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Obama Voices Caution on Afghan Troop Increase

Kabul : Afghanistan | 2 months ago  
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President Obama expressed skepticism on Sunday about sending more American troops to Afghanistan until he was sure his administration had the right strategy to succeed. “Right now, the question is, the first question is, are we doing the right thing?
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  • News Source: Inter Press Service | 2 months ago
    The leak of the "initial assessment" of the war in Afghanistan by Gen...McChrystal, the top commander in the war, with its blunt warning that "[f]ailure to provide adequate resources" is likely to result in "mission failure", was part of an obvious...
  • News Source: Guardian Unlimited | 2 months ago
    They are used to disguise a situation where Nato-led forces, in the first joint ground operation by the most powerful alliance in the history of the world, is in danger of losing a counter-insurgency operation against a brutal enemy driving around in...
  • News Source: Times Online | 2 months ago
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  • News Source: The Scotsman | 2 months ago
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  • News Source: 7days | 2 months ago
    US Army General Stanley McChrystal’s assessment does not, though, say how many more troops he wants. That request will come in a separate document that McChrystal has drawn up but not yet submitted to the Obama administration. Once McChrystal makes...
  • News Source: Times Online | 2 months ago
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