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Afghanistan: A Whole New Approach

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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Jim Wallis

When you massively intervene in a country as much as the U.S. has in Afghanistan, you can't responsibly just walk away. We must lead with what works -- development.

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Gen. McChrystal Is No MacArthur

Jeff Stein | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Communism, Afghanistan, Counter-Terrorism, Terrorism, War, Taliban, Obama, Counterinsurgency, Stanley McChrystal, World News
Jeff Stein

McChrystal is in for a rude awakening if he thinks he's a latter-day MacArthur, with a vast conservative following ready to rally to his side.

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Hardin Jail Deal Delayed Over Controversy With Mysterious Company

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home

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HARDIN, Mont. — Plans for a California company to take over this city's empty jail were put on hold Monday, following last week's revelations th...

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New York Gets New High-Tech Counterterror System

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — A network of security cameras, license plate readers and weapons sensors intended to protect lower Manhattan from terrorist threats w...

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American Police Force And Hardin: Mysterious Security Firm Gets Control Of Empty Montana Jail

TPMMuckraker | Justin Elliott | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

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A shadowy private security company that has no known clients but claims to have helped foreign governments combat terrorism and will protect anything ...

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"Exit Strategy" Might Not Be What You Mean

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: Civil-Military Relations, Afghanistan, Exit Strategy, Counter-Terrorism, President Obama, Stanley McChrystal, Counterinsurgency, Afghan Taliban, World News
Lorelei Kelly

If we want to see this president succeed, a vocabulary shift is vital. The more we use leftover framing and messaging rhetoric from the Iraq War, the easier we make it for the right wing to do the same.

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Three Choices in Afghanistan: Counter-Terrorist War, Counter-Insurgency, and Containment

Howard Schweber | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Mcchrystal, Counter-Insurgency, Counter-Terrorism, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Obama, War on Terrorism, Containment, World News
Howard Schweber

The problems that McChrystal identified with the present approach are daunting: a corrupt and illegitimate government, insurgents' use of safe havens in Pakistan, and pervasive fear and mistrust of the international forces.

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Obama, Europe's New Counter-Terrorism Plans Would Make Another Guantanamo 'Impossible'

The Guardian | Ian Traynor | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

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European governments and the Obama administration today outlined aims for a new joint regime for combating terrorism. The proposals are based on comm...

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Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Happy Campers?

Keith Thomson | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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Keith Thomson

A former CIA operations officer told me that Al Qaeda members are "happy" with the new U.S. policy that essentially has opened our interrogation playbook to them.

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The Resilience of Terror

Peter Henne | Posted 02.10.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Transition, India, Al-Qaeda, Kashmir Conflict, Pakistan, Terrorism, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Obama Administration Afghanistan, 9/11, Bush Administration Foreign Policy, War on Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, Lashkar-E-Taiba, Counter-Insurgency, Counter-Terrorism, Mumbai Attacks, Bush Administration Iraq, Obama Administration Foreign Policy, World News
Peter Henne

As we enter the last month of the Bush presidency, progressives around the country are increasing in giddiness. Given the president's legion mistakes ...

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The U.S. Attack on Syria: Implications for the Next Administration

Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.07.2009 | World

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Stephen Zunes

Obama's refusal to criticize the U.S. attack on Syria raises the prospect that rather than pursue the diplomatic route, he will instead "pick up where the Bush Administration has now ended."

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