huffingtonpost.com - 10/30/2009
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"NBC Nightly News" anchor and managing editor Brian Williams conducted an e-mail Q&A; with the Huffington Post from Afghanistan, where he has been reporting from since Wednesday. Williams wrote his responses to the Huffington Post's questions Friday in Kabul.
Huffington Post: How are things ...
taylormarsh.com - 10/30/2009
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taylormarsh.com —
This post has been edited and updated with
reporting from the event. The event today, “Afghanistan: Basic...
Questions – Strategic Choices,” was organized by the Rand Corp., with Steve Clemons of NAF. As backdrop, ...
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Afghanistan in the Caucus Room: Levin Slams Cheney
mudvillegazette.com - 10/31/2009
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( Part one here ) ***** As the
scheduled November 7 second round election date draws near,...
last minute efforts to replace the Karzai government in Afghanistan are moving into high gear. From London : Dr Abdullah Abdullah is meeting his main allies in Kabul today and tomorrow to ...
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Round two (part two)
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Newshoggers.com —
... HuffPo's interview with NBC broadcaster Brian Williams in Kabul illustrates how the "force protection" paradigm wins out over well-meaning manuals and papers about "population-centric" COIN better than I ever could. ...
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Brian Williams Grants Interview to Huffington Post, Suggests Afghans Cool to American Presence
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... For some mysterious reason, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams augmented his tour of Afghanistan with an interview with The Huffington Post, where most bloggers think of the American presence as comparable to cancer, or maggots. One spot in his interview with Danny Shea suggested that the Americans weren't so welcome in Afghanistan: ...
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Colors
michaelyon-online.com 10/28/2009 — A military watchdog gets it wrong on the debate over camouflage. By Michael Yon Some things are not as they seem. Many people, for instance, seem to think Stars & Stripes is a military lapdog, but this is untrue. If Washington had a yearbook, ...
How to adjust in Afghanistan
ricks.foreignpolicy.com 10/28/2009 — A veteran infantryman with much time in the Middle East, and other wars, writes in with the following suggestions.
Life is getting rough. He begins
with how to target Karzai's relatives:
Putting and adequate number of troops ...
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article.nationalreview.com 10/28/2009 — S ome things are not as they seem. Many people, for instance, seem to think Stars & Stripes is a military lapdog, but this is untrue. If Washington had a yearbook, Stars & Stripes might be voted “most apt to slam the military.” Stars & Stripes is ...
The Surge
mudvillegazette.com 10/13/2009 — This Washington Post story has caught the attention of political bloggers - I can never tell what newspaper stories will. The only "new" part of this one is someone has decided to figure out how many "support troops" or "enablers" have been sent to Afghanistan this year. Since it does note ...
Why a surge is not a sure thing in Afghanistan
msnbc.msn.com 10/11/2009 — KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. policy in Afghanistan is clearly at a crossroads. The war is getting more deadly. The Taliban are moving into new areas outside their traditional strongholds in eastern and southern Afghanistan. Militant groups are trying to ...
Victory through chairpower
mudvillegazette.com 10/5/2009 — To me it seems like not much of a story - but it's clearly the story that will not die: Deep down, national-security conservatives know President Obama will not wage a decisive war against America's enemies in Afghanistan. They also know that the young men and women we already have there are ...
McCain: Afghanistan Not as Tough as Iraq
cbsnews.com 10/1/2009 — Sen. John McCain continued his lobby for a troop surge in Afghanistan as President Obama reconsiders his overall strategy for the region . "It's not as tough as when the surge started in Iraq," McCain said today during an interview with NBC's David ...
Dawn Patrol 08/21/2009
mudvillegazette.com 8/21/2009 — Welcome to the Dawn Patrol, our daily roundup of information on the War on Terror and other topics - from the MilBlogs and various sources around the world. If you're a blogger, you can join the conversation. If you link to any of these stories, add a link to the Dawn Patrol too and your ...
Afghanistan: Plenty of Advice, from “How to Win” to “How to Lose”
themoderatevoice.com 10/3/2009 —
While doing some research on the Afghanistan war for another publication, I soon discovered that there is no shortage of opinions—many of them “expert” opinions—on how to conduct and conclude that war.
It made me realize how excruciatingly difficult it must be for the ...
President looking for new troop options —
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From NBC's Chuck Todd and Jim MiklaszewskiPres. Obama met today with the Joint Chiefs of Staff for just the second time since taking office. The president grilled the commanders on strategy and troop requests for Afghanistan during the nearly three ...
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