Posts Tagged ‘ Afghanistan ’

Some good news for the women of Afghanistan: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke briefly yesterday about the need for Afghan women and girls to be involved in the transition of security to the Afghan military. Clinton made these remarks at an international conference yesterday in London on the subject of Afghan...
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Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army colonel and 1969 West Point graduate who served in Vietnam and in the Persian Gulf, is now a professor of international relations at Boston University. A sharp critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, where his son, a first lieutenant, was killed by an improvised explosive device two and...
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Filed under: AfghanistanSome international contractors, hired by the United States to build roads and other large construction projects in Afghanistan, are paying Taliban insurgents not to attack them and to act as their security guards, according to allegations filed with the Pentagon and other U.S. investigative agencies. The allegations are part of widening U.S....
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Filed under: Senate, Republicans, John McCain, AfghanistanSenator John McCain said Tuesday that President Obama made the "right choice" in sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, but warned that setting a withdrawal timetable sends the wrong message to U.S. allies and enemies. "I think this policy can succeed . . . and I think...
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Markos talks with MSNBC's Ed Schultz about President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan on The Ed Show, arguing that while President Obama is following through on his campaign position to escalate the war in Afghanistan, going forward the President’s Afghanistan policy will be judged on whether he can follow through on his promise to bring...
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Markos joined Jack Rice on The Ed Show Wednesday afternoon to talk about the importance of avoiding the Afghanistan trap that so many others have fallen into, including the former Soviet Union. Here's video: Transcript:    SCHULTZ: Welcome back to THE ED SHOW.    President...
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A little over two weeks ago, basing their story on unnamed sources, McClatchy's Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef reported that the White House was nearing a decision to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan in response to General Stanley McChrystal's strategic assessment of the situation there. Soon, CBS reported...
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Joining the cast of characters who were wrong about Iraq and who are now demanding that President Obama act now on a decision about troop levels in Afghanistan, is David Broder. But Broder's call for a rush to more war comes with a twist ... or should I say twisted ... that even...
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In the past two days, several news reports have indicated that President Obama plans to add tens of thousands of new U.S. troops to the 67,000-member contingent that is already in the country. McClatchy first reported the supposed decision on Saturday and other media outlets, including CBS News, the Associated Press and others. ...
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Well this pretty much tells you everything you need to know about what Republicans think is really important: appearing on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Georgia Republican U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss endorsed a new economic stimulus package...for Afghanistan. Developing Afghanistan's economy may be a laudable goal, but it's too...
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