Afghanistan is ‘his war now,’ Time magazine says

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We did not ask for this fight,’’ President Obama told the cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point this week in announcing an escalation -- and also the start of a troop draw-down -- of the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan.

‘It’s his war now,’’ Time magazine declares on the cover of an edition that contains a pointed criticism of a president, whom writer Joe Klein accuses of trying to have it both ways -- ramping up and ratcheting down a war at the same time.

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-- Mark Silva