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Obama and the Taliban

Mark Levine | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Obama Europe, Bush, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Nato, Presidential Race, Obama, Taliban, Europe, Iraq, War on Terror, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Mark Levine

While sharing a similar ideology, al-Qa'eda and the Taliban are fundamentally distinct entities. It would behoove Sen. Obama, and his Republican counterpart, to explain exactly who the "Taliban" are they plan to fight.

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Mounting Civilian Afghan Deaths Prompt U.S. Investigation, 78 Killed This Month Alone

The Washington Post | Candace Rondeaux | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civilian Casualties, Airstrikes, Afghanistan, Nato, Politics News

KABUL -- U.S. and NATO military officials in Afghanistan have launched investigations into three separate U.S.-led airstrikes that Afghan officials sa...

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Afghan officials: US-led forces killed 9 police

AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, Warwire, Afghanistan Casualties, Nato, Afghan Police Killed, Politics News

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces killed nine Afghan police Sunday, calling in airstrikes and fighting on the ground for fo...

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Bush's Afghan Troop Plan Didn't Work, Neither Will Obama's

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nato, Senate Foreign Relation Committee, US Military, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, War, Joiint Chiefs, Vietnam, George Bush, Iraq, John McCain, Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan Troops, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama's Afghan appearance won't stop the criticism from foes that he doesn't know enough about fighting and winning a war, and that his credential as a tough guy on the war against terrorism is suspect.

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The Pak-Afghan Riddle

The Real News | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq, Afghanistan, Troops, Pakistan, Nato, Bush, NATO Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Politics News
The Real News

According to NYU's Barnett Rubin, the US has put Afghanistan "on auto-pilot" while concentrating on Iraq, forcing NATO to implement post-conflict operations while conflicts in Afghanistan are still escalating.

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Seth Colter Walls

Obama Camp: McCain's Positions On Afghanistan "Surreal" And "Confused"

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Troops, Susan Rice, Afghanistan, Nato, Barack Obama, Politics News

The conventional wisdom is that any day spent discussing national security is a good day for the McCain campaign. But Barack Obama's team appears to b...

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Seth Colter Walls

Did Obama Force McCain To Flip-Flop On Afghanistan?

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Additional Troops, Afghanistan, Nato, Barack Obama, Warwire, McCain Afghanistan, Politics News

SEE UPDATE BELOW John McCain likes to paint Barack Obama as a naive follower on key national security issues. But by moving up his planned Afghanista...

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Bombs Away?

Steven Solomon and David Kaye | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dublin, Cluster Bomb Treaty, Cluster Bombs, Nato, European Union, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Steven Solomon and David Kaye

A variety of pressures compelled the NATO powers in Dublin to support a ban in principle while preserving American flexibility to use cluster munitions in joint operations with allies that might join the treaty.

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The Year of the Taliban

Jamal Dajani | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, War on Terror, Isaf, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nato, Taliban, Afghanistan War, War in Afghanistan, Terrorism, Opium, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

Since the invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban have been getting stronger day by day. Now midway into 2008, all indications lead us to believe that the balance seems to be tilting in their favor.

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Bombs kill 5 foreign troops in Afghanistan

AP | STEPHEN GRAHAM | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Nato, NATO Troops, US Troops, Politics News

KABUL, Afghanistan — Roadside bombs killed five foreign troops and five government soldiers Saturday, part of a surge of violence that has made ...

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NATO and the New Cold War

Conn Hallinan | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Cold War, Sco, China, Nato, Richard Nixon, Alliances, War, Eastern Bloc, Geopolitics, Politics News
Conn Hallinan

Military alliances are always sold as things that produce security. In practice they tend to do the opposite -- NATO is an alliance in trouble.

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NATO, Afghan Troops Move In Against Taliban In Kandahar

AP | NOOR KHAN and JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Afghanistan, Nato, Taliban, NATO Taliban, Nato Fights Taliban, Nato Battles Taliban, Afghanistan Troops Taliban, Politics News

ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — Backed by helicopters firing missiles, hundreds of NATO and Afghan forces hunted Taliban militants in villages outside ...

