;s ambitious war against most of the world, Osama bin Laden described his own axis-o-evil as being composed of &#8220;Crusaders, Zionists and Hindus.&#8221; But at some point, without anyone much noticing, that seems &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Of &#8220;Battle Fatigue&#8221; and National Caveats</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/21/of-battle-fatigue-and-national-caveats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted first to Registan.net, your one-stop shop for all things Central Asia, this is a tangent to a really excellent theme I&#8217;ve been tracking the past few weeks—the flow of press releases masquerading as journalism from Afghanistan to our largest &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/21/of-battle-fatigue-and-national-caveats/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Danger of Funding Thugs</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/20/the-danger-of-funding-thugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 23:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure it&#8217;s nice when you pay them to pretty please stop attacking us, but what of the consequences? This is the dark side of the CLC/Sons of Iraq/Awakening bandwagon we jumped on, and it&#8217;s one I&#8217;ve been mocked repeatedly for &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/20/the-danger-of-funding-thugs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Taliban Cease Fire Won&#8217;t Matter</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/06/why-the-taliban-cease-fire-wont-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/06/why-the-taliban-cease-fire-wont-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Published first at Registan.net, this is the culmination of some research I&#8217;ve been doing into the nature and history of Pashtun tribal militancy. It draws from a mixture of out-of-print ethnocgraphic and geographic surveys, as well as contemporary news accounts, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/06/why-the-taliban-cease-fire-wont-matter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Roads, More Roads, and Still More Roads Indeed!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/03/roads-more-roads-and-still-more-roads-indeed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 00:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the latest post in a running commentary on a new meme to emerge from the PR folks in Afghanistan: the security benefits of building roads. The argument, advanced by a few American reporters and one David Kilcullen, is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/03/roads-more-roads-and-still-more-roads-indeed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Forgive the Self-Promotion</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/27/forgive-the-self-promotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I honestly don&#8217;t have the time to reformat everything for several cross-posts, so this is a summary of posts at my other blog, Registan.net, where I&#8217;ve been discussing some interesting topics related to counterinsurgency and reconstruction in Afghanistan, as well &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/27/forgive-the-self-promotion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Two Myths About Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/two-myths-about-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the interest of sparking another weekend long 30 reply post, I present this Washington Post article by freelance writer Ann Marlowe who was embedded with the US forces twice in 2007. To spoil the surprise, The first is that &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/two-myths-about-afghanistan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Speaks to Europe</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/mccain-speaks-to-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Chris Dunn Spiegel has a typically aggressive (and aggressively European) interview with John McCain today. In many ways it&#8217;s an interesting yet disappointing exercise, due to its focus on the perceived past sins of the Bush administration. While much &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/mccain-speaks-to-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Air Mobility for Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/air-mobility-for-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Karzai presided over the opening of a new US funded $22 million hanger, for the Afghan military&#8217;s growing fleet of aircraft. Of primary focus in acquisitions have been transport helicopters to support army field operations. The plan is for &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/air-mobility-for-afghanistan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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