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Military Time, Civilian Time
4 hours ago ago from OBAMAers Dot Com
The strategic benefits of setting a timeline may outweigh its tactical costs, if it persuades President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan to make progress stabilizing Afghanistan.
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21 hours ago ago from Open Your Eyes News
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that Afghanistan would not be able to pay for its own security until at least 2024, underscoring his government’s long-term financial dependence on the United States and NATO even as President Obama has pledged to begin withdrawing American troops in 2011. Read article
Related contentU.S.-NATO: Looking for Common Ground in Afghanistan
9 hours ago ago from Pakistan Politics
Interviewee: Robert E. Hunter, Senior Advisor, RAND Corporation Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman , Consulting Editor, CFR.org Former U.S. ambassador to NATO Robert E. Hunter says that the NATO alliance is under pressure from the United States to increase force levels in Afghanistan. He says that very few European countries believe that prevailing in Afghanistan "is necessary for their own security," but they go along with Washington ...
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8 hours ago ago from Maiz Centeotl Chicomecoatl
The Peace Candidate Myth By WILLIAM BLUM CounterPunch All the crying from the left about how Obama "the peace candidate" has now become "a war president" ... Whatever are they talking about? Here's what I wrote in this report in August 2008, during the election campaign: We find Obama threatening, several times, to attack Iran if they don't do what the United States wants them to do nuclear-wise; threatening more than once to attack ...
Related contentAfghan Taliban has a Problem with Some of My People (in South Korea)
19 hours ago ago from Views from the Occident (Twitter Specials)
Apparently, the Afghan Taliban has a problem with some of my people, those in South Korea. It seems the group is a bit miffed at reports that some South Korean troops will take part in the NATO mission in Afghanistan. The usual dire warnings and threats follow. My response: Below is a statement from the Afghan Taliban, which refers to itself as the "Islamic Emirate [state] of Afghanistan" (as it did in the 1990s). The statement is run ...
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West Urges Afghanistan to Delay Election
7 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
KABUL -- Afghanistan's Western backers increasingly favor postponing the nation's parliamentary election, scheduled for May, fearing that another traumatic -- and potentially fraud-marred -- campaign will undermine the coalition's counterinsurgency strategy and create a new round of political turmoil. The decision on when to hold the parliamentary poll rests with President Hamid Karzai's administration and the Independent Election ...
Related contentBritain needs to see Afghan progress: minister
19 hours ago ago from PopEater
KABUL -British Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth said Thursday that NATO's fight in Afghanistan will be difficult and slow, but that the mission can be finished "in a reasonable time" if Afghans really do start taking the lead in security. Ainsworth met with Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak in the Afghan capital during a three-day trip to the country amid waning support back home for Britain's military campaign in Afghanistan. ...
Related contentBarry Yourgrau: Obama's Nobel Speech: Wyatt Earp Does Mother Teresa
16 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Some first thoughts on Obama's acceptance speech. For instance, this passage: "Evil does exist in the world. A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al-Qaida's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism -- it is a recognition of history, the imperfections of man and the limits of reason." Am I wrong to see a rhetorical attempt here to ...
Related contentBob Churcher: Afghanistan and Pakistan: Anatomy of a Proxy War
12 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Obama's Afghan surge and new strategy attempt sophistication and nuance, but fail to grasp the terrible complexities of the Afghan war. In his speech the President noted two key issues: Afghanistan's rampant corruption and the problematic role of Pakistan. But these problems are more vexing than he admits. I know the depth of these problems from study and from years of -- sometimes bitter and disappointing -- experience working in ...
Related contentCynthia P. Schneider: Reading the (Three Cups of) Tea Leaves on the Afghan Strategy
8 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
On the same day President Obama unveiled his strategy for Afghanistan, Greg Mortenson published his second book, Stones into Schools , which continues the extraordinary tale begun in his best seller Three Cups of Tea of his mission to "promote peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan". The response of the American people to the Afpak strategies presented by the two men has differed dramatically. President Obama's speech has ...
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