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The scariest thing Gen. McChrystal told Congress about Afghanistan. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate MagazineAt an otherwise uneventful hearing before the House Armed Services Committee this morning, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said something that should confirm and heighten most people's apprehensions about the war's escalation. McChrystal noted that he has accumulated ...
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Transportation officials confident in Afghan deploymentU.S. Transportation Command officials are confident they can accomplish the mission of delivering 30,000 U.S. troops and their equipment to Afghanistan when they are needed. Planners at the command based at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., are working with operations specialists at U.S. Joint Forces ...
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America wakes up to the shift in global power | Andrew Sullivan - Times OnlineLast Tuesday night was a sobering affair if you are a supporter of America’s engagement with the world. In his defining speech on Afghanistan at the West Point military academy, Barack Obama’s own tone was extremely sober, and at times he seemed close to choking up as he weighed sending more ...
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Obama's War Speech Woke the Sleeping Giant -- Anger Over Afghan Surge Fuels Country-Wide Protests | World | AlterNetObama's War Speech Woke the Sleeping Giant -- Anger Over Afghan Surge Fuels Country-Wide Protests The president's announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan this week prompted protests in over 80 communities across the country. CODEPINK issued an alert on Thursday, December 3 , about the ...
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Suicide attackers kill 35 at Pakistan mosque - Yahoo! NewsMilitants stormed a mosque frequented by Pakistani army officials, killing at least 35 worshippers during Friday prayers as they sprayed gunfire and threw grenades before blowing themselves up, officials said. The strike was part of a wave of by Islamist insurgents that has killed more than 400 ...
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Obama: The Audacity Of Hopelessness...With Obama's massive troop escalation (can the Nobel Peace Prize be rescinded?) he's made Afghanistan his war, reminiscent of President Johnson's Vietnam War escalation. At the current death rate of 500 soldiers per year the events depicted in the film will soon become a shattering reality for ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Johnson, Gorbachev, Obama - NYTimes.comJohnson, Gorbachev, Obama Imagine you’re a villager living in southern Afghanistan. You’re barely educated, proud of your region’s history of stopping invaders and suspicious of outsiders. Like most of your fellow Pashtuns, you generally dislike the Taliban because many are overzealous, ...
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The commendably missing element from Obama's speechBy Glenn Greenwald "While Obama's speech last night largely comported to what his aides spent days anonymously previewing, there was one (pleasantly) unexpected aspect: he commendably dispensed with the propagandistic pretext that we are fighting in Afghanistan in order to deliver freedom and ...
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Obama’s Surge Strategy in Afghanistan - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.comObama’s Surge Strategy in Afghanistan Updated, Dec. 1, 3:50 p.m. | Celeste Ward Gventer, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense, says there is no military solution to Afghanistan. Updated, Dec. 1, 3:30 p.m. | According to Paul Clarke, a retired Air Force officer, Obama’s plan is the ...
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U.S. forces missed chance to get bin Laden in 2001 - Yahoo! NewsThe U.S. military could have captured or killed Osama bin Laden in 2001 if it had launched a concerted attack on his hideout in Afghanistan, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The report, written by staff working for the Democratic majority on the ...
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