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Wishful Thinking and Poor Planning: State Department Wastes $80 Million in Afghanistan

Peter Van Buren | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, State Department, Mazar-E-Sharif, Washington Post, Politics News
Peter Van Buren

Why does the State Department consistently make poor decisions? Everyone makes mistakes, but what we have here is a long, long litany of obvious bad decisions, so obviously bad one cannot help but wonder how smart people made them.

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Twin Attacks Kill Dozens, Injure More Than 100 In Afghanistan

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Video, Bombings, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghan War, Kabul, Ashoura, Afghanistan Violence, Abdul Raouf Taj, Mazar-E-Sharif, Shiites, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan — In Afghanistan's first major sectarian assault since the fall of the Taliban regime a decade ago, a suicide bomber slaughte...

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6 Guards Beheaded In Afghan Bank Heist

AP | DEB RIECHMANN and AMIR SHAH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Afpak, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan Bank Heist, Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan Beheading, Kabul Bank, Mazar-E-Sharif, Nato, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have issued a new code of conduct ordering fighters to protect civilians – as long as they don't side wit...

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Afghan Soldier Kills 4 At Training Range

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Two American civilians and two Afghan soldiers were killed in a shooting on a northern Afghan military base, NATO said. An...

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Abdul Rashid Doostam: Afghanistan's Damoclean Sword

Camelia Entekhabi-Fard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, Abdul Rashid Dostum, General Atta, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Presidential Election, Afghanistan Election, Mazar-E Sharif, Abdul Rashid Doostam, Balkhhad, General Doostam, World News
Camelia Entekhabi-Fard

For Karzai, General Doostam is the only person who can break the unity of the north. And so against the wishes of the U.S. and Turkey, General Doostam came back to Afghanistan.

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Obama and the Afghan Election: What It Means, What It Doesn't

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Kandahar, Nato, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kabul, Northern Alliance, Hamid Karzai, Special Forces, Mazar-E-Sharif, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban, World News
William Bradley

The Obama administration should sigh with a sense of relief after the election in Afghanistan -- the Taliban failed in their threat to halt the election, and were unable to pull off any of the promised attacks.

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