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Frank Rich: The Missing Link Between Fort Hood And The War In Afghanistan

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Islam, Afghanistan War, Terrorist Attack, Homeland Security, Fort Hood, Kabul, Obama, Media, Afghan War, Lieberman, Hoekstra, White House, Al-Qaida, Killeen, Liberal Media, Joseph Lieberman, Ft. Hood, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Troop Levels, Joe Lieberman, Democrats, Army, Democratic Party, Taliban, Nidal Hasan, Muslim, Peter Hoekstra, Republicans, Politics News

For all the right's jeremiads, its own brand of political correctness kept it from connecting two crucial dots: how our failing war against terrorists...

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Obama In Flux

William Bradley | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaeda, Tony Blair Dmitri Medvedev, Iran, Singapore, Democratic Party of Japan, Pakistan, 9/11, Korea, Russia, Taliban, Palestine, Israel, Nobel Peace Prize, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Asia, Barack Obama, European Union, World News
William Bradley

As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.

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Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan

Robert Naiman | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Stanley McChrystal, The Nation, Boston Globe, Taliban, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, World News
Robert Naiman

Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome? There is something very Captain R...

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Blast At Spy Agency In NW Pakistan Kills Seven

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Peshawar, Jihad, Peshawar Bombing, Terrorism, Pakistan, Taliban, South Waziristan, Islamists, Al Qaeda, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and st...

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Taliban-Shot Video Shows Attack That Killed 9 US Soldiers In July (VIDEO)

Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Video, Taliban Video, Taliban Attack Video, Afghanistan War, Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan, Attack in Afghanistan, Taliban, US Soldiers Killed, Thaliban Attacking Us Post, Abc News Taliban Video, World News

ABC News has obtained a video shot by the Taliban that shows their attack on a U.S. outpost in Wanat, Nuristan that killed nine American soldiers on J...

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Pentagon Funds Taliban Who Are Killing US Troops

Bruce Wilson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Taliban, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bruce Wilson

We're paying to send American troops to Afghanistan and we're also paying Afghans insurgents who will see to it that those troops come back in caskets: a crazed, pointless machinery of death.

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Paying Peter to Kill Paul

Jon Soltz | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Private Contractors, Blackwater, Afghanistan, President Obama, Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Contractors, Xe, Taliban, Triple Canopy, Breaking News, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, World News
Jon Soltz

American and NATO service members deserve better than to possibly die fighting an insurgency that even American contractors admit is being funded by the Department of Defense.

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Colin Powell To Obama On Afghanistan Troop Decision: "Take Your Time"

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Karzai, Handover, Afghanistan, Exit Strategy, Troop Levels, Pakistan, Timeline, Kabul, Afghanistan Strategy, Obama, Taliban, Withdrawal, Foreign Policy, Mcchrystal, White House, Al Qaida, Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Tom Joyner, Afghanistan Decision, Politics News

In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell reveale...

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Afghanistan: Buckle Your Seat Belts

Michael Brenner | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Stanley McChrystal, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Taliban, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, World News
Michael Brenner

Rarely has a great power so willfully set itself down the path of self-destruction with so little reason as America has in Afghanistan. This is pathological behavior that cries out for diagnosis and correction.

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Cairo to Fort Hood: Broader Engagement at Home and Abroad

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Science Envoy Program, Islam, Fort Hood, Physicians, Veterans Day, Anderson Cooper, In the Land of Invisible Women, Taliban, Waco, State Department, Barack Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Al Qaeda, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Zakat, Islamophobia, Unabomber, Jihad, Armistice Day, Saudi Arabia, Cnn, Insomnia, New York Times, Nidal Malik Hasan, Hillary Clinton, Muslim, Obama Cairo Speech, Ground Zero, Politics News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.

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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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Pakistan's Half-hearted Military Offensives Aren't Enough

Saad Khan | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Sirajuddin Haqqani, NATO Afghanistan, North Waziristan, Pakistani Taliban, Afghanistan Insurgency, Afghanistan Us Casualties, Taliban, South Waziristan, Pakistan, World News
Saad Khan

The Pakistani military has launched an offensive against the Taliban in the South Waziristan region, but it isn't working. To effectively fend off the militants, a much stronger effort is needed.

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20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?

Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Mujahedeen, Berlin Wall, Al-Qaeda, United States in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Superpower, Ussr, Cold War, Moscow, Taliban, War on Terror, Soviet Union, World News
Loretta Napoleoni

Remarkably, Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future. It is paradoxical that the graveyard of one superpower should become a battlefield for the other.

