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Hillary Clinton, in a just-published piece on the Afghanistan mission (see note at bottom), offers us nothing helpful or enlightening, only boilerplate American slogans, the kind of stuff you’d hear from some provincial congressman giving a Fourth of July speech in a place like Muncie, Indiana.
President Obama Hosts Reception for Honorees, then Attends Awards Ceremony Celebrating the Arts
Hillary Clinton offers to meet with anyone concerned about whether the trial was tainted by "anti-Americanism" feelings. The future of Amanda Knox's life may now rest in the hands of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
n Defense secretary's comments cast doubt on hopes for major July 2011 drawdown
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will press Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, NATO’s only Muslim member, for more support in curbing Iran’s nuclear program and rebuilding Afghanistan.
The Associated Press
In a bid to counter criticism, the White House says July 2011 will only start the withdrawal.
For decades, the overriding assumption in U.S. diplomacy was that the United States could do it all — or simply had to do it all. Other nations were pretty much assigned the roles of bit players. Or so the theory went. Case in point: Turkey.
President Obama and his family did the traditional lighting of the White House Christmas tree Wednesday on the Ellipse. That same day he continued the more recent, lower-key tradition, begun by Bill Clinton and followed by George W. Bush, of approving a waiver every six months to legislation that calls for the government to begin moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Gala night honoring those who have defined American culture through the arts
The Associated Press Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaeda leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
National security adviser James Jones said Sunday that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan. Most recent U.S. estimates have placed bin Laden inside Pakistan. But Jones, a retired general, said the best estimate is that bin Laden "is somewhere in North Waziristan, sometimes on the Pakistani side of the border, sometimes on the Afghan side of the border."
Pakistan has acknowledged a growing threat from within its borders and is changing its attitude toward fighting terrorists, U.S. officials say.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Pakistanis have experienced a change in attitudes about fighting terrorism as they see a growing threat to their own nation.
Ashgabat (AFP) Dec 2, 2009 - Wiping back the tears from his bloodshot eyes, Andrei struggles to understand why nobody seems to care that he has become a prisoner inside his own country's borders.
