Posts about Obama Surrenders Afghanistan as of October 27, 2009

Oct27 News Anchor AP – President Barack Obama made a pitch for renewable energy Tuesday, announcing $3.4 billion in government support for 100 projects aimed at modernizing the nation’s power grid.Read the Full StoryObama putting $3.4B toward a ’smart’ power grid (AP) Share and Enjoy:Related News PostsSeptember 10, 2009 — Obama hopes his pitch will sway health care debate (AP) – 739th Top News ItemSeptember 10, 2009 — Obama hopes his pitch will sway health care debate (AP) –

Oct27 News Anchor Reuters – Eight U.S. troops were killed in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday ahead of a run-off presidential election, the NATO-led alliance said, in the deadliest month for U.S. forces since the start of the war eight years ago.Read the Full StoryBomb deaths push U.S. toll to worst in Afghan war (Reuters) Share and Enjoy:Related News PostsSeptember 29, 2009 — NATO chief assures Obama on Afghan war support (Reuters) – 1255th Top News ItemSeptember 29, 2009 — NATO chief assures Obama on Afghan war support (Reuters) – 1245th Top News ItemOctober 23, 2009 — NATO considers beefing up Afghan war support (AP) – 1936th Top News ItemOctober 7, 2009 — U.S.

Oct27 News AnchorReuters – The defense bill President Barack Obama will sign into law on Wednesday contains a new provision that would pay Taliban fighters who renounce the insurgency, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said on Tuesday.Read the Full StoryU.S. defense bill would pay Taliban to switch sides (Reuters) Share and Enjoy:Related News PostsOctober 15, 2009 — Obama and aides debate options for Afghanistan (Reuters) – 1685th Top News ItemOctober 15, 2009 –

Oct27 News Anchor AFP – Eight new fatalities Tuesday made October the deadliest month yet for US forces in Afghanistan, as President Barack Obama announced a key meeting with army chiefs to discuss his fateful troop decision.Read the Full StoryEight more US troops dead in Afghan war’s blackest month (AFP) Share and Enjoy:Related News PostsOctober 23, 2009 — NATO considers beefing up Afghan war support (AP) – 1936th Top News ItemOctober 7, 2009 — Obama holds intense talks with lawmakers

Politico reports: Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he’s already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years. CBS’ Mark Knoller–an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related–wrote on his Twitter feed [Saturday] that, “Today – Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24.

Matthew Hoh Resigns: THERE’S YOUR SIGN! U.S. Official: Afghanistan Not Worth It Matthew Yglesias » Matthew Hoh Resigns Matthew Hoh seems like just the sort of person a country needs to wage successful counterinsurgency. He was in the Marine Corps, served in Iraq, rose to the rank of Captain and then after leaving the military joined the Foreign Service. … Matthew Hoh’s Resignation Letter « LewRockwell.com Blog Matthew Hoh’s Resignation Letter. Posted by Karen Kwiatkowski on October 27, 2009 12:00 PM.

Obama is about to sign a bill into law that will pay off the Taliban if they lay down their guns. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The defense bill that President Barack Obama will sign into law on Wednesday contains a new provision that would pay Taliban fighters who renounce the insurgency, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said on Tuesday. The provision establishes a program in Afghanistan similar to one in Iraq in which former fighters were reintegrated into Iraqi society, Levin told Reuters.

October 27th, 2009 He is a former Marine captain with combat experience in Iraq, a former uniformed officer at the Pentagon, a civilian in Iraq who joined the Foreign Service to make a difference. Now, Matthew Hoh has resigned, the first official protest resignation over the Afghanistan War. In a letter to the State Department’s personnel office last month, the 36-year-old diplomat wrote:I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan…To put simply: I fail to see the value or the worth in continued U.S.

For those of you who believe our mission in Afghanistan is a war of futility as I do then this article in today’s Washington Post reaffirms that notion. As you will learn, Matthew Hoh is no peacenik rabblerouser but a seasoned combat Marine, civil engineer and member of an elite Foreign Service team whose resignation shocked the top civilian foreign policy leaders in the Obama administration. “I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan,” he wrote Sept.

CNN October 27, 2009 A d v e r t i s e m e n t President Obama is scheduled to meet with the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday as part of his reassessment of the military strategy in Afghanistan, a White House spokesman said Tuesday. “It’s a chance to consult with uniformed military leadership as a part of his Af-Pak [Afghanistan-Pakistan] review,” White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said.

