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Why George W. Bush Made Me Sick Yesterday

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.26.2008 | Media

Read More: George Bush, Matthew Arnold, Patriotic Gore, President Obama, George W. Bush, 9/11, Dover Beach, Democracy, Taliban, Media, Barack Obama, Osama, Fort Campbell, Politics, Totalitarian, Bin Laden, New York Times, Afghanistan, Iraq, Media News
Stephen C. Rose

For George Bush, democracy is bulling through a Florida decision which makes his government only borderline legitimate from the gitgo. It is forcing "change" with soldiers rather than friendly persuasion. It is pandering.

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Marines Plan Afghanistan Troop Redeployment

Los Angeles Times | Tony Perry | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Marines, Robert Gates, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, War Wire, Afghan War, US Marines, Taliban, Taliban Afghanistan, US Marines Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban, Afghanistan War, Taliban Militants, Politics News

Reporting from Marine Headquarters At Al Asad, Iraq -- Marine Corps leaders are devising a plan to send thousands of additional combat troops to Afgha...

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Afghanistan: Taliban Reject Offer For Peace Talks With President

AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 11.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Taliban, Afghan Taliban, Kabul, Hamid Karzai, Karzai Afghanistan, Karzai, Al Qaeda, War Wire, Home News

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban militants rejected an offer of peace talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, saying Monday there would be no n...

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Afghan President Offers Taliban Leader Safety Deal

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 11.16.2008 | Home

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai offered Sunday to provide security for the Taliban's reclusive leader if he agrees to enter peace talks, and suggested t...

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The War in Afghanistan Is A No-Win Situation

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Islamic Militants, Stephen C. Rose, Police Action, Great Game, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Lbj, Taliban, Security, No-Win, Huffington Post, Barack Obama, War on Terror, Politics News
Stephen C. Rose

The situation in Afghanistan weighs more and more heavily on us. I took it up in a Huffington Post piece a while back titled Could Barack Obama Suffer...

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Ahmadinejad: Guns N' Roses

Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad Letter to Obama, George W Bush, Iran, Taliban, Sejil Missile, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Nouri Al Maliki, President Elect Obama, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

Obama had said that he was prepared to hold tough presidential negotiations without preconditions with Iran; it seems that he may just have to do so earlier than he might have expected.

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A Question For Those Who Care

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Moral Values, Human Rights, America, Terrorism, Radical Islam, Muslim Extremism, Taliban, Israel, Somalia Stoning, Somalia, Somalia Rape Victim, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

Just as our silence discourages moderate Muslims, our furor encourages them to speak up. We may well find some allies among those of the thousand or so spectators to the stoning in Somalia who have already protested.

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Two Afghan Schoolgirls Blinded After Being Sprayed With Acid

CNN | Posted 11.12.2008 | Home

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Two men on a motorcycle used water pistols to spray acid on girls walking to school Wednesday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, blinding at lea...

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Gunmen Kill American Aid Worker In Pakistan

washingtonpost.com | Candace Rondeaux and Haq Nawaz Khan | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pakistan Fighting, War Wire, Pakistan Terrorism, Us Aid Worker Killed, Taliban, Politics News

An American aid worker and his driver were shot dead Wednesday in a neighborhood favored by diplomats in the city of Peshawar, the latest sign of dete...

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Afghan Insurgency Stronger Than Ever, Taliban Training Extremely Young Soldiers (VIDEO)

CBS News | Posted 11.11.2008 | Home

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The war President-elect Barack Obama is inheriting in Afghanistan includes an insurgency that's stronger than ever. And it's creeping ever-closer to ...

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On Killing the Right People

Andrew Bacevich | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: President-Elect Barack Obama, Al-Qaeda, Bush Administration, Warwire, Afghanistan, War Wire, Pakistan, George W. Bush, Taliban, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Andrew Bacevich

Whether attributable to incompetence or negligence or simply the fog and friction of war, the evidence that we are routinely killing the wrong people in Afghanistan is becoming difficult to refute.

