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The Note: The Note's Must-Reads for Monday, November 2, 2009
Pirate's Cove: Karzai Declared Winner In Afghanistan: What Does Obama Do Now?
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"This is not where we wanted to be" US officials determine what's next in Afghanistan. Great analysis in nytimes http://tinyurl.com/yg4hant 18 days ago |
Newspaper Roundup for Monday, November 2, 2009
CNSNews.com Headlines —
Home News National CNSNews.com Newspaper Roundup for Monday, November 2, 2009 Monday, November 02, 2009 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor Denver Post: Denver school choice a hit with students Open enrollment laws allow students to attend any school they like Fox News: Limbaugh Assails Obama's 'Radical' Agenda, Predicts One-Term Presidency New York Times: Europe Still Likes Obama, but Doubts Creep In Boston Globe: Boston public schools running program called 'Parent University' Helping parents feel empowered and in control of their lives Los Angeles Times: Defenders of limited federal power foresee ...
The Note's Must-Reads for Monday, November 2, 2009
The Note —
... U.S. Foreign Policy” LINK
Politico’s Laura Rozen: “HRC’s Middle East misfire” LINK
AFGHANISTAN:
ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos: “Afghanistan: Abdullah Withdrawal Won’t Complicate Obama’s Strategy – His Decisions Could Slip” LINK
The New York Times’ Carlotta Gall and Jeff Zeleny: “Out of Race, Karzai Rival Is Harsh Critic of Election” LINK
The New York Times’ David Sanger: “With Karzai, U.S. Faces Weak Partner in Time of War” LINK
The Washington Post’s Pamela Constable: “Status of Afghan runoff unclear as Karzai’s ...
Strange Brew: GOP war clouds comeback picture
The Note —
... Friends like these: "President Obama now faces a new complication: enabling a badly tarnished partner to regain enough legitimacy to help the United States find the way out of an eight-year-old war," David E. Sanger writes for The New York Times. ...
Karzai Declared Winner In Afghanistan: What Does Obama Do Now?
Pirate's Cove —
Regardless of any issues with the Afghanistan election, Karzai is the winner
Afghan election officials canceled a presidential runoff and proclaimed the reelection of President Hamid Karzai on Monday, a day after Karzai’s top challenger declared he would not take part in a second round of voting scheduled for Saturday because of a persistent risk of fraud.
(Election commission chairman Azizullah) Lodin said that after consulting legal experts, the seven-member commission had decided by consensus to cancel the runoff and declare Karzai the winner of a second five-year term.
Peppered with questions about how the commission ...
Return of the Friedman Unit.
INSTAPUTZ —
Afghanistan edition: “We’re going to know in the next three to six months whether he’s [Hamid Karzai] doinganything differently — whether he can seriously address the corruption,whether he can raise an army that ultimately can take over from us andthat doesn’t lose troops as fast as we train them,” one of Mr. Obama’ssenior aides said. ...
Karzai Declared Winner In Afghanistan: What Does Obama Do Now?
Stop The ACLU —
Karzai Declared Winner In Afghanistan: What Does Obama Do Now? Posted on November 2, 2009 Regardless of any issues with the Afghanistan election, Karzai is the winner Afghan election officials canceled a presidential runoff and proclaimed the reelection of President Hamid Karzai on Monday, a day after Karzai’s top challenger declared he would not take part in a second round of voting scheduled for Saturday because of a persistent risk of fraud. (Election commission chairman Azizullah) Lodin said that after consulting legal experts, the seven-member commission had decided by consensus to cancel the runoff and declare Karzai the winner of a second five-year ...
Our Knowledge Problem in Afghanistan Won’t Be Solved in One Friedman Unit
Matthew Yglesias —
... Do we need to increase our efforts in Afghanistan or do we lack the sort of partner who can make counterinsurgency work? Maybe stringing things out for another Friedman Unit will resolve the matter: ...
Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch - The Hyman Roth Version
democracyarsenal.org —
Hamid Karzai is a gangster. What else can you say about the guy? He goes and basically tries to steal the first round of the Afghanistan presidential election - the UN, NATO and the US freaks out and demands he stand for a runoff with Abdullah Abdullah (precisely how far do you think John Kerry had to twist that arm to get Karzai to agree to this) so that he will seem like a legitimate and credible leader. Karzai agrees, but makes perfectly clear that he is simply going to steal the runoff (the announcement last week by the election commission that they would open more polling locations, which the UN had adamantly asked him not to do ...
Leveraging Karzai And Outflanking Obama
Newshoggers.com —
By Steve Hynd
Mother Jones' David Corn, live-tweeting the White House presser as always, has just reported that Gibbs has refused to be drawn on specific anti-corruption measures the U.S. will demand of Hamid Karzai, saying only that the U.S. Embassy in Kabul was working on the matter.
The trouble with the Embassy working on it is that ...
Plan B
Mudville Gazette —
Al Jazeera: Hamid Karzai listened to a mixture of congratulations and straight talking down the telephone from President Obama on Monday just hours after Mr. Karzai was declared the winner of the Afghan elections by default. President Obama made clear what the United States expects.
"I emphasized that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter based on improved governance, a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption, joint efforts to accelerate the training of Afghan security forces so that the Afghan people can provide for their ...