Tribal legends claim that in the foothills of the Afghan mountains, Cain (Qabil), an arable farmer, committed the first murder by killing his brother Abel (Habil), the shepherd. Cain and Abel have long been understood as the first and second sons of Adam and Eve in the religions of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Their story is told in the Bible and Torah at Genesis 4:1-16 and the Qur’an at 5:26-32. Although their story is cited in the Quran, neither of them is mentioned by name.

The Nation – The Nation — More and more, it seems that the Obama admin­is­tra­tion has utterly for­got­ten about Iraq.By I&VSphere: Related Content  Link to this page  Link to this page Copy the code below to your web site.x Get Link­ToTh­is­Page from the Cre­ative Real Estate Invest­ing Guide. Related postsThe Iraqi Time Bomb (The Nation) (0)The Iraqi Time Bomb (The Nation) (0)Obama’s civilian task in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq (The Christian Science Monitor) (0)Baghdad

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Abdullah Abdullah has  demanded the removal  of the head of the Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC), Azizullah Ludin , as well as the suspension of the ministers of Interior, Education, and Tribal Affairs. However, he did not specify what he would do if his demands are not met. Meanwhile, President Obama promised he  will not rush  the important decision of whether to send additional troops. The debate over troop levels has proven contentious for the  women’s movement  in Afghanistan, as explained by Michelle Goldberg.

more images more images Gibbs: Obama closer to decision on Afghanistan ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE ? The White House said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has nearly finished gathering information and advice on how to proceed in Afghanistan, but he will weigh his options before announcing a plan on U.S. troop strength there. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs [...]

Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) gave an address at the Center for American Progress today, calling on Congress and the Obama administration to revisit and reform key provisions of the PATRIOT Act through a full and open debate. Afterward, Rep. Harman sat down with ThinkProgress to discuss other issues relating to U.S. national security, such as the war in Afghanistan. Harman recently made news when she told an audience at the Brookings Institution that any further troop increases in Afghanistan “ wouldn’t be well received ” on Capitol Hill.

  A perfect example of liberal media bias occurred on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” when host David Gregory absolutely hammered Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) over what the Bush administration did in Afghanistan. Gregory takes it easy on the Democrat, and hammers the Republican   This occurred only a few moments after Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) made absurd comments about the current budget deficit without receiving any challenge whatsoever from Gregory.

  America has just suffered the deadliest day of the war in Afghanistan in more than four years, but Obama doesn’t have time to worry about that. He’s focused on another war: the war against his political enemies. The assault on Rush Limbaugh was just for starters. Today’s victim: Fox News. Is the media finally starting to hold Obama somewhat accountable? It’s not enough that four-fifths of the news networks march in lock step to the Obama administration and have turned from being the watchdogs to Obama lapdogs.

About 30 of my fellow Fellows crowded into a conference room at WJLA TV in Washington, which is also the home office of Politico. It’s a fun, interesting group and I spent a bit of time metaphorically kicking myself for not attending more Phillips Foundation events in recent years. Michael Goldfarb, editor at the Weekly Standard was there and endured some good-natured ribbing from colleagues with aplomb – or maybe it was with a plum – I can’t remember.

KABUL — Bomb attacks killed another eight American soldiers Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month for US forces in their eight-year war against the Taliban.The latest attacks, which were claimed by the Taliban, came the day after 14 US soldiers and narcotics agents died in helicopter crashes, piling pressure on US President Barack Obama as he mulls sending tens of thousands more troops.Seven of the soldiers were killed along with an Afghan civilian in one attack in the south of the country, said NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

After railing against Senators and Congressmen for their cowardly, uninformed and unacceptable attempts to prevent President Obama from bringing any Guantánamo prisoner to the US mainland for any reason — even for trials — which I wrote about most recently in an article entitled, “ On Guantánamo, Lawmakers Reveal They Are Still Dick Cheney’s Pawns ,” I’m delighted to report that, last Tuesday, the Senate finally saw sense, voting, by 79 votes to 19, as part of a $42.8 billion bill for Homeland Security, to accept that the administration can bring prisoners to the US mainland to face trials.

