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On Afghanistan War Anniversary Trying to Find Right Strategy
abcnews.go.com - 10/7/2009
On Afghanistan War Anniversary Trying to Find Right Strategy
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On the eighth anniversary of the Afghan war , the once-defeated Taliban are surging across the battered country while the Obama administration is hunkered down in Washington debating what strategy to deploy. The Washington debate centers around Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for as many as ...
Americans Divided on Sending More Troops to Afghanistan
gallup.com - 10/8/2009
Americans Divided on Sending More Troops to Afghanistan
— gallup.com — PRINCETON, NJ -- As the debate intensifies over the next steps for the United States in the... war in Afghanistan, a new USA Today /Gallup poll finds Americans about evenly divided over whether the U.S. should increase its troop presence there. ... (more) Americans Divided on Sending More Troops to Afghanistan

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google.com - 10/7/2009
The Associated Press: 8 years in, Obama weighs Afghanistan options
— google.com — 21 hours ago WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is gathering his national security team for another strategy session... on Afghanistan after signaling that a troop withdrawal is not under consideration. Obama's White House session Wednesday comes eight ... (more) The Associated Press: 8 years in, Obama weighs ...

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news.yahoo.com - 10/8/2009
AP source: Obama focusing on al
— news.yahoo.com — WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afghanistan 's political future and... appears inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops as needed to keep al-Qaida at bay, a senior administration official said ... (more) AP source: Obama focusing on al

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Flopping Aces:  The People are the Prize

The Note:  The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, October 8, 2009

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The People are the Prize
Flopping Aces — ... Oct. 5 Protesters hold signs in front of the White House to mark the upcoming eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. Protesters did not hesitate to voice their disapproval with President Obama’s policies, including Predator drone strikes that have killed many Afghan civilians in addition to insurgent forces. Sarah L. Voisin-The Washington Post The 8th anniversary of the startup to the war in Afghanistan is marked today by continued deliberations over a new strategy and the way forward from where we find ourselves ...

The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, October 8, 2009
The Note — ... Tehran to Free Two Detainees” LINK The Wall Street Journal’s Stephanie Simon: “New Mexico Revisits Scandal” LINK The Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung and Scott Wilson: “Pakistanis Balk at U.S. Aid Package” LINK GITMO: Politico’s David Rogers: “Dems struggle for Gitmo deal” LINK AFGHANISTAN: ABC News’ Chris Cuomo, Chris Strathmann and Sarah Netter: “Afghan War Anniversary Marked by Debate Over More Troops” LINK ABC News’ Karen Travers and Martha Raddatz: “President Obama Meets With National Security ...

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Blog Archive » On Afghanistan and Strategy
zenpundit.com 8/21/2009 — Most of you have followed the series on the Afghanistan strategy debate at Abu Muqawama that was prompted by the Andrew Bacevich article or read the exchange I had with Dr. Bernard Finel or at the many other defense blogs talking Afghanistan. So many ...
'Not Every Taliban Is al Qaeda': Clinton on Strategy in Afghanistan
abcnews.go.com 10/14/2009 — Hillary Clinton talks Afghanistan strategy, hesitation on being Sec. of State.
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 ...
More Americans Want to Win War in Afghanistan... Except Democrats
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 10/14/2009 — There's a surge going on... Just not in Afghanistan. Support for the War in Afghanistan surged this past month. Investor's Business Daily reported: As President Obama mulls the military's request for a big troop build-up in Afghanistan, Americans ...
Obama at War With His General
realclearpolitics.com 9/27/2009 — Ruben Navarrette, San Diego U-T
Obama Decides To Make The Taliban Our Friend In Afghanistan
sayanythingblog.com 10/8/2009 — And that’s the perfect solution to all the pressure he’s now facing to, you know, make an effort to win the war in Afghanistan.  Remember, Obama said throughout his campaign that Afghanistan was the right war while Iraq was the wrong ...
A Brief Timeline of President Obama’s Benchmark Statements on the “War of Necessity”
floppingaces.net 9/29/2009 — U.S. Marines from Charlie 1/1 of the 15th MEU (Marine Expeditionary Unit) fill sand bags around their light mortar position at a Marine Corps base in southern Afghanistan, December 1, 2001. REUTERS/Jim Hollander Words have consequences. This is by no ...
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 ...
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 ...
High Stakes: Obama To Take Time to Decide Afghanistan Strategy
abcnews.go.com 10/1/2009 — Obama holds situation room meeting to decide the way forward.
Pakistan FM tells Washington group US aid crucial (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 10/7/2009
AP - Pakistan's foreign minister says a proposed multibillion-dollar U.S. aid package is crucial to Islamabad's efforts to fight terrorists even as his country's military questioned that aid as potentially meddlesome.
Obama mulls Afghanistan decision on 8-year mark — CNN Political Ticker 10/7/2009
President Obama is weighing whether to send an additional 40,000 troops to Afghanistan. WASHINGTON (CNN) — A day after meeting with congressional leaders from both parties, President Obama sat down Wednesday afternoon with ...
Obama Meeting Advisers Amid Debate on Afghan Policy — NYT > Politics 10/7/2009
President Obama will confer with his national security team Wednesday on Afghanistan and Pakistan as he decides how to respond to a proposal for a major troop buildup.
U.S. raising Central Asia supply role in Afghanistan — Reuters: Politics 10/7/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is drafting a plan for Central Asian nations to supply more goods and services to operations in Afghanistan as a way of aiding their economies, a U.S. trade official said on Wednesday.
Canada seeks WTO panel in U.S. meat labeling dispute (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 10/7/2009
Reuters - Canada is asking the World Trade Organization to resolve a dispute with Washington over a country-of-origin labeling law that Ottawa says has slashed livestock exports to the United States.