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CBS News: Obama Has Decided To Send Almost 40,000 Troops To Afghanistan

CBS News | Font Size Print E | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more tro...

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Stop U.S. Meddling; Support Afghan Women at the Table

Jodie Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women, Codepink, Democracy, Afghanistan, Peace, Jodie Evans, US Afghanistan, Malalai Joya, Hamid Karzai, Women's Rights, Afghanistan-Parliament, John Kerry, Politics News

Women's rights (which are, in fact, human rights) will never rise from a corrupt, fundamentalist government. We need to be supporting the voices of women to nurture change in Afghanistan.

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The Most Famous Woman in Afghanistan

Vivien Lesnik Weisman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact

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Malalai Joya is the one-time youngest member of Parliament who has survived four assassination attempts on her life and routinely lambastes the Taliban, the Karzai government and President Obama.

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U.S. Seeks To Limit Warlords In Karzai Cabinet

Inter Press Service | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

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By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for dec...

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Karzai Must Heal Afghanistan's Divisions

Gerard Russell | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

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President Karzai has promised to rule inclusively after his contested victory. But this must mean more than just how he forms his government.

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Afghanistan: Obama's Fantasy Island

Michael Brenner | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

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Obama will do the predictable next week and sign on to plans for an expanded American commitment in Afghanistan. In truth, he could not do otherwise -- for three reasons.

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Fiasco Royal in Afghanistan/Humiliation in the Mideast

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

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Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, kept squabbling and trading charges of fraud until the election pre-rigged by Washington fell apart. The real ruler of most of Afghanistan remains the US military and Obama.

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What Obama Is Up Against

Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.

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5 British Troops Killed By Afghan Cop, Says UK Military

AP | ELENA BECATOROS and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

KABUL — The killing of five British troops by a rogue Afghan policeman underlines concerns about training and discipline within the ranks and po...

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Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

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The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.

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Afghanistan: Eight Years On and No Direction Home

Paul Fitzgerald | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

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That failure has finally occurred in Afghanistan and the consequences will be devastating, yet Washington continues along in a dreamlike haze, narrowing the argument to simplistic Vietnam era clichés while the world moves on without it.

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My Exclusive Interview with Ken Guest -- Journalist/Analyst on Afghanistan (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

The path out of the Afghan quagmire lies in making the Afghan tribes the cutting blade of the strategy, not the US forces or the Afghan National Army.

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U.S. Sends Paparazzi to Find Bin Laden

Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.02.2009 | Comedy

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In a bold new strategy designed to locate the world's most wanted man, the United States today dispatched a team of paparazzi to find Osama bin Laden.

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Gibbs: Karzai Is The "Legitimate Leader"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration said on Monday that it now considers President Hamid Karzai to be the "legitimate" leader of Afghanistan, despite widespread ...

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White House Giving Karzai Six Months To Shape Up

New York Times | David E. Sanger | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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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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Nick Horne, Resigning UN Officer: We Must Force Political Change In Afghanistan, Or Fail

Times Online | Nick Horne | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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Two days ago, I left the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan because, as I stated in my resignation letter, "I have believed for some time that the m...

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Too Big to Fail?: Why All the President's Afghan Options Are Bad Ones

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

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Our leaders evidently never saw a war to which the word "more" didn't apply. Hence the Afghan War, where impending disaster is just an invitation to fuel the flames of an already roaring fire.

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Karzai Effectively Handed 2nd Term After Abdullah Drops From Afghan Election

AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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KABUL — President Hamid Karzai effectively secured a second term Sunday when his only challenger dropped out of the race, and the Obama administ...

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Abdullah Withdraws From Afghan Election

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

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President Hamid Karzai's rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election has announced that he is withdrawing from the poll....

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Afghan Election Runoff Not Affected By Abdullah Abdullah's Call For Boycott: Hillary Clinton

AP | Posted 10.31.2009 | Home

JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Abdullah Abdullah's call for a boycott of next weekend's runoff election in Afghanist...

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Obama Seeking Options To Send Fewer Troops To Afghanistan

washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut and Greg Jaffe | Posted 10.31.2009 | World

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President Obama has asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late F...

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Abdullah May Pull Out Of Afghan Runoff

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 10.31.2009 | World

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UNITED NATIONS — Talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and challenger Abdullah Abdullah have broken down, and Abdullah is likely to pull o...

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Power Sharing - the Fix-it-All from Honduras to Zimbabwe

Sandip Roy | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

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It's good to know they have brokered a power-sharing deal in Honduras. Manuel Zelaya is happy. Roberto Micheletti said he had made a "significant con...

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Afghan Panel Rejects U.N.'s Election Runoff Advice

Guardian | Jon Boone | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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The chances of another disastrous round of voting in Afghanistan's presidential race increased dramatically today after the country's election authori...

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Afghanistan, Again: The Thicket Obama's Not Getting Out Of

William Bradley | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

We can't afford to build a nation in Afghanistan. We have one reasonable goal there, and everything else, no matter how seemingly noble it may or may not be, is a luxury.

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