October 27th, 2009While the President claims he won’t “rush” to a decision on Afghanistan, and John Kerry carries his water for him, others don’t see the need to put off the application of more force to the region. Senator Richard Burr of South Carolina talked to Patti Ann Brown today on Fox news Channel;Senator Burr was in Afghanistan and talked to the generals while John Kerry wined and dined with diplomats.

Running a bit behind, courtesy of getting ready for and attending the TOGAF Hong Kong conference. Here’s the usual collection of Tweets and links, in the usual categories: Various notes on complex-systems: taotwit : Complex Adaptive Systems explained context: http://bit.ly/sUliQ bartleeten : @richardveryard Demanding Change: Mapping Complex-System Leverage Points to VPEC-T http://bit.ly/zvXZf jdevoo : Some entries in Google’s Project 10^100 consist of real-time issue reporting systems reminiscent of Beer’s Cybersyn http://bit.ly/20t71p thoughttrans : Life’s Perspective… http://gapingvoid.com/books/ Ignore Everybody!

One of the few perks of working in the salt mines called “Academia” is free online access to the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED — like most dictionaries — has a word of the day feature and while I don’t always like the word they choose I do like the concept of a word of the day. As an experiment I will try out this new feature of a “Word for the Day” for Threedonia and then use an example to highlight the word. Today’s word: Blather , n. “Voluble talk void of sense.” OED, 2d ed.

by JasonHistorically, presidents have been classified in four categories and they are: paradigm setters, successors, minority  party presidents, and restorers. We have numerous examples in which to pull from that gives those categories faces. Think of FDR and Reagan when it comes to paradigm setters; Grant as successor to Lincoln, Taft as successor to TR; Nixon and Clinton as minority presidents; Carter and W. Bush as restorers to their respective ideological political paradigms.

WDBO Radio President to Address US Combat Deaths Today FOXNews Fox News has learned that President Obama will address the recent US combat deaths in Afghanistan during his remarks in Florida today at the Naval Air Station Jacksonville. Fourteen Americans died Monday in Afghanistan following two helicopter crashes.

See this post: Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan: Does Anyone Get It Yet? Pamela Geller: [...] I have been saying it for months now: that Obama’s policies are sending our boys and girls to be slaughtered. The enemy in the White House strikes again . Obama said that victory is not the goal .

Hat Tip to Josh Gernstein at Politico.A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser.Snubbing the Dalai Lama.Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers.Freezing out a TV network.Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf, too.Barack Obama has done all of those things — and more.What’s remarkable is what hasn’t happened.

The Daily Loaf: The new threat to party politics As President Obama’s approval rating continues to slip, it is clear that he will face a much tougher race for re-election in 2012 than he ran last year. It’s like an overdue pregnancy; it’s been nine months, but he has yet to deliver. The markets are still fragile, and the dollar is going down while unemployment numbers are going up. Toss in our sky-rocketing debt and indecisive action in Afghanistan, and it starts to look like Obama isn’t the savior he was made out to be.

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U.S. troops on patrol in Paktika Province, Afghanistan Ed Hornick CNN While President Obama’s war council deliberates its strategy toward Afghanistan, the ghost of Vietnam is often invoked as a warning. Afghanistan, U.S. and coalition forces have been fighting in Afghanistan for eight years and until recently the war had been overshadowed by the one in Iraq. In March, Afghanistan will become America’s longest war, surpassing the Vietnam War.

Christopher Preble does the math: Yesterday Congress passed the $680 billion FY 2010Defense Authorization Bill , which authorizes the largest such budget since the end of World War II. If, as is all but certain, President Obama signs the legislation, he will have failed to halt the inexorable growth in military spending, and he will signal to American taxpayers that they should expect more of the same. What’s worse, most of this money is not geared to defending America.

Call me a cockeyed optimist, but take a look at this fascinating Washington Post piece about a latter-day Daniel Ellsberg who resigned from government service in disillusion with our Afghanistan policy. They must be reading this story with delight in the White House. I see striking similarities between President Obama’s approach to Afghanistan and his tactics in the health care reform battle.

A high-placed member of the Foreign Service has resigned over the Administration’s policy in Afghanistan: When Matthew Hoh joined the Foreign Service early this year, he was exactly the kind of smart civil-military hybrid the administration was looking for to help expand its development efforts in Afghanistan. A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department. By July, he was the senior U.S.

