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

The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Afghanistan War, Nato, Afghan Election, Tribes, Durand Line, Kabul, Middle East, Taliban, Policy, Hamid Karzai, Afghan War, Chicago, Afghan Strategy, Un, South Waziristan, Soviet Union, Pentagon, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Troop Levels, Terrorism, Pashtun, Foreign Policy, Kashmir, Insurgency, Al Qaida, State Department, Pashtunwali, Soviet Afghan War, Counterinsurgency, World News

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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Afghanistan: Eight Years On and No Direction Home

Paul Fitzgerald | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Post Cold War National Security State, Hazara and Uzbek, Afghan American Women’s Association, Sima Wali., Northern Alliance, Pashtun, Tajik, General Mcchrystal, World News
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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Matthew Hoh: A Great American Patriot

Malou Innocent | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

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Malou Innocent

Counterinsurgency--the U.S. military's present strategy--requires a legitimate host nation government, which is not in the foreseeable future regardless of who's president.

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It's a Runoff, Now What? Parsing the Impacts of the Presidential Rematch in Afghanistan

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Senator John Kerry, Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, Isaf, President Barack Obama, Afghan-Runoff, Taliban, Pashtun, Al Qaeda, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tajik, Rahm Emanuel, Northern Alliance, Nato, Independent Electoral Commission, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, General Stanley McChrystal, Afpak, Kai Eide, Afghan Election Fraud, Afghanistan Karzai Abdullah, Afghanistan Run-Off Election, World News
Vikrum Aiyer

A coalition government in Afghanstan, while supposedly offering the best of both worlds, tacitly condones an illegitimate election and would require America to broker power among competing personalities.

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Taliban YouTube Channel: Group Creates YouTube Channel To Spread Propaganda (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Istqlal, Afghanistan, Channel, Terrorism, Pakistan, Taliban, Fareed Zakaria, YouTube Channel, Pashtun, Portlant, Istqlalmedia, Youtube Videos, Youtube, New Media, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Taleban, Sharia, World News

The enemy in Afghanistan has discovered YouTube. CNN's Fareed Zakaria briefly reported on the Taliban's foray into new media during his show on Su...

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Lies Drive the Afghan War

Eric Margolis | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: 9/11, Afghanistan, Pashtun, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, World News
Eric Margolis

The claim that al-Qaida will reuse Afghanistan as a giant base camp, like Saddam's non-existent weapons of mass destruction, is a handy slogan to market the war to the public.

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Afghan Deputy Intelligence Chief Among 23 Killed In Taliban Suicide Blast

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Laghmani, Suicide Bombers, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, War in Afghanistan, Afghan War, Suicide Bomber Afghanistan, Taliban Afghanistan, Surge in Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban, Pashtun, Afghanistan War, World News

KABUL — A Taliban suicide bomber attacked officials leaving a mosque east of the capital Wednesday, killing the country's deputy intelligence ch...

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HuffPost Review: Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi

Katya Wachtel | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Daniele Mastrogiacomo, Christian Parenti, Afghanistan, Mullah Omar, Kabul, Fixer Documentary, Shia, Taliban, James Nachtwey, Pashtun, Afghanistan War, Kalashnikov, Kandahar, Mullah Dadullah, NATO Afghanistan, Nato, Taliban Beheading, Fixer, Ian Olds, Ajmal Naqshbandi, Rolodex, Northern Pakistan, Occupation Dreamland, Journalists, Foreign Correspondents, Journalists Afghanistan, World News
Katya Wachtel

This is the story of one of the thousands of silhouettes who roam war-zones every day so that we, thousands of miles away, can grasp what is happening on the front-line of wars that affect life on this continent too.

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Afghanistan: Could Britain be Losing its Appetite for War?

Cedric Perrier | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

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Cedric Perrier

Defense is clearly at the sharp end of the Government's ongoing budget cuts. Yet British coffers alone may not be the only reason Brown is willing to stand firm.

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Sundance Film Afghan Star Incredible

Jim Luce | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Kabul, Islam, Sundance Film Festival, Islamic Council, Britain’s Got Talent, Pakistan, United Nations, Adam Lambert, The Kite Runner, Democracy, Mathew Luce, Film, Dari, Oprah Winfrey, Muslim, Havana Marks, Pashtun, Herat, Taliban, Documentary, Rachel Reid, Pop Idol, Dance, Afghanistan, Sharia, Ismail Khan, American Idol, Afghan Star, Incredible, Mujahiddeen, Barack Obama, World News
Jim Luce

Afghan Star is the perfect window into a country's tenuous, ongoing struggle for modernity. What I would normally consider frivolous entertainment is downright revolutionary here.

