telegraph.co.uk - 11/27/2008
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Barack Obama is preparing a huge US deployment "surge" similar to that which contributed to security improvements in Iraq.
msnbc.msn.com - 11/25/2008
washingtonpost.com - 11/25/2008
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Estimate Is 20,000-Plus In the Next 18 Months
By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday,...
November 22, 2008; A03 Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday that he supports a fresh troop buildup in Afghanistan -- officially ...
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Gates Backs Buildup of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
longwarjournal.org - 11/22/2008
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Detainees at Guantánamo Bay in 2002. DPA photo.
On Sunday, November 16, CBS News ' 60 Minutes...
broadcast the first interview with President-elect Barack Obama. The exchange touched on a wide range of topics, from Obama's distaste ...
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Theo Spark —
... Barack Obama plans 20,000 troop surge to boost Afghan effort. Bulls**t. General Petreaus and Dubya have been planning a surge in Afghanistan and have been for some time. Obama is already gettting a Napoleon Complex. ...
Barack Obama plans 20,000 troop surge to boost Afghan effort
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... which would not only put thousands more boots on the ground but involve negotiations with malleable branches of the Taliban. It would also aim to boost co-operation with Iran and Pakistan where some elements have supported the anti-Western insurgency. The need for more US troops in addition to the 32,000 already serving, has been accelerated by the Afghan presidential election in September 2009, and the voter registration process that begins in the New Year, Mr Gates said. Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/... Change?
Eugene Jarecki: Keeping Track of Change(It Takes More Than Hope)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... ⢠Surging in Afghanistan. While the matter of the worsening situation in Afghanistan is a sensitive one, Obama's late campaign call for a surge in the war-torn country was a departure from the antiwar platform on which he first appealed to the American people. It seemed instead to suggest a shifting of certain troops from Iraq, where Obama had opposed such a surge, to Afghanistan, rather than simply bringing those troops home. Another model for implementing a peacekeeping presence in Afghanistan might have been more compatible with the spirit of Obama's original commitments ...
Keeping Track of Change (It Takes More Than Hope)
TPMCafe —
... Surging in Afghanistan. While the matter of the worsening situation in Afghanistan is a sensitive one, Obama's late campaign call for a surge in the war-torn country was a departure from the antiwar platform on which he first appealed to the American people. It seemed instead to suggest a shifting of certain troops from Iraq, where Obama had opposed such a surge, to Afghanistan, rather than simply bringing those troops home. Another model for implementing a peacekeeping presence in Afghanistan might have been more compatible with the spirit of Obama's original ...
The Obama “change”: Public perception and a higher tolerance of secrecy
Flopping Aces —
... Some of this newly demonstrated “tolerance” by the public is long overdue, and welcome. As Obama slowly, and somewhat shrouded in media stealth, moves foreign policy closer to a Bush III term, the outcry from the public is more subdued. Certainly if it were Bush, and not Obama as the orchestrator of the planned 20K troop surge in Afghanistan, the media and Congress would be a’buzz with the negatives. ...
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Cuba's Raul Castro open to meet Obama: report —
Reuters: Politics 11/26/2008
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro is open to meeting U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on neutral ground to try to resolve the island's four-decade-old feud with Washington, according to an interview with a U.S. magazine.
US condemns India attacks
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Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/27/2008
AP - The Bush administration strongly condemned a series of coordinated terrorist attacks Wednesday in the Indian city of Mumbai in which Westerners reportedly were targeted but said it was not aware of any American casualties and that U.S. ...
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