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31 minutes ago ago from Underground Dissident
December 9, 2009 Leave a Comment 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 Pakistan if their ...
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3 hours ago ago from newsandwx.com
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette President Barack Obama's decision to escalate the Afghanistan war by sending in more troops also has serious implications for the United States in Pakistan. Mr. Obama made it clear last week that he considers Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of the same theater of war within which American forces will operate until the conflict ends. Administration officials who visited Pakistan recently have told that ...
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23 hours ago ago from Changing Turkey in a Changing World
Stacy Maruskin ( ISRO/USAK, TURKEY ) Since last week, the world has been abuzz with news of the Obama administration's new strategy in Afghanistan: a troop increase and surge in the country's mountainous terrain. America is divided over Obama's announcement and a plethora of harsh words have been churned out over this latest policy initiative. His strategy not only includes sending 30,000 American soldiers into further battle but ...
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13 hours ago ago from Free Thought Manifesto
By Peter Lee December 4, 2009 Courtesy Of Asia Times Online Beijing will find little cause for joy in United States President Barack Obama's decision to dispatch 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, as outlined in a major policy speech on Tuesday. Geopolitical logic (and China's interests) would dictate that the West disengage from Afghanistan and the Pashtun brief be placed in the eager if not particularly capable hands of ...
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14 hours ago ago from Dr Nasir Khan
Barry Grey, wsws.org , Dec 9, 2009 One week ago, President Obama in a speech at West Point sought to portray his escalation of the war in Afghanistan as the prelude to an early withdrawal of US troops. It has since become increasingly apparent that the speech was nothing more than a calculated exercise in public deception. The speech was crafted to chloroform the public, the better to defy and disorient mass popular opposition to ...
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9 hours ago ago from Good News Now
WASHINGTON -Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry says what happens in Pakistan is as critical to American success in South Asia as what happens on the ground in Afghanistan. Kerry said "it would be a mistake in Pakistan or anywhere to believe" that President Barack Obama's statement about drawing down forces by mid-2011 in Afghanistan means the United States would be withdrawing from the region. Speaking at the start of a ...
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