usatoday.com - 3/27/2009
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Obama said his objective is to suppress the spreading insurgency by placing more emphasis on building local governments, wooing the civilian population with aid and providing more help to the Afghan army instead of a deploying a large number of combat troops. "The situation is increasingly ...
michaelyon-online.com - 3/27/2009
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michaelyon-online.com —
27 March 2009 President Obama has just spoken
on AfPak. I closed my eyes and listened closely...
to his words, coming via the BBC from the other side of the world. The President's words were disappointing. He talked about our goal to reach a force ...
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Obama on Afghanistan: Disappointing
nytimes.com - 3/27/2009
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nytimes.com —
Washington, DC March 27, 2009 Good morning. Today,
I am announcing a comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan...
and Pakistan. This marks the conclusion of a careful policy review that I ordered as soon as I took office. My Administration has heard ...
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Text - President Obama’s Remarks on New Strategy ...
commentarymagazine.com - 3/27/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
The new Afghanistan policy that President Obama unveiled
at the White House today was pretty much all...
that supporters of the war effort could have asked for, and probably pretty similar to what a President McCain would have decided on. The major ...
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A New Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
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Mudville Gazette —
... (Funding! ""President Obama's new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy will require significantly higher levels of U.S. funding for both countries... "The president has decided he is going to resource this war properly," said a senior administration official of the plan Obama is set to announce this morning.") USA Today (McCain quotes! "Adding the extra trainers is "an excellent idea," said Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Obama's Republican opponent for the presidency last year. "The Afghan army has to be dramatically increased."") the ...
Obama unveils Afghan plan
Political Animal —
... the odds of the multi-modal influx of military forces, civilian development and governance experts, and money working are pretty good. But any honest person is going to have to concede that this is uncertain ground and that our fortunes depend in part on the actions of people we can't control. It's important to have some policy off-ramps, some points at which we might conclude that we can't achieve our biggest goals and need to radically scale back. Ultimately, the administration believes violence can be curtailed and the insurgency can be defeated by "building local ...
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The AP : "Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers to Afghanistan by the fall on top of the 17,000 combat troops he has already ordered, senior administration officials said Thursday. Obama's war strategy, which he ...
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