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US Seeks Up To 7,000 More NATO Troops For Afghan War

Wall Street Journal | PETER SPIEGEL and STEPHEN FIDLER | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

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U.S. and European estimates of the new troops they may get from NATO allies vary from 3,000 to 7,000. Those would complement the additional U.S. force...

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Pelosi: Karzai Is An 'Unworthy Partner'

Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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In an interview with NPR Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Afghan President Hamid Karzai, calling him an "unworthy partner" who wasn't deserv...

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U.S. Resetting Its Relationship With Karzai

washingtonpost.com | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinn...

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Hamid Karzai Sworn In For Second 5-Year Term As Afghan President

AP | KATHY GANNON and ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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KABUL — For his critics, President Hamid Karzai's inaugural speech Thursday struck all the right notes – sober pledges to get tough on cor...

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Pakistan Courthouse Bombing Kills 16 In Peshawar

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A blast early Friday killed two police offers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwe...

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Matthew Hoh, Daniel Ellsberg Discuss Aghanistan, Vietnam Wars (VIDEO)

Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Matthew Hoh and Daniel Ellsberg, recently sat down for a conversation about the war in Afghanistan. Matthew Hoh made headlines late last month when ...

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Anatomy of an Afghan Culture of Corruption

Pratap Chatterjee | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Pratap Chatterjee

The tale of the "reconstruction" of Kabul's electricity supply is a classic story of how foreign aid has often served to line the pockets of both international contractors from the donor countries and the local political elite.

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High Cost Of War Weighs On Obama's Troop Decision For Afghanistan

New York Times | CHRISTOPHER DREW | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

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While President Obama's decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan is primarily a military one, it also has substantial budget implications tha...

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A Real Team of Rivals

Malou Innocent | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

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Malou Innocent

Obama's hesitancy in Afghanistan is an implicit recognition that the United States might not succeed in laying a centrally administered facade onto Afghanistan's preexisting society.

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The War Stampede

Norman Solomon | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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Norman Solomon

After 30 years of war, Afghans do not need more ingenious war efforts by the latest batch of best and brightest in Washington.

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Clinton: U.S. Concerned About Afghan Corruption

Reuters | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

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The United States is concerned about corruption and poor governance in Afghanistan and has raised those issues with the administration of President Ha...

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An Open Letter to President Obama About Afghanistan From William R. Polk

The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...

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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

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Jodie Evans

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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Vivien Lesnik Weisman

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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Gerard Russell

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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Michael Brenner

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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Eric Margolis

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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Russ Baker

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

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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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Robert Scheer

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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Paul Fitzgerald

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

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.

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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Andy Borowitz

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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