Stanley McChrystal

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• Quetta Attack Plan

  
  The Pakistani Spectator — Authority: 444
  When President Obama explained his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to support General Stanley McChrystal’s new counterinsurgency campaign, he left a key question unanswered: Will this be enough to achieve U.S. strategic ends in Af-Pak? U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine calls for ...
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• ISRs Mean JOBS for Someone

  
  Building A Better Indiana — Authority: 130
  When the IRS comes calling, most people are worried. Switch two letters to ISR and the tone switches from potential tax troubles to economic opportunity. Although health care reform still dominates the discussion in Washington, those engaged in the military are preparing for a 30,000-troop expansion in Afghanistan. ...
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• Afghanistan’s Problems Remain Beyond America’s Reach

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  We can’t anymore save Afghanistan from its 13th century culture than we can teach Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to sing rap.Washington“The 30,000 additional troops that I’m announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 — the fastest possible pace — so that they can target the insurgency and secure key ...
  19 hours ago

• McChrystal on Torture in Afghanistan

  
  liberal catnip — Authority: 129
  US General Stanley McChrystal, speaking to reporters in Ottawa today had this to say about torture allegations: The commander of the International Security Assistance Force said he was aware of allegations that some detainees may have been tortured, but he said he wasnt aware of any "specific incidents" in which ...
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• Make or break surge in Afghanistan

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  AMONG the army huts clustered on the bleak, windswept outskirts of Kabul is the Counterinsurgency Training Centre, Afghanistan. It is where 50-year-old US special forces colonel John F. Agoglia devises strategy and tactics to deal with a worsening Taliban crisis that by some estimates has put about half of the ...
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• Obama’s Afghanistan Numbers Not Adding Up

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 742
  The Washington Post’s David Ignatius reports from Afghanistan: I asked Lt Gen. David Rodriquez, the No. 2 US commander here, in a briefing tonight how long the deployment of the extra 30,000 would take. He answered that “it will happen between nine and eleven months,” starting in January 2010. Which means ...
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• UPDATED “Where is My Vote?” (Part 2): TIME Snubs Green Movement as “Person of the Year”

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 599
  UPDATE 0925 GMT: US National Public Radio is conducting a parallel poll , so far without throwing out “Iran Protesters”. President Obama is the Leader of the Others, with 2% of the vote. Yep, 2%. He’s got a way to go to catch those pesky Protesters, who are on 93%. United4Iran offers comments on the ...
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• American KGB Hostel for the Brown Skinned

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 131
  Hey kids!  This is war criminal Donald Rumsfeld visiting the KGB prison/torture museum in Lithuania in 2005.This is the Donald’s letter of thanks for the torture tour and twisted words of Soviet style propaganda.Below is our CIA torture facility in Lithuania, which was in operation in 2005.  It’s just down the ...
  2 days ago

• Afghanistan: The 9 Surges of Mr Obama’s War

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 599
  Tom Englehardt, writing at TomDispatch , goes beyond the headline “30,000 extra troops” of President Obama’s recent announcement to detail the extent of the US escalation and long-term commitment — despite Obama’s initial declaration of a “beginning to the end” of the military presence in July 2011 — ...
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• “Where is My Vote?”, Part 2: TIME Snubs Green Movement as “Person of the Year”

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 599
  UPDATE 0800 GMT: Iran News Now has a spirited investigation of Time’s poll and the dropping of “Iran’s Protesters” from the final list for Person of the Year. t may not rank with the alleged theft of June’s Presidential election, but Time magazine just put itself in the role of vote-stealing villain ...
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• The Final Showdown: Obama Declares War On Pakistan

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 583
  By Webster G. TarpleyWASHINGTON, DC — Obama’s West Point speech of December 1 represents far more than the obvious brutal escalation in Afghanistan — it is nothing less than a declaration of all-out war by the United States against Pakistan . This is a brand-new war, a much wider war now targeting Pakistan , a ...
  3 days ago

• Mercenaries and assassins: The real face of Obama’s “good war”

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 438
  Bill Van Auken, wsws.org , Dec 13, 2009 Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan have further exposed the real character of so-called “good war” that is being escalated by the Obama administration. ...
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• President Obama’s Afghanistan Policy Speech

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  As President, I have signed a letter of condolence to the family of each American who gives their life in these wars. I have read the letters from the parents and spouses of those who deployed. I visited our courageous wounded warriors at Walter Reed. I’ve traveled to Dover to meet the flag-draped caskets of [...]
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• "Hunt for Bin Laden" A National Shame

  
  911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related News — Authority: 556
  
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• Obama’s Exit Strategy

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 137
  By Patrick J. Buchanan If actions speak louder than words, President Obama is cutting America free of George Bush’s wars and coming home. For his bottom line Tuesday night was that all U.S. forces will be out of Iraq by mid-2011 and the U.S. footprint in Afghanistan will, on that date, begin to get smaller and ...
  1 week ago

• Al Jazeera’s Interview of General Stanley McChrystal

  
  By The Fault — Authority: 406
  Riz Khan of Al Jazeera interviews General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the NATO ISAF forces in Afghanistan. Return to Main’
  1 week ago

• Bathelor: What Is Achievable?

  
  RBO — Authority: 527
  John Batchelor writes on his blog:Pakistan Sanctuaries George Friedman, Stratfor.com, told me Tuesday 8 that the McChrystal mission of training the ANA and police to stand-up by mid 2011 and after is unrealistic, because the lesson of Vietnam was the more you expand the indigenous forces, the more your security [...]
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• Afghanistan Schools: Of Bombs, Grenades & Hope

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 675
  How do you defeat your perceived “enemy”? Use bombs, grenades and drones? Substitute the bombs with books? Or, have a mix of both? Greg Mortenson, a humanitarian worker and author of two best-selling books, has demonstrated the power of books, and education, even in the highly violence-ridden worlds of Pakistan ...
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• McChrystal – bin Laden Death,Capture Tied to al Qaeda Defeat

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 526
  Call it a hunch, and I know many will disagree, but I have a feeling the net may be closing in around Osama bin Laden.Osama bin Laden is an iconic figure among extremists who must be captured or killed in order to defeat al Qaeda, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said on Tuesday.“I don’t [...] This story ...
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• Around The Services

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 446
  SecDef Gates takes the President’s Afghan strategy to troops in theater. Plus, GEN McChrystal makes his case to Congress for more troops.
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