Hillary Clinton Afghanistan

Clinton On Surprise Visit To Kabul

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 12.19.2011

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is encouraging Afghanistan's wary leadership to keep up Taliban reconciliati...

Clinton Legacy Tied To Women's Rights

Ida Lichter, M.D. | Posted 09.09.2011

Ida Lichter, M.D.

Many Afghans fear the exit of foreign troops will leave the field open to the Taliban, who will flow into the vacuum, capture regions and resume the restrictions and punishments of severe sharia law.

Clinton To NATO: Be Prepared For 'Most Destructive And Sensational Attacks' Yet In Afghanistan

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 06.14.2011

BERLIN — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned NATO allies on Thursday against bringing forces home from Afghanistan too soon, e...

Amanda Terkel

Hillary Clinton Labels Arizona Shooter An Extremist 'Motivated By His Own Political Views'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- While many are still debating whether Saturday's tragic shooting in Arizona was politically driven, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton s...

Grasping at 'Turning Points' in Afghanistan

Tom Andrews | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom Andrews

The Obama administration's credibility erodes every time it dusts off and redeploys the tired "turning point" mantra to describe a war and a strategy that continues to go from bad to worse.

Obama Afghanistan Timeline No Guarantee Of Troop Withdrawal

Politics Daily | Patricia Murphey | Posted 05.25.2011

On the day after President Obama laid out his new Afghanistan strategy, the question of when American troops would leave the country quickly drew the ...

Is Obama Bullshi*tting About 18 Month Afghan Withdrawal to Appease War Critics?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

Miles Mogulescu

Those of us who worked to elect Obama owe those young cadets something better than the continuation of the George Bush long-war strategy that Obama is offering them.

Hillary Clinton Makes Surprise Visit To Kabul arrives in Kabul for Karzai inauguration

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011

KABUL — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stressed Wednesday that the United States will keep pressing the Afghan government to cra...

How Obama Homed In On Timeline For Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal

The Los Angeles Times | Christi Parsons and Julian E. Barnes | Posted 05.25.2011

It started out as a projection from the military, intended only for the ears of the president and his top advisors. But in a war council meeting at th...

WashPo: Hillary Clinton Largely Invisible On Big Foreign Policy Issues

washingtonpost.com | Glenn Kessler | Posted 05.25.2011

With the exception of former senator Edmund S. Muskie's brief turn as secretary of state at the end of the Carter administration, Hillary Rodham Clint...

UN Plans Afghanistan Summit In Kabul For The First Time

guardian.co.uk | Jon Boone in Kabul | Posted 05.25.2011

The United Nations is planning to host an international summit on the future of Afghanistan for the first time in Kabul as an attempt to bestow credib...

Clinton Skipped Senate Afghanistan Hearings To Campaign

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011

In the past few days, as Hillary Clinton has intensified her attacks on Barack Obama prior to the all-important primaries in Ohio and Texas, she has c...