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US President To Announce 30,000 US Troop surge to Afghanustan
President Barack ObamaBarack Obama plans to send about 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan over six months, an administration official said on Tuesday, in an accelerated deployment aimed at a quicker US exit from the eight-year war The deployments, which...
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7 years more for the Afghan war?
Seven years more is still a lot more both in the number of lives that will be lost and the cost to the US taxpayer. Of course the war supporters will complain about the entitlements that are causing the huge deficit in the US. No doubt entitlements...
Tags: US in Afghanistan, Robert Gibbs, Stanley McChrystal, Afghan exit strategy, Obamas Afghan strategy, Afghanistan
United States: An Uncertain Partner
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has returned back after “the successful visit”, the diplomatic term used for such visits. There was no doubt in Secretary Clinton’s truthful efforts in the shape of meetings with...
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The 9th and last war council: We Hope!
Those in attendance included: Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton, Secretary of Defense Bill Gates, Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg,...
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Obama's Rubicon
Presidential Strategy Likely Includes More Troops And Negotiations By Robert Weller Even as more evidence emerges in Britain that the Iraq War was not justified by a real threat, the word from Washington seems...
Tags: obama, surge, casualties, negotiations, cease-fire, afghanistan, vietnam, lies, allnews, Pat Tillman, Dick Cheney, Hamid Karzai, Henry Kissinger, War in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Luo people, Robert Weller, Punahou School alumni, Stanley McChrystal, War Conflict, Kabul
Turning the tribes
MCCLATCHY reports that Barack Obama will send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan. That would fall short of General Stanley McChrystal's "low-risk option" of sending an additional 80,000 troops. And it falls in between the general's "high-risk option" (20,000...
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Can Obama succeed in solving the problem of Afghanistan?
Do you withdraw Obama from Afghanistan? Do you take a bold step this withdrawal? Does the new experience of Alsacip Foreign Affairs? Questions we ask In the following days see the results and actions. The White House said President Barack Obama...
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President Obama to announce Afghanistan surge next week
President Obama will next week announce a surge of at least 25,000 new US troops to Afghanistan in a speech to the nation, according to US officials today. Mr Obama will make the announcement in an address on Tuesday, December 1, after weeks...
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US to GIVE TALIBANS JOBS in AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan has launched an initiative to convert Taliban foot soldiers with the promise of jobs and protection. Backed by the US military, the plan is modeled on its “Sons of Iraq” program; Stanley McChrystal even lured a key architect...
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Obama Calls for Security Meeting on Afghanistan
U.S. President Barack Obama has called another meeting of his national security team as he moves closer toward a decision on whether to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. U.S. President Barack Obama has called another meeting of his national security...
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