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Taliban Fighters Take Over Several Afghan Villages Outside Kandahar

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, Warwire, Taliban, Kandahar, Taliban Fighters, Taliban Militants, Nato, Taliban Fighters Afghan Villages, Taliban NATO Fighting, Politics News

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces killed more than 15 insurgents during a hunt for inmates who fled prison after a sophi...

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Condi Rice: Back to the Future

Patrick Barry | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nato, Condoleezza Rice Foreign Affairs, Condoleezza Rice, Kagan, Bush Administration, Foreign Affairs, Rice, Europe Allies, Iraq, Rumsfeld, Mccain, Afghanistan, Politics News
Patrick Barry

If you try to square Rice's Marty McFly analysis in Foreign Affairs with the state of the world today, you end up with a catalog of faulty recommendations and squandered opportunities.

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The Lame Duck's European Vacation

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Europe, Nato, Clinton, European Union, Mccain, Afghanistan, Obama, Kyoto, Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Bush Europe, Obama Europe, Lame Duck, Barack Obama, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Bush's European agenda is typically detached from the real world, as has been almost every other agenda that he has ever taken to Europe.

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In Albania

Mona Gable | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Kosovo, The Maternal Is Political, Nato, Albania, Living News
Mona Gable

In May of 1999 I flew from Budapest into Tirana, the desiccated capital of Albania. I had come to this city at the edge of the Adriatic to follow a group of American doctors and nurses as they journeyed to the refugee camps.

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Will a Secretary of State Under Obama Attempt to Abolish Nukes?

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nato, Secretary of State, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Obama, Nonproliferation Treaty, Republicans, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Hiroshima, Politics News
Russ Wellen

Sam Nunn as secretary of defense might be an inspired choice. Or perhaps a new position should be created, and Nunn could be secretary of nuclear de-proliferation.

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Underreported, Underexposed

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 04.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Shia, Iran, Nato, Clinton, Cheney, The Green Light, Iraq, Obama, Rumsfeld, Torture, Media News
Allison Kilkenny

You know what? I feel better. All that real-world stuff was bumming me out. Maybe venturing through the world of celebutards is the modern form of meditation.

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Essence Of The Bush Legacy

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 04.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Photography, New York Times, Iraq, Nato, Wmd, Bush, Cartier-Bresson, Media News
Thomas de Zengotita

I know I am not alone in noticing how extraordinary the Times has been the implicit insights and commentaries in so many of the photographs they published over the same period.

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NATO Allies Turn Down Bush Request

AP | TERENCE HUNT | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Nato, George Bush Ukraine, Ukraine NATO, Georgia NATO, Politics News

BUCHAREST, Romania — President Bush suffered a painful diplomatic setback Wednesday when NATO allies rebuffed his passionate pleas to put former...

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Is NATO Dead or Alive?

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: NATO Balkans, NATO Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Nato, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

The next administration will need to work overtime to achieve consensus on what this alliance actually does and why NATO matters. It will have a very short initial window of opportunity.

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NATO Enlargement -- The View from Athens

Amb. Alexandros P. Mallias | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Macedonia, NATO Enlargement, U.N., Nato, Greece, Politics News
Amb. Alexandros P. Mallias

Greece welcomes the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to NATO, provided our northern neighbor agrees to a name that differentiates the new Balkan state from the Greek province of Macedonia.

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World's Worst Nuclear Proliferator? Better Stay Away from Mirrors

Russ Wellen | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nato, Nuclear Arsenal, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Npt, United States India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act, Womd, Kaveh Afrasiabi, Nuclear Warheads, Asia Times Online, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, International Atomic Energy Agency, Politics News
Russ Wellen

The Bush administration likes to think of itself as nuclear policeman to the world.

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Kosovo: The Hypocrisy of the U.S. Cries to Respect International Law

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Serbia, Nato, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Kosovo, President Bush, Belgrade, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

The Bush administration's quick recognition of an independent Kosovo has given us a powerful reminder that empire is bipartisan, as are the tactics and rhetoric and bombs used to defend and expand it.

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Up to 80 Killed in Afghan Bombing

AP | ALLAUDDIN KHAN and JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, Warwire, War on Terror, Nato, Suicide Bomber, Suicide Bomber Afghanistan, Taliban, Politics News

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber penetrated a crowd watching a dog-fighting competition in the Taliban's former stronghold Sunday, killi...

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