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Afghanistan Timetable Raises Questions

latimes.com | Paul Richter and Julian E. Barnes | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

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Reporting from Washington - President Obama's timetable for rapidly expanding and then shrinking U.S. force levels in Afghanistan, a central feature o...

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Gates: Afghanistan Failure Would Have 'Severe Consequences'

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — A deeply skeptical Congress on Wednesday resigned itself to President Barack Obama's escalation of the Afghanistan war, even as the...

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US Troops Hopeful Obama Plan Will Wind Down War

AP | DENIS GRAY | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

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FORWARD OPERATING BASE AIRBORNE, Afghanistan — U.S. service members in Afghanistan said President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 more tr...

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Commentary: Not Enough Troops For Afghanistan Counterinsurgency

Posted 12.02.2009 | World

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By C.M. Sennott, GlobalPost BOSTON -- Standing before cadets at West Point but speaking to a wide and skeptical audience in America, Afghanistan an...

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Ten Short Explanations for Obama's Afghan Surge

Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

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Many of Obama's supporters are trying to figure out why he keeps pursuing policies we thought we were voting against. I can't figure it out, but I've come up with some possible explanations.

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Messages From Afghan Citizens About The War (VIDEO)

Posted 12.01.2009 | World

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While much of the debate about Afghanistan here in the States has been focused on how to adjust the U.S.'s war strategy, the latest video from the Ret...

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Afghan Officials Fear Talk Of Exit Strategy

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

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KABUL — Afghan officials hope President Barack Obama's address on Afghanistan won't be weighted too heavily on an exit strategy – even tho...

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White House Emphasizes The Positive In Afghanistan, With Hopes Of Gaining Support For Troops

latimes.com | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

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The United States is developing a set of benchmarks to ensure that Karzai fights corruption and inefficiency, instituting a "monitoring and verificati...

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Military Divorces Edge Up Again In 9th Year Of War

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The toll for a nation long at war is evident in military homes: The divorce rate in the armed forces edged up again in the past yea...

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Obama Promises To 'Finish The Job' In Afghanistan

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — War-weary Americans will support more fighting in Afghanistan once they understand the perils of losing, President Barack Obama dec...

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Obama's Afghanistan Decision: 34,000 More Troops And An Exit Strategy, Reports Say

Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House braced for a tough sell of President Barack Obama's long-awaited decision on whether to commit tens of thousands of...

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Cost Estimates Of Afghanistan Troop Buildup Vary Widely

Posted 11.23.2009 | World

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President Obama may soon find himself in an increasingly uncomfortable position when it comes to funding the anticipated buildup of U.S. troops in Afg...

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4 US Service Members Die In Afghan Attacks

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home

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KABUL — Bombings and shootings killed 12 people across Afghanistan, including four American troops and three children, as President Barack Obama...

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White House: No Afghan Decision Before Thanksgiving

The Cable | Josh Rogin | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

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The Obama administration won't announce its new comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan until after Thanksgiving, a White House official c...

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Army Data Show Constraints On Troop Increase Potential

washingtonindependent.com | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

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If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he will be deploying practically every available U.S. Army brigade to ...

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Soldier Suicides This Year To Top Those In 2008

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Soldier suicides this year are almost sure to top last year's grim totals, but a recent decline in the pace of such incidents could...

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Obama: Decision Soon On Troops For Afghanistan

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

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TOKYO — President Barack Obama declared Saturday that an era of American disengagement in the globe's fastest-growing region is over and warned ...

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Karl Eikenberry Dissents On Afghan Troop Increase

Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

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Ahead of today's meeting of Obama's national security team to discuss Afghan war strategy, Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and a m...

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Missing US Soldier's Body Found In Afghan River

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

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KABUL — Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who disappeared last week along with another soldier as the two tried to retri...

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Obama Looking For The "American Bridge" Out Of Afghanistan

Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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While President Obama continues to mull over his options for adding more U.S. troops to the mission in Afghanistan, he is also pressing for an increas...

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Number of wounded troops in Afghanistan increasing

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Far from winding down, the numbers of U.S. soldiers coming home wounded have continued to swell. The problem is especially acute am...

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Afghans Doubt More Troops Could Help

New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 11.07.2009 | World

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As Americans, including President Obama's top advisers, tensely debate whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, Afghans themselves are hav...

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Why The U.S. Should Accept Defeat And Start Withdrawing From Afghanistan

Foreign Policy | John Mearsheimer | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

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The conventional wisdom among most Republicans is that while the United States had serious difficulty in Vietnam during the early years, by the early ...

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George McGovern: Get U.S. Troops Out Of Afghanistan

Truthdig | Narda Zacchino | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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George McGovern has some advice for President Barack Obama: Get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. "I'm convinced that war is going to turn sour. I'm co...

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Admit It: We Don't Really Think About the Troops

Douglas MacKinnon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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For us, the troops are invisible. They don't exist. They don't count. For the folks I speak with from the military, it really has come down to, "Let us go big or let us come home."

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