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By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyFrustrated that his top military advisers failed to provide him an exit plan for Afghanistan, President Obama crafted his own strategy, according to a new book by Bob Woodward. In "Obama's Wars" -- Woodward's meeting-by-meeting account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review -- the president stressed that the plan to add 30,000 troops in a short-term escalation "needs to be . . . about how we're going to hand it off and get out of Afghanistan. Everything we're doing has to be focused on how we're going to get to the point where we can reduce our footprint. It's in our national security interest. ...
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By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics Daily"The Lovely Bones" is a lovely book. Alice Sebold's 2002 novel, narrated by a murdered 14-year-old named Susie Salmon as she watches over her family from heaven, was praised by critics, discussed by book groups, and sold over a million copies. The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani extolled Sebold's ability "to capture both the ordinary and the extraordinary . . . in lyrical, unsentimental prose" that displayed her "gift for making palpable the dreams, regrets and unstilled hopes of one girl and one family." As inevitably happens with successful books, the elegiac story has been rendered into ...
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