President Obama Afghanistan

Administration Official Won't Say If Combat Troops Will Be Out Of Afghanistan By 2014

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is holding the door open to having combat troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014, undercutting a promise made by the...

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The Midterms and the Role of Domestic Politics in Foreign Policy

Matthew Hoh | Posted 05.25.2011

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Given the apathy among voters this midterm towards our wars, don't expect the Obama administration to feel much compulsion to change a failed strategy as President Bush was forced to do in 2006.

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On the Iraq Speech Tonight

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011

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The war in Iraq is not over. The president must make that clear tonight. Though planned combat operations are done, every single one of the 50,000 remaining troops is a combat troop.

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David Wood: Obama Has No Afghanistan Benchmarks, Endpoint, Political Strategy

Politics Daily | David Wood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Afghan President Karzai's meetings in Washington this week ended with no sign of a badly needed joint political strategy to buttress the U.S.-led mili...

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Afghanistan War Initiative Losing Support From Liberal Lawmakers

POLITICO | Jonathan Allen and Marin Cogan | Posted 05.25.2011

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As President Barack Obama reaffirms his Afghanistan policy, he's also emboldening critics in Congress who think he should use a shakeup in commanding ...

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Obama CBS Interview: I'd Fire The Afghanistan Decision Leakers

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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AP BEIJING — President Barack Obama said Wednesday his upcoming strategy in Afghanistan will "put us on a path towards ending the war" and that ...

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Anti-War Activists Reawakened By Obama Afghanistan Decision

Politics Daily | Shahzad Chaudhary | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sitting in the front row at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, directly in sight of committee Chairman John Kerry, two women discreetly hel...

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George McGovern: Get U.S. Troops Out Of Afghanistan

Truthdig | Narda Zacchino | Posted 05.25.2011

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George McGovern has some advice for President Barack Obama: Get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. "I'm convinced that war is going to turn sour. I'm co...

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The New Strategy for Obama's War: Precision Power

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is nothing like the convergence of two equally unpleasant scenarios -- in this case the danger in Pakistan and American forces settling further into Afghanistan -- to sharpen a leader's mind.

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Kerry: McChrystal's Afghanistan Plan Goes Too Far

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A war plan that asks President Barack Obama to commit tens of thousands of additional U.S. forces to Afghanistan is too ambitious, ...

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No JFK Moment For Obama On Afghanistan

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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There's the depth of American military involvement, commitment, and the entrenched thinking that Afghanistan is the front line in the war on terrorism. Obama shares this thinking with the generals.

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White House Giving Karzai Six Months To Shape Up

New York Times | David E. Sanger | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the White House's reluctant embrace on Sunday of Hamid Karzai as the winner of Afghanistan's suddenly moot presidential runoff, President Obama n...

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Army Says Morale Has Fallen Among Troops In Afghanistan

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Morale has fallen among soldiers in Afghanistan, where troops are seeing record violence in the 8-year-old war, while those in Iraq...

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Afghanistan: Collateral Damage From Paris to Punjab

Mira Kamdar | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have seen what is antiseptically known as collateral damage from this war in two unlikely places: the city of Paris and the countryside of rural Punjab.

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MoveOn: Obama Afghanistan Exit Strategy Needed

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

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In its first direct pressure on President Obama over a major war-and-peace issue, MoveOn will call on the president today to develop an exit strategy ...

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Obama's Afghanistan Policy Sneak Peak: Ambinder

Marc Ambinder | Posted 05.25.2011

President Barack Obama's new posture toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, to be unveiled tomorrow, codifies for the first time Iran's role in regional dip...

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I Wanted to Stop Bush's Surge, but I Support Obama's Stabilization

Jonathan Powers | Posted 05.25.2011

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I hope you will join me in supporting our President Obama and our troops who work to stabilize this "deteriorating situation."

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Obama Approves Troop Increase To Afghanistan: Global Responses (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday President Barack Obama approved the deployment of 17,000 United States troops to Afghanistan, AFP reports. The move led to responses from ac...

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Obama To Renew Focus On Hunt For Bin Laden

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 05.25.2011

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The incoming Obama administration plans to explore a more regional strategy to the war in Afghanistan -- including possible talks with Iran -- and loo...

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