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Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Al Qaeda, Mahmoud Abbas, Barak, Emir of Qatar, Islamists, Extremism, Ammar Mousawi, Peace Process, Bernard Kouchner, Palestine, Lebanon, Obama, Hezbollah, Hamas, Shiite, Lieberman, US State Department, Middle East, Usama Hamdan, Cairo, Oprah, Taliban, Khaled Meshaal, Israel, US President, Resistance, Abu Mazen, Hassan Nasrallah, Us, Terrorism, Sunni, World News
Sharmine Narwani

While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.

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NATO, Afghans Claim To Kill 130 Taliban In Kunduz Province

Reuters | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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NATO and Afghan officials claimed on Monday their forces had killed at least 130 Taliban fighters in a major operation over the past week in an area o...

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Pakistan Suicide Bomb Kills 12: Mayor Targeted In Attack On Peshawar Suburb

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Peshwar, Suicide Bomb, World, Pakistan Security, Al Qaida, Eid, Pakistan, Suicide Bombing, Terrorism, Pakistani Security, Adazi, Taliban, Peshwar Market, South Waziristan, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a market in northwest Pakistan crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, ...

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Pakistan Fashion Week Defies Taliban (PHOTOS)

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 11.09.2009 | Style

Read More: Burqa, Pakistan Fashionista, Pakistani Fashion, Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan Fashion Week, Runway, Taliban, Fashion Show, Slideshow, Style News

By CHRIS BRUMMITT, Associated Press Writer KARACHI, Pakistan — Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others...

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The Taliban's Ties to Al-Qaeda

Will Marshall | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Al-Qaeda, Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Al-Qaida, Taliban, Islamists, Al Qaeda, World News
Will Marshall

How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.

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Was Hillary's Image-Boosting Exercise in Pakistan a Success?

Saad Khan | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Hillary Pakistan, Kerry-Lugar Bill, Peshawar Bombing, Pakistan Corruption, Pakistan Army, Taliban, Pakistan Aid, South Waziristan, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, World News
Saad Khan

If the United States wants to win some hearts in Pakistan, its aid should go to organizations directly working for public health and education. It's time to engage with the common Pakistani.

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"Pretend Secrecy" Shields the White House from a Drone Missile Debate

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Esquire, US Drone Missiles, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, Taliban, Drones, Al Qaeda, Freedom Forward, World News
Sanjeev Bery

It is time to set aside the notion that U.S. drone missile attacks in Pakistan are some kind of secret.

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UN Relocating About 600 Staff After Afghan Attack

AP | DEB RIECHMANN and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Taliban, Afghanistan, UN Afghanistan, United Nations, World News

KABUL — The United Nations is sending about 600 foreign staff out of the country or into secure compounds because of the deadly Taliban attack o...

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Obama Faces Revolt From Generals Over Strategy In Afghanistan

Rolling Stone | Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, White House, Afghanistan, Obama War in Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Troop Levels, General David Petraeus, Obama, Joe Biden, Taliban, Sen. John McCain, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Obama's War, Biden, Insurgency, The-Institute-for-the-Study-of-War, Counterinsurgency Field Manual, Petraeus, General Stanley McChrystal, Counterinsurgency, Us Troops Afghanistan, Politics News

In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...

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Assassinations, Peace and State Violence in India and Pakistan

Abdul Malik Mujahid | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Sikh, India, Punjab, Indira Gandhi, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Truth Commission, Akal Takht, Taliban, Forgiveness, Modi, Hindu, Amritsar, Military, Naxalites, Security, Muslim, Justice, Gujarat, Reconciliation, World News
Abdul Malik Mujahid

As Indians mark the death anniversary of Indira Gandhi, Sikhs renew their call for justice, and Pakistan bleeds with terrorism, it is important to reflect on justice, reconciliation and forgiveness.

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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

Read More: Uk, Afghan National Security Forces, Voter Fraud, Karzai, Afghan Election, Afghanistan, Afghan, Kabul, Nad-E-Ali District, Helmand, Afghan Cops, Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Mcchrystal, Insurgency, Kandahar, Nato, Un, Stanley McChrystal, Counterinsurgency, Afghan Police, World News

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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Matthew Hoh: U.S. Has Lost Track of Why It Is in Afghanistan

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Taliban, Matthew Hoh, Afghanistan, Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda, Foreign Policy, World News
Steve Clemons

The first U.S. government official to formally resign his post because of objections to America's course in Afghanistan makes a compelling case that America has lost its strategic sensibilities in this war.

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