War and Peace

—By Kevin Drum

| Sun Nov. 29, 2009 10:37 AM PST

On Tuesday Barack Obama will announce a major escalation of the war in Afghanistan.  A week later he'll be in Oslo accepting his Nobel Peace Prize.  Pretty good timing, no?

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