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Defence in the Media: 11 December 2009
9 hours ago ago from Defence News
Bob Ainsworth Afghanistan Secretary of State for Defence Bob Ainsworth was questioned by CNN yesterday on the reasons behind the ISAF military effort in Afghanistan and who the enemy in the country was. Mr Ainsworth said: The enemy is the Taliban who ran Afghanistan, who provided safe havens for Al-Qaeda and international terrorism. That would happen again were we not here, and if we are not able to stabilise the Afghan state. The problem ...
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13 hours ago ago from Koine Community in Portland.
It's so easy to do these days. Years ago you would have to pick up a pen and paper or sit down at the typewriter with your eraser ( what a godsend white-out was! ). Then you'd have to find a mailing address, put your letter in an envelope and wait for perhaps 3-4 weeks for the mail to be opened by a staffer. Now our representatives in Congress can be contacted by e-mail, Twitter, facebook and who knows what else. I've now sent all three of ...
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9 hours ago ago from Afghanistan
Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday with a muscular speech defending the US-led offensive in Afghanistan while admitting his accomplishments were "slight" compared with the "giants" who had won the award in the past. Andrew Ward reports for the Financial Times . The US president insisted that "the instruments of war do have a role to play in preserving the peace" as he sought to reconcile the prize with his decision two ...
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12 hours ago ago from Dr Nasir Khan
Morning Star Online , Thursday 10 December 2009 by Tom Mellen Obama collects the Nobel prize after sending even more troops to Afghanistan US President Barack Obama has accepted his Nobel Peace Prize, just nine days after sending 33,500 more US troops to prosecute his bloody counter-insurgency war in Afghanistan. In a speech at the glitzy acceptance ceremony in Oslo Mr Obama insisted that ...
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23 hours ago ago from SBE Breaking News
Obama speaks on Afghanistan war in his Nobel Peace' Prize speech Presidents Obama receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway and in his acceptance speech he talks of war in Afghanistan . Different reactions are emerging on the surface about his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech . According to the details, President Obama arrived in Oslo, Norway to receive his Nobel Peace Prize along with his wife Michelle Obama . Ironically, ...
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William Bradley: Obama's Lincolnesque Nobel Peace Prize
5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Who expected, two months ago when the surprise award was announced, that President Barack Obama, in accepting his Nobel Peace Prize, would deliver a speech that in many respects is about the ethics of war? Obama has surprised many with his escalations in Afghanistan, and in winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I was surprised by his winning the Nobel. It's undeserved, as I wrote here on the Huffington Post right after it happened two months ago. ...
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17 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
If any further evidence were needed of the distance between running for president and being president, it came Thursday in Oslo as President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. The politician who had sought the White House as the champion of the antiwar forces in his party spoke as the commander in chief, offering a principled defense of waging just wars. This Story The incongruity of a ...
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1 day ago ago from PopEater
OSLO -Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine. Evil must be vigorously opposed, he declared as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday. At the same time, he made an impassioned case for building a "just and lasting peace." "I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American ...
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6 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Who knew Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter would emerge as one of the most vocal opponents in the Senate of the President's military escalation in Afghanistan? But so it is. In an op-ed this week in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Specter not only challenges the "surge"; he also challenges fundamental premises of the war. Specter writes : I'm opposed to sending 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan because I don't believe they are ...
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1 day ago ago from Huffington Post
"The surge of troops is needed to provide us with time and space to further build our own security forces," stated the Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S. Said T. Jawad at my Center on Politics & Foreign Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies last week in Washington, D.C. Speaking to a crowd of 100 guests with the speech carried live on C-SPAN, the Ambassador pointed out that American troops are in his ...
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