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Nato's head says it could be difficult to
persuade European countries to contribute more troops to Afghanistan...
because of controversial new laws. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said the planned laws violated human rights and were unjustifiable when Nato troops ...
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | New Afghan law worries Nato chief
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Tomgram: The A.I.G. of American Foreign Policy
TomDispatch —
... It's time, as a start, to stop calling our expanding war in Central and South Asia "the Afghan War" or "the Afghanistan War." If Obama's special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke doesn't want to, why should we? Recently, in a BBC interview, he insisted that "the 'number one problem' in stabilizing Afghanistan was Taliban sanctuaries in western Pakistan, including tribal areas along the Afghan border and cities like Quetta" in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. ...
The Afghan Bailout
The Nation: Top Stories —
... Let's start by stopping. It's time, as a start, to stop calling our expanding war in Central and South Asia "the Afghan War" or "the Afghanistan War." If Obama's special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke doesn't want to, why should we? Recently, in a BBC interview , he insisted that "the 'number one problem' in stabilizing Afghanistan was Taliban sanctuaries in western Pakistan, including tribal areas along the Afghan border and cities like Quetta" in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. And isn't he right? After all, the US seems to be in the ...
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