The report comes as U.S.President Barack Obama weighs a new strategy for the eight-year war, including a request by military leaders for thousands of additional troops.

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The president said that includes bringing the Iraq war to a responsible end and pursuing a new, comprehensive strategy to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida and its allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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It seems I'm not the only conservative in America who has doubts about the necessity of a nation-building war strategy.

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The Panel views the two-military-theater-of-war construct as a force-sizing function and not a strategy.

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Yet those who complain she lacks a grand strategy to subdue a messy post-cold war world may be missing the point about Albright.

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