Obama holds crisis meeting on Afghanistan
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Afghan police checks a supporter of Afghan President Hamid Karzai ...Source: Reuters
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By: anonymous194554
Afghanistan, Afghanistan, what’s a President to do? All his options are bad ones. Raise the troop levels and give the Taliban a run for it’s money? For what? To support a corrupt aristocracy? Bad idea. So should he keep the troop levels the same? That just places the soldiers already there in harm’s way, and for no good purpose whatsoever. ...
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In Iraq and Afghanistan it is Horrific and Horrific and don't forget Pakistan! As you know, three helicopters just crashed in Afghanistan killing 14 Americans supposedly in no hostile accidents, during the night another 8 UN workers were killed. In Iraq the dual car bomb explosions that destroyed three Government Ministry ...
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US will not rush more troops to Afghanistan, says President Barack ...
By: ahadsarkar
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has said he would not rush into a decision over whether to send more US troops to Afghanistan. "I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you in the harm's way. I won't risk your lives unless it's absolutely necessary," Obama told a gathering of some 3,500 military personnel at a ...
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- News Source: United Press International | about 1 month agoDepartment of State senior civilian representative in Zabul province, Afghanistan . His recent resignation was based not on "how we are pursuing this war" but "why and to what end."...In my opinion, many of his observations ring true, but one could...
- News Source: CNN | about 1 month agoA top Taliban political leader delivered a message Friday to President Obama, calling his attempt to lure away Taliban fighters with money "an old weapon that has failed already." "The Mujahedeen of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan are not...
- News Source: AKI | about 1 month agoA roadside bomb killed at least eight civilians in eastern Afghanistan on Friday as their vehicle drove by in the district of Khogyani in Nangarhar province, according to officials. The dead included a woman and had been on their way to a local...
- News Source: Jerusalem Post | about 1 month agoOn Sunday, 153 people were killed and more than 500 wounded in back-to-back car bombings in Baghdad. On Tuesday in Kabul, five UN staffers and three Afghans were killed in an attack on a UN guesthouse...For now, the battle is being played out mostly...
- News Source: National Public Radio | about 1 month agoStill unknown is how the president will come down on a request from his top commander there for additional U.S. troops. Any decision will require funding by Congress, and that's bound to put some Democrats on the spot about an increasingly unpopular...
- News Source: CNSNews.com | about 1 month agoWould we invade Iraq? While these two wars have cost 5,200 dead, a trillion dollars and a divided America facing an endless war, what have we won? Gen. Stanley McChrystal needs 40,000 to 80,000 more troops, or we risk “mission failure” in...
- Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.comAs for McChrystal, he already begun carrying out elements of his targeted counterinsurgency plan, which focuses on the volatile south and east of the country and emphasizes protecting civilians even if it means allowing individual militants to escape.
- Blog Source: www.theepochtimes.comUS military chiefs plan to present recommendations on troop strength and strategy in Afghanistan to President Obama.
- Blog Source: www.democraticunderground.comSenior White House officials Wednesday stressed, however, that the president has not settled on any new troop numbers and continues to debate other strategic approaches to the 8-year-old Afghanistan war. The officials say Obama has not ...
- Blog Source: www.capitolhillblue.comSenior White House officials Wednesday stressed, however, that the president has not settled on any new troop numbers and continues to debate other strategic approaches to the 8-year-old Afghanistan war. The officials say Obama has not ...
- Blog Source: blogs.wsj.comObama witnessed the return of 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan this week, as October became the deadliest month for U.S. troops since the Afghanistan war started eight years ago. Obama made the trip – leaving the White House just ...
- Blog Source: www.thefinancialexpress-bd.comSuch a narrowed military mission would increase American forces to accomplish the commander's broadest goals of protecting Afghan cities and key infrastructure. But with fewer troops, the strategy likely would cut back on McChrystal's ...
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@donlemoncnn we're talking solutions in afghanistan an how to help our troops. what do you want to know? should the prez send more troops?
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@jaketapper in case u missed it: Obama Administration Invokes State Secrets Privilege…Again > http://digg.com/u1FQmm
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@JoeNBC @RyanSchick When Bush took office in 2001, it was $5.7T. When he left it was $10.5T. Obama budgets a $20T debt in the next decade.
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@markknoller But Gibbs assures that Obama cannot and will not meet "in perpetuity" on this issue. Decision expected in next two weeks or so.
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@markknoller At today's meeting Obama will be discussing recommendation for additional troops with Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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@stevebruskCNN Pentagon estimate puts cost at additional $20 billion a year if President sends 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan
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