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• Afghanistan, Pakistan rattled by US 2011 troop exit plan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Islamabad, Dec.3 (ANI): President Barack Obama’s timetable for deploying additional American forces in Afghanistan next summer and his decision to start withdrawing them from July 2011, has rattled both Afghanistan and Pakistan.According to a report in the New York Times, Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Obama’s plan for Afghanistan

  
  U.S. Common Sense — Authority: 415
  Welcome to the busy season. The holidays are the time of year where it seems there is always something going on or someplace we have to be, leaving us little time to sit down and enjoy a little quality television. That was the case for me last night. I had to run out to Lowes to purchase some items for a holiday party ...
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• Afghanistan: Obamas catch-22

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  For a president who had taken 92 days to ponder a war that he is losing in Afghanistan, Barack Obamas conclusions were neither radical nor unexpected. He had to answer two fundamental issues – a demand for more troops framed in the baldest of terms by his senior commander, General Stanley McChrystal, (without them ...
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• US Troop Surge: relying on the unreliable in Afghanistan

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 590
  US President Obama’s troop pledge to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan rests on a gamble on unreliable and dubious allies supposedly working towards the pressing goals in that country. The troop surge will have to rely on the corrupt Karzai government, perceived to be one of the most corrupt ...
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• Hawkish Dem Delivers Stinging Critique Of Obamas Afghan War Escalation

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 806
  Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), usually a reliable supporter of the military adventure du jour, yesterday broke sharply with President Obama on Afghanistan, arguing that "a larger occupation" will give "the Taliban an enhanced recruiting tool." Harmans statement , released before Obamas speech, applauds in general terms ...
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• How to Achieve ‘Success’ in Afghanistan: difficult but doable

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 590
  US President Obama’s decision to send 30k troops to Afghanistan will ‘determine the outcome of the eight-year U.S. engagement in Afghanistan and perhaps even the broader state-building process.’ The fresh troop surge points to ‘gradual expansion of the international military mission under McChrystal’s ...
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• Secretary Clinton Ties New Strategy to Stated Afghan Desires

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  At today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the strategy as being responsive to a desire expressed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in his inaugural address to take more responsibility for security. “His words were long in coming, but they ...
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• Experts fear ousted Afghan Taliban will simply cross the border (and wait Obama out)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Pakistanis do not doubt that President Obamas troop buildup will give U.S. and allied forces more wherewithal to uproot Taliban militants from their strongholds in Afghanistan. What worries them is that the strategy will push Afghan Taliban over the porous border and bolster the ranks of brethren militants in ...
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• Taliban defiant over Obama pledge

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Barack Obama is to send 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan to finish the job. Will it work? Here are the initial assessments. • Taliban dismisses Obamas plan as no solution. • This is not just Americas war - Nato. 12.46pm: The BBC has this useful map showing where western forces are deployed. The south is ...
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• A Gut Reaction to Obama’s Afghanistan-Pakistan Speech: The Halfway House of The Long War (Part 1)

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 606
  This was a terrible speech. More importantly, it may come to mark a terrible moment in the Obama Presidency. Most importantly, it may come to mark — in months and years to follow — a terrible moment in American foreign policy. The speech is not terrible in its rhetoric or delivery. It is not terrible in its ...
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• Saad Mohseni Tweets on Obama Afghanistan Address

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 135
  Founder of the Moby Media Group, the media company behind Afghan Star and Tolo TV (without a doubt the best of the Afghan Satellite Television stations), Saad Mohseni , took to his Twitter profile tonight to respond to Barack Obama’s Afghanistan address. Below is Mohseni’s Twitter feed from tonight. Like us , ...
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• Obama Makes It Official: 30,000 More U.S. Troops to Head to Afghanistan

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 707
  He took his time to mull it over, and in a speech at West Point on Tuesday night President Barack Obama announced his decision about what course of action to take in Afghanistan, affirming reports that he plans to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to push back on the resurgent Taliban and to try to establish some semblance ...
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• The Greatest Hits and Misses of Obama’s Afghanistan Address

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 135
  Speaking at The United States Military Academy at West Point , U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama finally addressed the American people to provide a clear explanation for the United States’ efforts in Afghanistan. Obama also made it a point to remind the American people exactly why the United States is still in ...
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• Afghanistan-Pakistan: Video & Transcript of Obama Speech (1 December)

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 606
  THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. To the United States Corps of Cadets, to the men and women of our Armed Services, and to my fellow Americans: I want to speak to you tonight about our effort in Afghanistan — the nature of our commitment there, the scope of our interests, and the strategy that my administration will ...
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• Obama Announces 30K More Troops for Afghanistan

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  President Barack Obama addresses cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday night. (Sharkpixs/ZUMA Press) In a decision that may define his presidency, Barack Obama on Tuesday night announced the deployment of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by next summer in the hopes of bringing a ...
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• Afghanistan: Obama Doctrine

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 129
  It is easy to forget that when this war began, we were united – bound together by the fresh memory of a horrific attack, and by the determination to defend our homeland and the values we hold dear. I refuse to accept the notion that we cannot summon that unity again. I believe with every [...]
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• Barack Obama sets out final push in Afghanistan

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • New troops to be in Afghanistan within six months • US forces to begin pullout in summer 2011 Barack Obama last night set out a new strategy for Afghanistan that coupled a short-term escalation of the war with a promise that he will begin US troop withdrawals in July 2011, the first time that America has ...
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• Barack Obamas Churchill moment

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Leaders and war. This, really, is what history finally comes down to, is it not? Winston Churchills statue was not put up in front of the Houses of Parliament to commemorate his tenure as chancellor of the exchequer, or his rather forgettable second go at No 10. In the United States, the reputations of presidents who ...
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• Full Transcript of Obama’s Afghanistan Address

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 135
  Good evening. To the United States Corps of Cadets, to the men and women of our armed services, and to my fellow Americans: I want to speak to you tonight about our effort in Afghanistan the nature of our commitment there, the scope of our interests, and the strategy that my Administration will pursue to bring this ...
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