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    Mar 20, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Afghanistan: what 'victory' looks like

    Where is Afghanistan policy headed at this crucial moment? As the nation's excellent if unsung war commander, Gen. John Allen, testifies on Capitol Hill this week, and as Republican presidential aspirants continue to attack President Barack Obama from both the left and the right on the subject, these questions are especially timely. Will the president soon be tempted to say that with Osama bin Laden dead (on the positive side), but with the Afghan and Pakistani governments still very hard to work with and the insurgency still resilient (on the negative side), it's simply time to declare victory, cut our losses and get the forces home fast?
    Where is Afghanistan policy headed at this crucial moment? As the nation's excellent if unsung war commander, Gen. John Allen, testifies on Capitol Hill this week, and as Republican presidential aspirants continue to attack President Barack Obama from...

    Tags: International Organizations, Taliban, Afghanistan, West Point, White House

    2. Jun 4, 2011 |Story| Herald Mail

  2. In Kabul, Gates urges patience with Afghan war

    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates appealed for patience with an unpopular war and said Saturday that only modest U.S. troop reductions would make sense this summer in a still unstable Afghanistan.
    AP National Security Writer
    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates appealed for patience with an unpopular war and said Saturday that only modest U.S. troop reductions would make sense this summer in a still unstable Afghanistan. On his 12th and final visit to Afghanistan as...

    Tags: Terrorism, Afghanistan, Mohammed Omar, Wars and Interventions, Singapore

    3. Apr 6, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  3. Tim Rutten: Florida pastor Terry Jones and the far reach of free speech

    In this digital age, speech has been globalized just as surely as commerce. That's one of the lessons to be taken from the troubling sequence of events in which a tiny Florida church's distasteful publicity stunt of burning a Koran triggered five days of...

    Tags: Religious Texts, Afghanistan, U.S. Supreme Court, World War II (1939-1945), Islam

    4. Dec 14, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Richard Holbrooke dies at 69; diplomat

    Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration's emissary to Afghanistan and Pakistan and one of the most celebrated American diplomats of the last half-century, died Monday, the State Department said. He was 69.
    Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration's emissary to Afghanistan and Pakistan and one of the most celebrated American diplomats of the last half-century, died Monday, the State Department said. He was 69. Holbrooke, who in 1995 brokered the...

    Tags: Afghanistan, Colleges and Universities, Joe Biden, Wars and Interventions, Journalism

    5. Dec 3, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Obama's predictable surprise troop visit to Afghanistan: What's behind it and what he said

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    $4.7 million: What's inside and behind Obama's unannounced brief trip to the Afghanistan war zone....
    6. Jul 15, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Top general sees progress in Afghanistan where 10,000 Marines from Camp Pendleton are deployed

    L.A. NOW
    Marine Maj. Gen. Richard Mills expressed cautious optimism Thursday that U.S forces are winning the battle against the Taliban in Afghanistan's Helmand province, where 10,000 Marines from Camp Pendleton are deployed. In a teleconference with reporters...
    7. Jun 29, 2010 |Blog| Chicago Tribune

  7. Petraeus to call for 'responsible' drawdown

    The Swamp
    by David Cloud The July 2011 deadline for beginning U.S troops withdrawals from Afghanistan "is the beginning of a process, not the date when the U.S. heads for the exits," Gen. David H. Petraeus said in remarks to be delivered......

    Tags: Stanley A. McChrystal, Shirley K Richard, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Kabul (Afghanistan)

    8. Jun 23, 2010 |Story| WPIX-LTV

  8. War General To Explain Published Complaints About President, Aides

    With the ramped-up war in Afghanistan at a precarious moment, President Barack Obama prepared to hear his top war commander explain biting published complaints about the commander in chief and his aides.
    Staff reporter
    With the ramped-up war in Afghanistan at a precarious moment, President Barack Obama prepared to hear his top war commander explain biting published complaints about the commander in chief and his aides. Even before their showdown, the White House's...

    Tags: David R. Obey, White House, Afghanistan, Kabul (Afghanistan), Armed Forces

    9. Jun 22, 2010 |Blog| Chicago Tribune

  9. McChrystal summoned to White House

    The Swamp
    by Julian Barnes and Peter Nicholas President Obama summoned his top commander in Afghanistan, Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, to the White House to explain a series of comments in a magazine article in which the general and his advisors......

    Tags: White House, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, Armed Forces

    10. Jun 22, 2010 |Story| WPIX-LTV

  10. Obama: War General Used 'Poor Judgment'

    Even Rolling Stone's editor agreed with Gen. Stanley McChrystal that the Afghan war's U.S. commander showed poor judgment in airing complaints about the Obama administration in the magazine.
    Associated Press
    Even Rolling Stone's editor agreed with Gen. Stanley McChrystal that the Afghan war's U.S. commander showed poor judgment in airing complaints about the Obama administration in the magazine. But Eric Bates said it was in keeping with McChrystal's...

    Tags: White House, Afghanistan, John Kirby, Kabul (Afghanistan), Politics

    11. Jun 22, 2010 |Blog| Chicago Tribune

  11. "Runaway" McChrystal at odds with WH

    The Swamp
    by Julian Barnes In a new magazine profile, the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, and his advisers appear to ridicule Vice President Joe Biden and are portrayed as dismissive of civilian oversight of the war. The article,......

    Tags: Stanley A. McChrystal, Afghanistan, White House, Missing Persons, Julian Barnes

    12. Mar 28, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  12. What Obama told U.S. troops in Afghanistan

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    Text and video of Democrat's 20-minute remarks to soldiers at Bagram Airfield....
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