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by Walter Alarkon - 07/15/08 9:44 AM ET

Associated Press Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier, who urged White House aide Karl Rove to “keep up the fight” in the wake of former pro football player Pat Tillman’s combat death in Afghanistan, is also the writer who suggested that Barack Obama was “bordering on arrogance” and that John McCain had “pragmatic resolve,” writes Attaturk. The Taliban must be delighted with U.S. tactics in Afghanistan, where an American bomb has killed about 50 people at a wedding and has thus undermined efforts to win hearts and minds, Attaturk writes.

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