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As
rumors swirl about the status and ultimate fate of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari , some in the State
Department are making it clear that they don't see him as leaving office
anytime soon.
Since late last month, calls for
Zardari to step down have increased following the ...
World
Pakistan
As members of Congress digests
Obama's new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy and decide how they want to weigh in,
some key staffers behind the scenes will be important to watch:
Tom Hawkins - national security advisor to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , R-KY
Since ...
Congress
Afghanistan
Baron Hill
Barack Obama
It wasn't so long ago that the State Department was refusing
to come out in support of the Honduran elections (which were held last weekend).
After all, it wasn't clear that they would be free and fair and besides, the
official U.S. stance had been to push for the restoration of ousted ...
World
Honduras
In his landmark strategy speech Tuesday, President Obama
stressed the importance of Pakistan to the success of the fight against
terrorism and extremism in South Asia, but he didn't offer many details. One
reason could be that there are no new concrete deliverables or changes ...
World
Pakistan
Foreign Policy
Barack Obama
Afghanistan
India
International Monetary Fund
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handling of major foreign-policy issues so far? If so,...
there's a greater chance that you are a member of the Council on Foreign Relations than a member of the general public. A new survey being released ...
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When President Obama spoke to troops at Alaska's
Elmendorf Air Force Base last month, the unit there...
parked a shiny new F-22 fighter plane in the hanger. But according to multiple sources, White House aides demanded the plane be changed to an ...
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Exclusive: White House aides insisted F-22 be removed ...
President Obama is likely to get all the money he needs to
carry out his
"surge" of U.S. forces to Afghanistan, despite widespread skepticism among
the Democratic congressional leadership, the top House defense appropriator
said Wednesday.
John Murtha , D-PA, who ...
World
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
John Murtha
In which we scour the transcript of the State Department's
daily presser so you don't have to. Here are the highlights of Tuesday's press
briefing by Department Spokesman ( and
OSCE representative nominee ) Ian
Kelly:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will leave for
Brussels ...
World
Afghanistan
Russia
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Several lawmakers from both sides of the aisle told
President Obama directly Tuesday afternoon they are concerned about his July
2011 time frame for beginning the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan,
according to Sen. Kit Bond .
Bond briefed The Cable exclusively upon ...
White House
Barack Obama
Afghanistan
Laura Rozen , former Cable author, gets
some news on State Department appointments in the works:
Victoria Nuland , the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and wife of
neoconservative writer Robert Kagan , is in the final stages of vetting for a
senior State Department position, ...
White House
The White House has now confirmed that President Obama will
announce the addition deployment of 30,000 new U.S. troops to
Afghanistan, as well as a plan to start withdrawing troops in July of
2011.
Two administration officials briefed reporters on a conference
call Tuesday afternoon ...
World
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
Pakistan
Foreign Policy
International Monetary Fund
al-Qaeda
President
Obama will not announce a three year time frame for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, despite a CNN report to the contrary.
"That's
wrong. The time frame of 3 years is nowhere in the speech," White
House spokesman Tommy Vietor told The Cable .
He added ...
World
Afghanistan
CNN
Robert Gibbs
Joe Lieberman
Barack Obama
As the entire development
community was trying to gauge the impact of the ascension of Rajiv Shah to the top position at the
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the nominee himself gave the
most detailed look yet into his intellectual identity as he gets ready to step
into the ...
Congress
In
which we scour the transcript of the State Department's daily presser
so you don't have to. Here are the highlights of Monday's press
briefing by Department Spokesman ( and
OSCE representative nominee ) Ian
Kelly:
Secretary
of State Hillary
Clinton met
with Australian Prime ...
World
Afghanistan
Iran
North Korea
The State Department is cautiously endorsing the victory
of Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo in Sunday's
Honduran elections, while still acknowledging there is a long way to go before
Hondurans might find their way out of the coup-related political crisis there.
Lobo is widely
reported to ...
World
Honduras
Barack Obama
State
Department spokesman Ian Kelly has
been nominated by President Obama to be the U.S. representative to the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the White House
announced Monday.
Kelly is
well known as the daily briefer at the State Department, placed ...
World
Barack Obama
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As President Obama gets ready to roll out
his new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy, some leading Democrats are focusing...
on the cost of the pending troop escalation. But they are unlikely to apply actual legislative pressure on the White ...
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Obey's Afghanistan surtax bill dead on arrival
The Pakistani press is becoming increasingly
independent and free-wheeling, representing new opportunities for government
criticism. This newfound press freedom, however, has also resulted in numerous mishaps,
if not incidents of gross irresponsibility, in the Pakistani media, one example
of ...
World
Pakistan
As the White House briefs interested parties in anticipation
of Tuesday's Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy rollout, more and more details of
the new strategy and President Obama's announcement are leaking out.
One high-level diplomatic source familiar with the details
of new ...
World
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
As far as we know, the U.S.
government isn't focused on engaging the Taliban or other militants waging war
on the Afghan government and international forces, but there is one country
actively working on a plan to reconcile the warring factions in Afghanistan: Japan.
A conference held ...
