Andrew Mayersohn
Andrew Mayersohn
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Mayersohn and Oye: The devil is in the details
On Tuesday night, for the first time since President Obama’s election, we sat down in a college TV room and watched him give a speech in real time, from beginning to end. Before an audience of cadets at West Point, Obama outlined his plans for Afghanistan: 30,000 more troops sent over, starting within weeks, and a troop drawdown beginning in July 2011.
Mayersohn and Oye: Democracy and Afghanistan
You might have seen the photo on the front page of The New York Times last week with Sen. John Kerry leaning in to whisper in the ear of Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan.
Oye and Mayersohn: Addressing Afghanistan
Yesterday marked the eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, allowing a wide variety of politicians, commentators, and experts a chance to offer their opinions and policy prescriptions. In the face of so many disagreements, casual observers hide behind the attitude that Afghanistan is an inherently unknowable place, a “graveyard of empires” too strange and foreign to be understood. We don’t think that’s true.