jihadwatch.org - 3/31/2009
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The policy announced for Afghanistan and Pakistan depresses. It's all about training the locals. It's all about helping them. It's all about giving them aid, and still more aid, from the depleted, practically cupboard-is-bare coffers of the Americans, and other Infidel taxpayers. Far from ...
whitehouse.gov - 3/28/2009
prwatch.org - 3/30/2009
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prwatch.org —
John Podesta 's liberal think tank the Center
for American Progress strongly supports Barack Obama 's escalation...
of the US wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan . This is best evidenced by Sustainable Security in Afghanistan , a CAP report by Lawrence ...
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How Obama Took Over the Peace Movement
tnr.com - 3/31/2009
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tnr.com —
When the Obama administration announced the results of
its review of Afghanistan and Pakistan policies on Friday,...
reporters quizzing the review's authors seemed confused. They wondered whether the recommendations announced by the president amounted to ...
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This is not, to my view, persecution.
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