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Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....
Tags: Afghanistan, Nawaz Sharif, National Government, Government, Terrorism
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Pakistan election vote count shows big win for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
Associated PressISLAMABAD (AP) — The vote count from last weekend's nationwide elections in Pakistan on Tuesday indicates a big win for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party. Figures released by the country's election commission, based on 254 of the 269 races...Tags: Human Rights, Pervez Musharraf, Government, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Syrian intervention: Some questions
WASHINGTON -- For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions: Is human suffering the reason for the United States to act? That is the noblest and most altruistic of motives, and the estimated 70,...
Tags: Weaponry, Afghanistan, Bashar Assad, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Fouad Ajami: Afghanistan shows Americans how not to fight wars
In the unforgiving Afghan landscape, we have learned that you can't buy a warlord. You can only rent one. We owe this education to our man in Kabul, President Hamid Karzai. For more than a decade, it has been recently confirmed, U.S. dollars packed into...Tags: Afghanistan, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Wars and Interventions, Politics, Barack Obama
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Getting less for our money in Afghanistan
Among all the bizarre actions which have constituted U.S. foreign policy, one stands out today as particularly bizarre and counterproductive. Over the past 10 years, the CIA has given Afghan President Hamid Karzai bags full of money totaling millions of...Tags: Afghanistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Central Intelligence Agency, The New York Times, Hamid Karzai
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Global Voices: Author reflects on thwarted Afghanistan invasions
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” Nowhere has that admonishment by 18th century statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke been ignored with such disastrous consequences as in Afghanistan. The imperial British...
Tags: Afghanistan, Separation of Church and State, National Government, Government, Barack Obama
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New Bush Library, same old Bush record
It was inspiring to see them side by side at Southern Methodist University in Dallas: Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. For their service to this country, we are indebted to each one of them. It'...
Tags: George Washington, George H.W. Bush, Southern Methodist University, Economy, Business and Finance, Government
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U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghan provinces is unfinished work
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the U.S.-funded schoolhouse in this mountain-fringed northern town, Ghulam Nabi crouched in the mud and scooped up two rocks. He needed them, the school engineer explained, to scare off the building's...
Tags: Afghanistan, U.S. Department of Defense, National Government, Government, U.S. Department of State
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Can Hagel reshape the Pentagon?
Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska who survived a stormy confirmation hearing to become the new secretary of defense, had a coming-out party of sorts last week before the National Defense University, the government's graduate...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Afghanistan, Chuck Hagel, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Congress
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After loss, Afghan shadow warrior still wishes to fight Taliban
KAMA, Afghanistan — For more than two years, he was part of a secret, CIA-trained advance team for America's shadow war in Afghanistan, helping to collect intelligence that led to the killing or capture of Taliban suspects. Then, last September,...
Tags: Afghanistan, National Government, Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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U.S. should speed Afghan pullout
From media accounts, the war in Afghanistan has hit a disturbing snag which was precipitated by President Hamid Karzai's recent remarks following the U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's visit, when he accused the Taliban terrorists and America of being...Tags: Armed Forces, Afghanistan, Taliban, Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai
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