dawn.com - 1/14/2009
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Pakistan, Afghanistan will be Obama's priority: Hillary By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Jan 13: US Secretary of State-designate Hillary Rodham Clinton told her confirmation hearing on Tuesday that fighting terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan would be the highest priority of the ...
washingtonindependent.com - 1/12/2009
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Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a
new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S....
forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the ...
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downwithtyranny.blogspot.com - 1/12/2009
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Pretty, yes, but worth fighting a war over?
In yesterday's NY Times Magazine chief Washington correspondent David...
Sanger paints a horrifying picture of Obama's Worst Pakistan Nightmare ; it would be more accurate to emphasize that the nightmare ...
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Obama's Got One Thing Right About the Mess In ...
getafghanistanright.com - 1/12/2009
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The New York Times' Thom Shanker and Christopher
Drew revealed that an escalation in Afghanistan would be...
enormously expensive. "It is significantly more expensive to sustain each soldier in Afghanistan than in Iraq because of Afghanistan's landlocked ...
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Clinton's Pragmatism, Smart Power, Multilateralism Welcomed in Muslim World
Informed Comment —
... The Pakistani press was also obviously delighted to hear that Clinton appreciated the return to power of civilian politicians in Pakistan who would be less beholden than the military dictatorship to old policies of secretly supporting the Taliban. ...
World Reaction to Hillary
Taylor Marsh —
... welcomed the change, because
the bigger picture has nothing to do with Bill. That Clinton’s respect from the Senate
Foreign Relations committee infuriated wingnuts and the usual suspects like
David Shuster, who couldn’t wait to give Christopher Hitches another chance
to bloviate about the Clintons, was relegated to a sideshow, was fitting. Because the signal sent from
President-elect Obama through Clinton was received loud and clear around the world.
From Pakistan: ...
How Can Obama “Listen to the General” In Charge of Afghanistan If He Has Only Spoken to Him Once?
Flopping Aces —
... Remember that during the 2008 campaign and at the start of the Obama Administration the focus was on making Afghanistan the highest priority national security issue. ...
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