A series of powerful bombs killed eight American soldiers and an interpreter in southern Afghanistan early this morning. From the Washington Post : The attacks, which came one day after 14 Americans died in two helicopter crashes here, made October the deadliest month for the U.S. military of the eight-year war. At least 53 U.S. troops have died this month, with four days left before Nov. 1 and the Taliban insurgency continuing to expand its reach and lethal tactics.

U.S. official and former Marine resigns over Afghan war (some people make quick decisions).Tags: Afghanistan, Military, Obama This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 11:21 am and is filed under Broken News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

For their second event this semester, the Political Union and Review at New York University wrangled over the resolution: A US troop surge in Afghanistan is the best action to ensure US security . It was a lopsided debate at best. When it came to a show of hands, the surge lost 10 – 4 despite one “ironic” vote and one vote from a guy who arrived five minutes from the end. Views on Afghanistan were articulated by Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and a man simply representing the Left.

Related posts: Alleged Defacing of Quran Spurs Muslim Protests in Greece Athens police are investigating a complaint that an officer defaced…

Dana Milbank – Harry Reid, shopping for reelection insurance Milbank looks at the Senate majority leader’s solo performance in announcing that the final Senate health bill will include a government-run insurance plan and sees Nevada politics. With liberal groups pummeling Reid in his home state for his accommodating ways with moderates and his pursuit of Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, Reid broke out of his closed-door meetings with the White House policy team and Sens.

A man throws rubble onto a fire burning on what used to be his parents’ home in Samoa after a tsunami hit nearly a month ago. Eliza Browning AC360° Associate Producer Over the past six years, American Samoa has received nearly $13 million in direct grant aid from the Department of Homeland Security for the explicit purpose of disaster preparedness. Yet there was no siren system and only a very limited Emergency Action System in place when a tsunami hit on Sept. 29.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – Despite Republican pressure to act quickly, President Barack Obama says he won’t rush his decision about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan where 14 Americans died in the deadliest day for U.S. forces in more than four years. “While I will never hesitate to use force to protect the American people or our vital interests, I also promise you this—and this is very important as we consider our next steps in Afghanistan: I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm’s way,” Obama said Monday during a visit to Naval Air Station Jacksonville.

How goes the Obama war on Fox News? It’s turned into a “quagmire” for the brave Obamanauts with FNC’s ratings continuing to climb.

FTA- Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s proposal to send 40,000 additional U.S. combat troops to Afghanistan “reaches too far, too fast,” Sen. John Kerry warned Monday. “Under the right circumstances, if we can be confident that military efforts can be sustained and built upon, then I would support the President should he decide to send some additional troops to regain the initiative,” Kerry told the Council of Foreign Relations. Wjat all this really means is that Obama and Company don’t want to piss off their Left Wing base, so let more troops die and lose the war…

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It’s been eight years, dammit: We invaded Afghanistan to ensure that the country could never again be used to launch attacks against the United States. That mission is accomplished, and our only goal should be making sure it stays accomplished — whether the place is run by Hamid Karzai or the Taliban. The counterinsurgency campaign that Obama is contemplating looks like a step onto the slipperiest slope imaginable. It doesn’t matter whether the step is tentative or bold.

Election fiascos and strategy deliberations continue, while Pakistan’s army is laying waste to South Waziristan. The deliberations are of the utmost importance; more important and more pressing than health care reform. This is Obama’s second strategy review in nine months. He cannot, politically or strategically, continue on such a pace. That means that the decisions made can be expected to indicate overall policy for the rest of his term, if not longer in the way that policy develops a momentum of its own.

Consider this an experiment if you will; one column, chock full of links to those other places in the internets dimension that are either amusing, or relevant to the issues that matter to us, or both. A sort of web-based version of the brief summations that NR and the American Spectator do so well. If it is well-recieved and I don’t get bored with it, we will continue. If not, we’ve got plenty of other stuff to throw against the wall in hopes of finding the sticky stuff.

OBAMA’S “CZARS CZAR Czar Position Summary Richard Holbrooke Afghanistan Czar Ultra liberal anti gun former Gov. of New Mexico. Pro Abortion and legal drug use. Ed Montgomery Auto recovery Czar Black radical anti business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member. Jeffrey Crowley AIDS Czar Homosexual. A Gay Rights activist.