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How to Fix the Economic Meltdown and Stop Terrorism: Legalize Heroin and Whores

David Henry Sterry | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Master of Ceremonies, Law Enforcement, Serial Killer, Marijuana, Economy, Sex Trafficking, South America, Drugs, Asia, War on Drugs, Prohibition, Economic Recovery, Prostitution, Chicken, Ecstasy, Cigarettes, Alcohol, Sex Worker, Abraham Lincoln, Empowerment of Women, Willie Nelson, Sexual Predators, Al Capone, Drug Trafficking, Terrorism, Pimp My Ride, Bloomingdale's, Pimp My Crib, Victimization, Free Enterprise, Gangsters, Exploitation, Pimp, Economic Meltdown, Taliban, Afghanistan, Harry Potter, Afghan Taliban, Whores, Politics News
David Henry Sterry

The bottom line, economically, is that there is a big beautiful sexy cash cow to be milked here.

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Afghanistan: US Missile Strike Kills 37 Civilians

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: War Wire, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, War in Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban, Afghan War, Us Missile Strike, US Missile, Us Missiles, Taliban, Taliban Afghanistan, Politics News

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban fighters held a wedding party captive and fired on U.S. forces in an attack designed to draw U.S. airstrikes on civ...

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Army Social Scientist In Afghanistan Lit On Fire, Taliban Takes Credit

Wired | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Terrain, Afghanistan, War Wire, Paula Lloyd, Taliban, Foreign Affairs, US Army, Politics News

A social scientist in the Army's controversial "Human Terrain" program is being raced to Brooke Army Medical Center after being lit on fire in Afghani...

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Taliban Storms Afghan Ministry, Kills Five

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban fighters stormed the Ministry of Culture in the heart of Kabul Thursday, killing five people in an attack the presi...

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Pakistan To US: Stop Missile Strikes Near Border

AP | STEPHEN GRAHAM | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's government summoned the U.S. ambassador on Wednesday to urge an immediate halt to missile strikes on suspected ...

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Afghanistan, Pakistan Agree To Taliban Talks In Bid To End Violence

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani and Afghan leaders vowed Tuesday to seek dialogue with Taliban insurgents, saying the "door is now open" for rec...

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US training Pakistani forces to fight Taliban

AP | STEPHEN GRAHAM | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — U.S. special forces have begun teaching a Pakistani paramilitary unit how to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida, hoping to str...

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Pakistan's Taliban Clashes Have The Country Using Tribal Militias

NY Times | JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Two tribal elders lay stretched out in an orthopedic ward here last week, their plastered limbs and winces of pain grim evidence...

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Dare We Stand Up for Muslim Women?

Johann Hari | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Islam, Islamic Radicalism, Saudi Arabia, Oil, Taliban, Iraq, Feminism, Politics News
Johann Hari

Shahnaz's husband and his brothers carefully gathered up battery acid, pinned her down, and hurled it into her face. Her crime was to be a Muslim woman who wanted to be treated as equal to a man.

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Obama's Missed Opportunity

Stephen Zunes | Posted 10.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama, Presidential Debates, Presidential Debate, Mccain, Resolution 1172, Shia Government, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Taliban, UN Security Council, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Iran Revolutionary Guard, Kyl-Lieberman Amendment, Sunni Militias, Resolution 487, Nawaz Sharif, Muqtada Al-Sadr, Home News
Stephen Zunes

If Obama expects to defeat John McCain, who indeed has more foreign policy experience, he must be more willing to challenge his opponent's record.

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Taliban In Afghanistan Behead As Many As 30 In Bus Ambush

NY Times | CARLOTTA GALL and TAIMOOR SHAH | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Islamic Radicalism, Afghanistan, War Wire, Islamic Extremists, Taliban Beheading, Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Politics News

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban insurgents pulled some 50 passengers off a bus in southern Afghanistan and beheaded as many as 30 of them after accusing...

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Taliban kill around 30 people after stopping bus

AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban militants stopped a bus traveling on Afghanistan's main highway through a dangerous part of the country's south,...

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Afghans Trained by Blackwater Defect to Taliban

Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Surge, Taliban, Iraq, Blackwater, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

Many Afghans working for the Afghan security forces are now switching sides and are now defecting to the Taliban. Guess who trained many of them? Blackwater!

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The Future of the War on Terror

Sir Lawrence Freedman | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Global Economy, Sir Lawrence Freedman, Terrorism, The War on Terror, Financial Crisis, Iraq, The West, Election 2008, Taliban, Capitalism, Barack Obama, A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Sir Lawrence Freedman

The most dangerous scenarios concern countries of some strategic importance imploding and NATO countries (for the moment) lacking the focus and capacity to respond.

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