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Obama's New Security Team

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May 04, 2011
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President Barack Obama's decision last week to appoint a new Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, a new CIA chief, General David Petraeus, and a new general to head the war in Afghanistan, Lt Gen. John Allen, promises no certain victory in the war in that country.

Despite the capture and killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, the strategy driving the …

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