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• General Stanley McChrystal

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 161
  General Stanley McChrystal welcomed President Obamas speech Photo: AFP/Getty Images General Stanley McChrystal -- Runner-Up Time Person Of The Year 2009 In 1982 a freshly minted army captain named Stanley McChrystal arrived at Fort Stewart, Ga., and was invited for a run by a more experienced captain ...
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• The Top 15 Winners and Losers of 2009

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 789
  Filed under: Hillary Clinton , Democrats , Republicans , Barack Obama , Mitt Romney , Environment , Iran , Mike Huckabee , Joe Biden , Supreme Court , Foreign Policy , Sarah Palin , 2012 President , Culture , Internet , Harry Reid , News Media , Unemployment Patricia Murphy , Matt Lewis , ...
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• Was There Actually an Airstrike in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  That’s the subject of an increasingly heated charge from the Afghan government after a Dec. 27 raid in the eastern province of Kunar left nine men dead. The International Security Assistance Force, NATO’s command in Afghanistan, said the men were part of an insurgent network planting improvised explosive devices. ...
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• Top 5 Natl Security List Misses a Few

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 795
  Its that time of year for Five Best and Ten Worst lists. And whether its best and worst movies or best and worse politicians, everybody will find at least one choice on every list that s/he thinks should not have been there. Or should have been switched from the best to the worst category, and vice versa. For ...
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• What’s So Progressive About Progressives?

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 436
  by Clyde James Aragon After reading in my local paper yet another glowing article about the ‘Progressive’ Movement, I have to ask, what’s so progressive about it? What do they even stand for? Freedom? Turning our medical system over to government bureaucracies will lead to more freedom? Letting the EPA control ...
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• Absolutely Too Stoned To Roll: Afghanistan’s Toking Troops Not Exactly Battle-Ready

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 521
  Top NATO commander General Stanley McChrystal calls training local soldiers and cops “ our main effort ” in Afghanistan. But whipping recruits into shape is a whole lot harder when they’re stoned out of their minds. “You walk into a whole squad of ANA [Afghan National Army] smoking hashish. They don’t ...
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• McChrystal strategy is tough on the ground

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 964
  In the Uzbeen valley, which was the scene of the deadliest ambush on Nato troops in Afghanistan, Western commanders struggle with the idea that diplomacy, not massive firepower, can beat the Taliban.
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• Resource rich Balochistan new target in US’ ‘war on terror’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec. 23 (ANI): Pakistan’s largest province in terms of area and a region rich in natural resources, such as copper and natural gas, Balochistan, may soon find itself engulfed in the ‘war on terror’, as the US is pressing Islamabad to take on the ‘Quetta Shura’ (Taliban’s Union ...
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• Video : Lara Logan Brings Intelligence to Afghanistan Debate

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 127
  CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was on the Colbert Report earlier this month to speak on Barack Obama’s then newly announced U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan. Logan deflected Colbert’s questions with intelligence that took the simple human elements of daily life and the complexities of the situation in ...
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• Jingle All The Way to Bagram!

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  If you were an Afghan, and maybe you had a family member or a friend or someone you knew detained at the vast U.S. prison at Bagram Air Field, how would you feel about the Pentagon sending this fluffy news piece around ? BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Dec. 22, 2009 – Army soldiers and civilians serving in ...
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• Bombs not away: Astan rules put troops at risk

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  As part of his push to win over the people of Afghanistan, top US Gen. Stanley McChrystal in July abolished air attacks in all but the most dire of circumstances. But that ban is having all kinds of ugly and unexpected consequences. US troops are paying a tough price for it. Consider the running firefight that Echo ...
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• The 10 Most Intriguing People of 2009 (Meghan McCain praises Hillary, says Tea Partiers "divisive")

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  From General McChrystal to Hillary Clinton to Chelsea Handler, Meghan McCain names the men and women who made a difference this year—the good, the bad, and the nutty. This year has been full of people who let us down—from politics to entertainment to sports. (Is it too late for Tiger Woods, Mark Sanford, and David ...
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• Did Obama "Dither"? Troops in Kandahar Arent Complaining

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 141
  As I mentioned earlier , I spent a few days this week in Afghanistan with Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Michael Mullen. A breakneck schedule didnt allow for as much time with ground troops as I would have liked. But I did get a chance to ask some how about the Obama administrations Afghanistan strategy review ...
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• Iranian-Backed Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 140
  Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by ...
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• Quetta Attack Plan

  
  The Pakistani Spectator — Authority: 451
  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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• Charles Krauthammer, Prophet

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  A Foreign Policy end-of-the-year list recovers this embarrassing Sept. 27 prediction from Charles Krauthammer, one that I missed when rounding up the conservative/Republican messaging on Afghanistan. Chris Wallace: “ Best guess: W ill the president end up giving McChrystal the troops he wants , or ...
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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: 129
  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 ...
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• McChrystal on Torture in Afghanistan

  
  liberal catnip — Authority: 122
  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: 551
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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