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  • Setting Afghan exit date defeatist: defense panel 22 Nov 2009 00:30 GMT
    ... public pressure to end the war in Afghanistan eight years on, politicians and experts decried calls for setting an ... but added it was important for his government "to set success criteria and not exit ...

  • US panel says setting Afghan exit date defeatist 22 Nov 2009 05:54 GMT
    ... public pressure to end the war in Afghanistan eight years on, politicians and experts on Saturday decried calls for ... but added it was important for his government "to set success criteria and not exit ...

  • --How Two Elections Changed America 22 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... in 1974, all further darkening the American political landscape. In reaction to Nixon’s Watergate debacle, ... roof of the White House. Instead of government-led efforts to address the nation’s challenges, Reagan ... decision to escalate the CIA’s support for Afghan mujahedeen – essentially Islamist warlords – fighting ...

  • Afghans want Obama to pressure Karzai 22 Nov 2009 04:34 GMT
    ... On Afghanistan's independence day in August, my friends in ... in Kandahar were puzzled. Why was the government bothering to celebrate the holiday? With 100,000 ... the United States interfere in Afghanistan's domestic politics?" In fact, as my friends noted on ...

  • Critics of Afghanistan need to look in mirror 22 Nov 2009 08:11 GMT
    ... into Kabul last Thursday to rain on Afghan President Hamid Karzai's second-term inauguration parade. Clinton ... payoffs to Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, and politicians. American "black" programs deliver more tens of ... nations pay no income taxes. So each government official levies his own little personal taxes. ...

  • Reject surge answer for Afghanistan 22 Nov 2009 04:34 GMT
    ... whether America should escalate its involvement in Afghanistan by sending more troops. Many who advocate ... deliver the wrong message to the Afghan government, allowing leaders to believe they can ignore ... building an effective army instead of his political power and bank account. Obama has called ...

  • Clinton Emerges as Obama's Closest Link to Afghanistan's Unsteady Leader 22 Nov 2009 05:53 GMT
    ... his go-between in dealing with the mercurial Afghan leader. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Richard C. ... rapport with the Afghan leader, according to administration officials. It is a new and risky ... we can't hope to succeed without a political channel that works.” Mrs. Clinton “combines the ...

  • Strong message needed on Afghanistan 22 Nov 2009 06:31 GMT
    ... - The residents of the Afghan capital, both native and foreign, are waiting ... and to buy time for the Afghan government to develop its own security forces. In ... press Karzai on reforms. • Keep domestic politics from undercutting the message to Afghans. On ...

  • Army fears anti-Obama politics at Palin appearance; bans media from event 22 Nov 2009 04:33 GMT
    ... Army fears anti-Obama politics at Palin appearance; bans media from event ... states that were key to the 2008 election, including North Carolina. She made several stops ... that Obama should provide more troops to Afghanistan. "It frustrates me and frightens me — ...

  • Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence 22 Nov 2009 00:16 GMT
    ... Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence Khalid Khan ... Afghanistan's people live within its path. The government believes it will create hundreds of thousands ... company, China Railways Corp., the Public Works Ministry or the Asian Development Bank was willing ...

  • U.S. House Speaker Says Afghan Leader 'Unworthy Partner' 22 Nov 2009 03:11 GMT
    ... are currently about 68,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. U.S. commanders in Afghanistan have said up ... want tangible action. Nasrullah Stanakzai, a Kabul-based political analyst, tells RFE/RL that Karzai won't regain ... part of the fight against corruption, Afghan government agencies should be cleaned up from three ...

  • Taming the mafia state: Anti-graft pressure mounts in Afghanistan 22 Nov 2009 04:39 GMT
    ... wanted to hear from Hamid Karzai when Afghanistan’s president was sworn in for a second ... state”. In his inauguration speech, he said ministers in his administration must be “competent and ... batted back questions about corruption in his government with his oft-repeated line that foreign donors ...

  • Afghan victims of Taliban violence suffer in silence 22 Nov 2009 07:16 GMT
    ... in the road and killed six Ten Afghans were killed on the spot -- a ... and more civilians are becoming and Afghan government forces, backed by more than 100,000 international ... place every day," said Suraya Paikan, deputy minister of public works. Victims' families are entitled ...

  • American efforts must fail' for Afghanistan to succeed 22 Nov 2009 08:12 GMT
    ... KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's inauguration Thursday was a ... this. The U.S. does not. The Afghan government might. The struggle in Afghanistan is all ... in charge, free to make its own political decisions and to learn its own lessons. ...

  • In Afghan militias, hope (Today) 22 Nov 2009 07:42 GMT
    ... Dexter Filkins, The New York Times ACHIN, Afghanistan -- American and Afghan officials have begun ... will tie the groups to the Afghan government. These checks aim to avoid repeating mistakes ... Taliban," said Hanif Atmar, the Afghan interior minister. "The Afghans are saying, 'We are willing ...


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