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Saving Face or Saving Lives? When Will Obama Lead?

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.10.2012

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Laurence J. Kotlikoff

I'm running against President Obama as a candidate for the nomination of the Americans Elect platform. But I have deep respect for him as a person an...

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Karzai: 'Airstrikes Could Undermine US Pact'

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 05.09.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's president has warned that civilian casualties caused by NATO airstrikes could undermine the cooperation agree...

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Pakistani Driving Truck Bomb Arrested In Afghanistan

AP | Posted 05.04.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's intelligence agency prevented a large terrorist attack, arresting a Pakistani citizen driving a truck packed ...

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Deadly Attack On Afghan Capital Hours After Obama Visit

AP | AMIR SHAH and CHRIS BLAKE | Posted 05.02.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — At least six people have been killed in an early morning suicide attack in the Afghan capital, the Afghan government said. ...

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US And Afghanistan Finalize Agreement

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 04.23.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. and Afghanistan reached a deal Sunday on a long-delayed strategic partnership agreement that ensures Americans wil...

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Karzai: US Troop Photos 'Disgusting'

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 04.19.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of three suicide bomb...

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US, NATO Prepare Afghanistan Handoff

AP | ANNE GEARAN and SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 04.18.2012

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BRUSSELS — Several NATO allies promised Wednesday to underwrite Afghanistan's armed forces after foreign troops depart, as the United States and...

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Bumping Up Presidential Elections?

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 04.12.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's president raised the prospect Thursday of holding presidential elections a year early to avoid a potentially ...

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Night Raids: US And Afghanistan Sign Deal

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 04.08.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. and Afghanistan signed a deal Sunday giving Afghans authority over raids of Afghan homes, resolving one of the mos...

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Why Are We in Afghanistan?

Ethan Casey | Posted 05.05.2012

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Ethan Casey

Why are we in Afghanistan? I really don't know anymore. We fear -- with some real cause -- that "Islamists" hate America and want to bring us down. But does that fear justify committing atrocities ourselves?

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Blown Away

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 04.29.2012

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Tom Engelhardt

Despite its massive firepower and staggering base structure in Afghanistan, actual power is visibly slipping away from the United States. American officials are already talking about not panicking (which indicates that panic is indeed in the air).

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Help Arrives for Afghan Children Freezing to Death

Dorian de Wind | Posted 04.15.2012

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Dorian de Wind

This past Saturday, American troops delivered 1,000 blankets for the 6,000 refugees in the Kabul Charahi Qambar camp -- the same camp where several children have already died from the cold.

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U.S. Military Tests Revolutionary New Drone

AP | By SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 03.08.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S. military is testing a revolutionary new drone for its arsenal, a pilotless helicopter intended to fly cargo missions to...

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U.S. Staging 40 Raids In Afghanistan Every Night

time.com | Mark Benjamin | Posted 11.19.2011

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Counter-insurgency is so 2007. Everybody knows that Republicans and Democrats have quietly agreed that flooding some dusty foreign land with U.S. troo...

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Afghan Concerns Over U.S. Staying Power

Jayshree Bajoria | Posted 11.07.2011

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Jayshree Bajoria

The United States and Afghanistan disagree on several points regarding a limited troop presence past 2014, starting with how binding the agreement should be.

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Why China’s 'Free-Riding' In Afghanistan And Iraq Is OK

Posted 10.15.2011

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By Richard Weitz, The Diplomat China’s limited support for the US-led counterinsurgency campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, despite the gr...

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Stop Sacrificing US Soldiers for Afghan Debacle

Medea Benjamin | Posted 10.07.2011

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Medea Benjamin

Let's tell President Obama that the best way to pay tribute to the soldiers who have died -- and to address our financial crisis -- is to bring the rest of the troops home.

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U.S. Lost 1,560 Soldiers In Afghanistan

AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 09.18.2011

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-- As of Tuesday, July 19, 2011, at least 1,560 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan ...

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Pakistan: Drone Attacks Are Wrong, Regardless

Ethan Casey | Posted 09.18.2011

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Ethan Casey

Drone attacks are wrong. I'm sure to be called an appeaser of terrorists for saying that, particularly in light of the latest events in Mumbai. But I ...

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Why Didn't Military Officers Investigate "The Kill Team" Sooner?

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 05.28.2011

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Project On Government Oversight

What's most interesting about the Rolling Stone article, which offers a thorough look at how American soldiers in Afghanistan allegedly murdered Afghan civilians, is that it raises questions about military officer accountability.

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Gates: U.S. Should Stay Involved In Afghanistan

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States is beginning to decide what its responsibilities will be in Afghanistan after U.S. combat troops leave, D...

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Sam Stein

Lindsey Graham Supports Drawdown Of U.S. Troops In Afghanistan Next Summer

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of the chief foreign policy voices of the GOP, said on Sunday that he now supports a drawdown of U.S. forces in cert...

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WikiLeaks: Why Aren't Heads Rolling?

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patricia DeGennaro

The approximately 91,000 reports from the war in Afghanistan that were leaked to Wikileaks.org caused cries of outrage. Unfortunately this outrage was for all the wrong reasons.

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General George Casey: US Could Be At War For Another Decade

CBS News | Christine Delargy | Posted 05.25.2011

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General George Casey, the Chief of Staff of the Army, said today the United States could face another "decade or so" of persistent conflict in Iraq an...

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Film Review: Camp Victory, Afghanistan

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stewart Nusbaumer

If you watch only one film on Afghanistan, make it Camp Victory, Afghanistan. You will have a front row seat for the most crucial U.S. military mission in Afghanistan.

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