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Battleground Lahore: Taliban in the City

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

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Shirin Sadeghi

The insurgents that the Pakistani and U.S. forces are battling are various fronts of poor, largely uneducated men doing what their ancestors have done for centuries: defending the Pashtun way.

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Obama's Policies Making Situation Worse in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Graham E. Fuller | Posted 06.10.2009 | World

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Graham E. Fuller

Only moderate Islamists themselves can prevail over the radicals whose main source of legitimacy comes from inciting popular resistance against the external invader.

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Picking and Choosing Enemies in Afghanistan

Hedieh Mirahmadi | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Warlord, Afghanistan, Ansar Islam, Pashtun, Pakistan, Fata, Gulbuddin-Hekmatyar, Richard Holbrooke, Hizb-E-Islami, World News
Hedieh Mirahmadi

We cannot ignore the ideological underpinnings of our enemy and empower them to fight us another day. The question is how do we tell the difference between a warlord and a global jihadist.

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Selling War: Struggling to Make the Case to Fight Terrorism, Again.

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Yousaf Raza Gilani, Supplemental Budget, John Murtha, John Conyers, Congress, Lynn Woolsey, Atlantic-Council, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Terrorism, Pakistan, Hussain Haqqani, George W. Bush, President Obama, Taliban, Bush Unilateralism, Fata, Pashtun, Al Qaeda, Nato, Afpak, World News
Vikrum Aiyer

Obama's proposed tactics in the AfPak region have certainly been scrutinized, but truly vocal criticisms have maintained low decibel levels... until now.

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Many Afghans Oppose Obama Troop Surge

Christian Science Monitor | Anand Gopal | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

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Ms. Barakzai is among the growing number of Afghans - especially in the Pashtun south - who oppose a troop increase here, posing what could be the big...

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Afghanistan: A Complicated Place With A Misconstrued History

Asia Times | By Pepe Escobar | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, President Obama, War in Afghanistan, Pashtun, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, Afghanistan War, Taliban, Afghanistan, United States, Mujahideen Fighters, Foreign Affairs, World News

Afghanistan is not only the graveyard of empires; it's a graveyard of misconceptions. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden believed that the mujahideen si...

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Has Washington Run Out of Patience with Hamid Karzai?

Jeff Stein | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

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Jeff Stein

The grumbling about Afghan President Hamid Karzai has grown so loud you'd think the Obama administration has given up on him.

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Taliban Show Increasing Strength And Confidence In Afghanistan

Los Angeles Times | Paul Watson | Posted 02.11.2009 | Home

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Reporting from Ghazni, Afghanistan -- The main highway is "enemy territory" for the Taliban, a busy two-lane road where U.S. troops race down the midd...

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Benazir the Martyr: an Anniversary on the Brink of War

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 01.28.2009 | World

Read More: Lahore, Benazir Bhutto Assassination, Benazir Bhutto Cause of Death, Rawalpindi, Pakistan War on Terror, War on Terror, Benazir Bhutto, Nusrat Begum, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto Assassinated, Mumbai Attacks, Murtaza Bhutto, Bhutto Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto Killed, Pakistan Democracy, Pathan, Pashtun, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

As the anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's assassination comes and goes, some people in Pakistan have quietly concluded that getting assassinated was the best thing she ever did.

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Obama Must Learn to Play Cricket

Frankie Martin | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Australia, Islam, War on Terror, Pakistan, Politics, Iraq, US Foreign Policy, David Kilcullen, State Department, Barack Obama, Baseball, Us Surge Iraq, Pashtun, Pervez Musharraf, Akbar Ahmed, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Cricket, World News
Frankie Martin

Americans began to understand tribal culture and tribal codes of honor and hospitality. And they realized that organizations like Al-Qaeda were antithetical to traditional culture.

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Islamabad Bombing Shakes Pakistan

Eric Margolis | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, General Pervez Musharraf, Islamabad, Islam, John McCain, John McCain 2008, U.S. Troops and Iraq and Home, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Pervez Musharraf, Islamabad Marriott, General Asif Nawaz, Pashtun, Pakistan Suicide Bombing, Politics News
Eric Margolis

The Marriot attack is further proof that Pakistan is edging ever deeper into outright civil conflict at a time when the stalemated war in Afghanistan is steadily seeping into Pakistan.

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