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Afghan debate overshadows Obama’s Peace Prize

Source: Russia Today
Kabul : Afghanistan | 2 months ago  
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  • US marines take up positions during an operation to clear the area of Taliban insurgents in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan
    US marines take up positions during an operation to clear the area of ...
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  • US President Barack Obama
    US President Barack Obama
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US marines take up positions during an operation to clear the area of ...
Critics say it was inappropriate since the US president is considering deploying more troops to one of America's foreign wars. Throughout 2009, Afghanistan looked like an authentic war zone: bullets fired, IED’s exploding and an increasing number of US soldiers killed each day.
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  • News Source: Fox News | about 1 month ago
    Top Republican senators escalated their call Sunday for President Obama to grant Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops in Afghanistan, and one prominent Democrat warned that a failure to do so could jeopardize U.S. forces.  The Obama...
  • News Source: The Hill | about 1 month ago
    McCain was asked Sunday on CNN’s "State of the Union" if American forces could prevail with a surge of fewer than 40,000 troops. “I do not,” responded McCain, Obama’s GOP rival for the presidency in 2008. “I think the great danger now is...
  • News Source: Star Tribune | about 1 month ago
    Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama will make a huge error if he does not substantially increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The Arizona senator, who was Obama's Republican opponent for the White House last fall, said it is...
  • News Source: The Journal Gazette | about 1 month ago
    Thousands of foreign fighters have come to Afghanistan to bolster the Taliban insurgency, the country’s defense minister said Saturday as he called for more international troops. He made those remarks as the U.S. debates whether to substantially...
  • News Source: Russia Today | about 1 month ago
    Critics say it was inappropriate since the US president is considering deploying more troops to one of America's foreign wars. Throughout 2009, Afghanistan looked like an authentic war zone: bullets fired, IED’s exploding and an increasing number...
  • News Source: Washington Post | about 1 month ago
    Sen. John McCain says the coverage of his exchange with President Obama at a White House meeting last week has been vastly overblown. "There was no sharp exchange whatsoever," he said in a telephone interview. "To say that there was anything to it --...
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  • Blog Source: flapsblog.com
    Senator John McCain on The Today Show this morningLinkage of Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and more troops are among the recommendations to the.
  • Blog Source: allthingshillaryclinton.blogspot.com
    We know that the Taliban is-- regrouping and showing momentum in Afghanistan. And what their ultimate goals are may not be clear, but certainly if they were able to control great swaths of Afghanistan or even eventually take .... And the National
  • Blog Source: justoneminute.typepad.com
    That PoS Chuck Hagel was in the same camp. I honor both men for their service, and McCain in particular for his, but that's about as far as I can go. They're both self-promoting squishes who prove that sometimes people make the right ...
  • Blog Source: holgerawakens.blogspot.com
    The fact is that all military commanders in the Afghanistan theater have been imploring the President with the same message yet Obama has decided upon his own strategy of dealing with the War in Afghanistan and that strategy of Obama's will decimate
  • Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.com
    The White House is taking pains to downplay conflict between the executive branch and the Pentagon over Afghanistan policy, as President Obama steps up his focus on the still-unresolved war plan. "I get that the Washington game is to do ...
  • Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
    President Obama's national security team is moving to reframe its war strategy by emphasizing the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan while arguing that the Taliban in Afghanistan do not pose a direct threat to the United States, .... Um, CNN just
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