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Hoh's letter added that "I do not believe any military force has ever been tasked with such a complex, opaque and Sisyphean mission as the U.S. military has received in Afghanistan."

Norman Solomon: Biggest State Party to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan 2009

Stories on the Washington Post website about what the U.S. is doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan - including the story on Hoh's resignation - are introduced by a "header" that says:

Robert Naiman: WaPo Slants Afghan News with Biased News Header 2009

Hoh's policy prescription deals mainly with settling the civil war between the "Taliban" and the GoIRA.

Derrick Crowe: An Interview With Matthew Hoh 2009

She now agrees with Hoh's assessment on Afghanistan.

Authoritative Rejection of Afghanistan War 2009

Afghanistan looms large as Obama and the Democratic Party's Vietnam, if Hoh's warning is not heeded.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Obama Should Tear Up Matthew Hoh's Afghan War Resignation Letter 2009

Now, I may be reading Hoh's words through a filter.

David Quigg: Basic Truths in Hoh Resignation Letter Were True When He Took His Job 2009

Hoh's doubts increased with Afghanistan's Aug. 20 presidential election, marked by low turnout and widespread fraud.

According to Matthew Hoh, it is Time to Leave Afghanistan 2009

Searching through the Washington Post and the New York Times for the past year, I could not find a single news article in which the idea that a civil war existed in Afghanistan at any time following the U.S. invasion in 2001 was mentioned, with the exception of the Washington Post article about Hoh's resignation.

Robert Naiman: Obama's Decision on More Troops to "Someone Else's Civil War" 2009

This is probably why Richard Holbrooke, the top U.S. envoy to the region, told the Post for that same Tuesday article that "I agreed with much of (Hoh's) analysis."

David Quigg: Basic Truths in Hoh Resignation Letter Were True When He Took His Job 2009

Obama's tin ear to Hoh's warning about flawed administration policy could be disastrous politically and personally for him.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Obama Should Tear Up Matthew Hoh's Afghan War Resignation Letter 2009