Between the Lines, an Expansion in Pakistan
International Herald Tribune - 4 minutes agoPresident Obama left much unsaid about Pakistan, where he can send no troops, but he offered hints of an expanded counterinsurgency effort.
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Obama's Speech: Will the Plan Match the Stagecraft?
Time Magazine - 14 minutes agoThe President effectively made his case on Afghanistan to West Point cadets and the American public. But will it work?
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Obama Adds Troops, but Maps Exit Plan
New York Times - 20 minutes agoPresident Obama said he would begin to draw U.S. forces out of Afghanistan in July 2011, even after sending some 30,000 more by mid-2010.
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Suicide Bomber Kills Politician In Northwest Pakistan -Police
Nasdaq - Tue Dec 1, 5:02 am ETPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP)--A suicide bomber on Tuesday killed a member of Pakistan's northwest provincial assembly and his brother in an attack in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat valley, officials said.
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CNN Student News Transcript: December 2, 2009
CNN - 36 minutes agoDecember 2, 2009
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With narrower military goals, Obama ups the ante
Washington Post - 42 minutes agoSix months after saying he doubted that "piling on more and more troops" was the road to success in Afghanistan, and then warning his commanders not to ask for more, President Obama has given Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal nearly all the troops that he wanted.
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Dems balk at deployment plan
USA Today - 53 minutes agoPresident Obama's long-awaited decision on the course ahead in Afghanistan provoked a topsy-turvy world on Capitol Hill.
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Obama's speech: A sober call for a limited Afghan mission
Politico via Yahoo! News - 55 minutes agoPresident Barack Obama largely bypassed his usual appeals to American hopes and values Tuesday night in a speech in which he pleaded for resolution and patience for a final, pragmatic push to set Afghanistan on a less threatening path.
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Obama Takes Ownership of War
CBS News - 58 minutes agoPresident Lays Out Strategy for Afghanistan, Pakistan; 30,000 New Troops; Pullout Beginning in July 2011
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Transcript of Obama speech on Afghanistan
CNN - 58 minutes agoPresident Obama spoke Tuesday night at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, about the future of the U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan. The following is a transcript of his remarks:
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FACT CHECK: Obama overlooks some tough realities
AP via Yahoo! News - 59 minutes agoPresident Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night did not always match the reality on the ground in Afghanistan.
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Obama orders 30,000-troop boost in Afghanistan
AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 2 minutes agoDeclaring "our security is at stake," President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the long war in Afghanistan Tuesday night, nearly tripling the force he inherited as commander in chief. He promised an impatient public he would begin bringing units home in 18 months.
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Obama to send more troops, seek Afghanistan exit
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 5 minutes agoPresident Barack Obama said on Tuesday he is ordering 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan by next summer to counter a resurgent Taliban and plans to begin a troop withdrawal in 18 months.
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Reaction to Obama's Afghanistan war plans
AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 9 minutes agoSome reaction to President Barack Obama's plans for the Afghanistan war:
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Top US commander: build Afghan forces
AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 18 minutes agoThe top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that NATO and U.S. forces will hand over responsibility for securing the country to its own security forces "as rapidly as conditions allow" — welcome news for war-weary American troops trying to hold back insurgents.
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Obama seeks new partnership with Pakistan
AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 30, 8:01 am ETThe Washington Post reports that the White House is seeking to bring Pakistan into a new strategic partnership that would increase trade and military cooperation between the two nations.
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Pro-, anti-Taliban rub shoulders in Pakistan camp
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Pakistanis prepare for Eid
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Pakistan charges 7 in Mumbai attacks
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Tackling the Taliban
FOX News - Wed Nov 25, 3:02 pm ET
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Pakistan: Lest We Forget
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Pakistan: Reduce The Size Of The Cabinet
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Pakistan: Take Back The Tech Campaign
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Pakistan: A Letter To The Neighbors
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Why Would Anyone Think the Bush Administration Botched Afghanistan?
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