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• Pakistan is the challenge, say US lawmakers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) Top US lawmakers agree that Pakistan constituted the principal challenge for US policymakers as all major terror groups, including perhaps Osama bin Laden, were based in that country.John Kerry, Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, acknowledged Pakistan was at the ...
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• Pak Army has failed to engage sanctuaries of Afghan Taliban: Petraues

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec. 10 (ANI): While acknowledging that the Pakistan Army’s operation has “significantly degraded” the Taliban, US Central Command Chief General David Petraeus has said that the Pakistani troops have, however, failed to take stern action against the terror sanctuaries of the Afghan Taliban ...
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• Questions Raised About Obama’s El Salvador Ambassador

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  Today, the Obama White House announced the nomination of Mari Del Carmen Aponte as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. It is not Ms. Aponte’s first brush with an ambassadorship. In 1998, President Clinton nominated her to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. She was forced to withdraw her name from consideration ...
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• Afghanistan Success Attainable, Petraeus Says

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 445
  Achieving success against extremists in Afghanistan is a challenging, yet attainable mission, the commander of U.S. Central Command said at a Capitol Hill hearing in Washington, D.C. today, reports AFPS’ Gerry J. Gilmore. Success in Afghanistan “is of enormous importance, and it is attainable,” Army Gen. ...
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• Menendez to Petraeus: Tell Me How Much This Costs

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is no fan of the Afghanistan escalation. “Let me get this straight,” he said, the surge in Afghanistan is about U.S. security interests? “Our overriding objective, of course, is ensuring al-Qaeda and other transnational extremists don’t reestablish a sanctuary in Afghanistan,” ...
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• Lew On The Civilian Surge: Another ‘20-30 Percent’ Increase Next Year

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  During his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning, Jack Lew, the deputy secretary of state, praised Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Eikenberry for “their commitment for truly joined civilian-military efforts are absolute” in Afghanistan. Accordingly, he said, the U.S. troop ...
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• Kerry: ‘Our Success Depends on a Robust Civilian Effort’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) introduced today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan and Pakistan  — in which Deputy Secretary Jack Lew, who has the portfolio for managing the State Department, is joining Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry — by emphasizing two themes: “How ...
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• Where Does Pakistan Fit In to the Afghanistan Strategy?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  As I reported yesterday , the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opted to invite Gen. David Petraeus to testify alongside Ambassador Karl Eikenberry this morning in order to get a sense of the place of Pakistan in the Obama administration’s revised Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy. It’s a really valid question. ...
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• Treasury: Geither Testimony On G20 Coordination

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 127
  After the experiences of the Great Depression and World War II, the United States led in the creation of the international financial system that anchored prosperity and stability for more than 60 years. Today, that system must be reformed to address 21st century challenges.Timothy GeithnerSecretary Of The United ...
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• Why Isn’t McChrystal Testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tomorrow?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  Now that the House and Senate armed services committees have heard from Amb. Karl Eikenberry and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, there are two more hearings to go: the Senate Foreign Relations Committee tomorrow morning, and then the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday. Well, two for Eikenberry . McChrystal will ...
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• Gates Outlines Afghanistan Strategy For Lawmakers

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 445
  Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates appeared yesterday before the House Armed Services and Senate Foreign Relations committees to discuss the president’s revised strategy for Afghanistan. On Dec. 2, he appeared before the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Armed Services committees. Gates summed up why the ...
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• She Will Rock You [Snap Judgment]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 810
  [Washington, D.C., December 3. Image via Getty ] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) testifies with US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (R) before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 3, 2009. AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty ...
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• Pak still considers India the ‘real enemy’: Clinton

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec. 4 (ANI) : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that while Pakistan has initiated an all out war against the Taliban and other extremist organisations in Swat and South Waziristan, it still considers India the ‘real enemy’.Addressing the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee here, Clinton ...
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• Pakistan slowly convinced to act against terrorists: Clinton

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 4 (IANS) Pakistan has been slowly convinced that it has to take action against terrorists within its own territory, though it still considers India as its number one enemy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told lawmakers.“We’re dealing with a sovereign country that has a very ...
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• Al Qaeda helping LeT plot terror attacks in India: US

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 4 (IANS) US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has accused Al Qaeda of helping Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan based terrorist outfit blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks last year, to plot attacks in India to provoke a conflict between India and Pakistan.“Al Qaeda is supportive of ...
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• How Long Will the War Continue After July 2011? Two, Three, Five Years?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  During today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) tried to drill down on the pace of withdrawal from Afghanistan after the transition phase to Afghan control begins in July 2011 . Menendez suggested that the Obama administration is deceiving ...
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• The Extended Surge: ‘18 Months’ vs. ‘18 to 24 Months’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  Here’s a point that might have gotten lost in the shuffle yesterday during coverage of the marathon Afghanistan testimony from Secretaries Clinton and Gates and Adm. Mullen. The biggest inflection point in President Obama’s West Point speech was the line where he expressed what U.S. and allied troops, broadly ...
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• Obama’s Other Front: The Hill

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 699
  No matter what you think of it, the kind of troop increase that President Obama announced tonight is going to be expensive . With an estimated $1 billion dollar price tag for each additional thousand troops deployed, the new strategy will drive costs well above the $130 billion originally budgeted by the ...
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• Chairman Kerry Statement On President’s West Point Speech

  
  The Democratic Daily — Authority: 106
  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry released the following statement this evening following President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan : “I believe that the President defined a narrower mission tonight, not an open-ended nation-building exercise. A key component of that mission is providing that ...
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• The Rest of the Story

  
  In From the Cold — Authority: 122
  Just in time for President Obamas speech on Afghanistan, John Kerry and the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are revisiting an old canard in the War on Terror. In a report released yesterday--just in time for the Sunday papers and talk shows-- the panels Democratic majority repeats claims ...
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