In yesterday’s article, we pointed out how for years liberals have led an all-out assualt against everything that is right about America, and have relentlessly attacked the very principles this country was founded upon. And how, for the most part, average everyday conservatives have left the battle to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, et al. I have some really bad news for you socialist left wing traitors. The free ride is over.

WASHINGTON – Washington, Oct.27 (ANI): As the Obama administration considers relying more heavily on remote-controlled drones to attack militants along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, there are concerns that Washington will risk losing the hearts and minds of civilians [...]

-By Marie Jon It is said that history always repeats itself one way or another. Nothing could be truer. For instance, look at what is taking place in our country today. Most Americans know that President Barack Obama and his czars are greatly influenced by the long-discredited teachings of Karl Marx. — View YouTube The United States is being undermined and frighteningly transformed before our eyes. We’re not going to like what’s in store for us if we fail to stop the madness.

But then, we already knew that.Hat Tip to Real Clear Politics. On 18 October, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel appeared on CNN’s State of the Union, and made these claims:And you know, here in Washington, we want to have a debate, and you can’t — we would love the luxury of this debate to be reduced down to just one question, additional troops, 40,000. This is a much more complex decision. Even the general’s own report and General Petraeus’ own analysis says the question, the real partner here is not how much troops you have, but whether in fact there’s an Afghan partner.

FOX NEWS WASHINGTON — A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan has become the first U.S. official to resign in protest of the Afghan war, the Washington Post reported early Tuesday. Matthew Hoh, who describes himself as “not some peacenik, pot-smoking hippie who wants everyone to be in love,” said he believes the war is simply fueling the insurgency.

According to Rasmussen polling: For the first time in recent years, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The GOP holds double-digit advantages on five of them. So much for the idea that the Republicans sucked so bad that the Democrats can’t lose.

Times OnlineUK October 27, 2009 A senior diplomat has become the first US official to resign in protest at the war in Afghanistan, in a move that has shaken the White House, according to reports. Matthew Hoh, 36, a former captain in the Marine Corps who fought in Iraq before joining the US State department, resigned from his post as the senior US civilian in Zabul province, a Taleban stronghold in Afghanistan. He said that he believed the war only fuelled the insurgency, the Washington Post reports.

Afghanistan a Success – Time to Come Home! by Karen Kwiatkowski LewRockwell.com Eight years ago, the public objective was to displace the Taliban and create a non-al-Qaeda supporting “democracy” in Afghanistan. For a moment, leave aside Washington’s more fundamental objectives in the military invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent base-building – security for the trans-Afghanistan pipeline project, restoring the opium exports that had finally subsided under Taliban enforcement by early 2001, and improved military positions vis-à-vis Iran, Pakistan and Russia.

ThinkFast: October 26, 2009 Following reports that President Obama was “actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as part of health care reform,” White House Deputy Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer wrote on the White House blog that “those rumors are absolutely false.” “President Obama completely supports” the Democratic […] Following reports that President Obama was “actively discouraging Senate

Federal Diary: Bargaining rights loom large President Obama wants to issue an executive order creating panels that would foster greater collaboration between management and labor in federal agencies, but it’s hard to craft a document that pleases both sides. Obama defends deliberate approach on troop levels for Afghanistan war JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — President Obama fired back Monday at critics who accuse him of taking too long to review war strategy in Afghanistan, telling an audience of military personnel he will not rush his decision on whether to send additional troops there.

I guess the burning Obama effigy adds some to the context but enquiring minds do want to know … [h/t jason] Afghans shout slogans during a protest in front of the parliament building in Kabul October 25, 2009. Afghan police used fire to disrupt the protest by thousands of people in the capital Kabul on Sunday over a report of burning of a copy of Koran by foreign forces, witnesses said.

WASHINGTON – John Kerry, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says a proposal to send as many as 40,000 more American troops to Afghanistan “goes too far and too fast”.   Speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations, Senator Kerry praised U.S. President Barack Obama’s current review of the nation’s strategy in Afghanistan. Kerry said that after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, America had to take military action.

Harry Reid has re-election problems. Is championing the public option really going to help matters? So much for being the anointed party favorite. Dede Scozzafava now trails Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 . (She also trails the Democrat.) Darn voters have minds of their own. A little late in the game, Tim Pawlenty endorses Hoffman.

Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. media has not yet picked up on the latest diplomatic controversy between Poland and the U.S. But the public disagreement between President Obama’s new ambassador in Warsaw Lee A. Feinstein and the Polish defense minister over plans to send additional Polish troops to Afghanistan is drawing media attention in Poland.

Los Angeles Times Obama says he will not rush Afghanistan decision The Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Despite Republican pressure to act quickly, President Barack Obama says he won’t rush his decision about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan where 14 Americans died in the deadliest day for US forces in more than four years.

Video and Transcript: Obama “I Will Never Rush” on Afghanistan (26 October) Receive our latest updates by email or RSS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR FEED Buy Us A Cup of Coffee? Help Enduring America Expand Its Coverage and Analysis This story will be huge in US press today, complementing and maybe overshadowing President Obama’s “I Will Not Rush a Decision” speech ; it is already Page 1 in The Washington Post .

Two fatal helicopter crashes in Afghanistan and large-scale bombings in Iraq have thrown into stark relief the risks for President

WASHINGTON : A former Marine turned diplomat has become the first U.S. official to resign in protest of the Afghan war, a US paper reported early Tuesday. Matthew Hoh fought in Iraq and joined the State Department after leaving the military. He resigned from his post as the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province, a Taliban stronghold. Hoh said he believes the war is simply fueling the insurgency. “I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan,” Hoh wrote in his resignation letter, dated Sept.

WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama is reportedly expected to announce a new policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan soon, which is expected to focus on Pakistan as a key player in the fight against extremists. According to reports, Obama recently held a Situation Room [...]

This is the moment….when Senator John Kerry, who served in Vietnam and currently chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Monday that he opposes sending more troops unless conditions on the ground improve in Afghanistan. I’d say that’s the basic gist of it. I think James Dobbins states it very well : James Dobbins, who served as a special envoy to Afghanistan during the Bush administration and is now at the Rand Corp., said that Kerry had made many “sensible” points in the speech but that he found the conclusion unsatisfactory.

Oct27 News Anchor AP – U.S. taxpayers spent about $32 subsidizing the cost of the typical Amtrak passenger in 2008, about four times the rail operator’s estimate, according to a private study.Read the Full StoryStudy: Amtrak loss comes to $32 per passenger (AP) Share and Enjoy:Related News PostsOctober 27, 2009 — Police: Pakistan army officer, mother attacked (AP) – 1997th Top News ItemOctober 27, 2009 — Bad weather could interfere with NASA test flight (AP) – 1995th Top News

Oct27 News Anchor Reuters – President Barack Obama, accused by some of dithering over a new strategy for Afghanistan, vowed on Monday not to be rushed into a decision over whether to send more U.S. troops to the war zone.Read the Full StoryObama tells troops he will not rush Afghan decision (Reuters) Share and Enjoy:Related News PostsOctober 27, 2009 — Obama tells troops he will not rush Afghan decision (Reuters) – 1866th Top News ItemAugust 21, 2009 — Obama vows to finish job after

JACKSONVILLE, Florida – US President Barack Obama is vowing that despite criticism that he is dithering, he will not rush a fateful decision on whether to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan. Obama on Monday promised US troops a clear …

Jacksonville (US), Oct. 27 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has reached out to the military men and women and said that his decision to send an additional 40,000 troops to war ravaged Afghanistan will not be one done in haste. “I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm’’s way. I won”t risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary,” Obama pledges to 3,000 marines, naval officers and their families who packed into an airplane hangar at the Naval Air Station here.

RedState Morning Briefing For October 27, 2009 1. Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group 2. Hoffman Now First 3. What Other 2012 Candidates Will Stand With Conservatives? 4. Alan Grayson Calls Female Advisor To Bernanke A “Whore” 5. Politico: Even Democrats Think Grayson “one fry short of a Happy Meal” 6. West Virginian Democrats shocked at War on Coal. 7. Obama plays golf instead of deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan ———————————————————————- 1.

JACKSONVILLE – US President Barack Obama has reached out to the military men and women and said that his decision to send an additional 40,000 troops to war ravaged Afghanistan will not be one done in haste. “I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm’s way. I won’t risk your lives unless [...]

Understanding “Mr Obama’s Wars”: Five Essential Analyses on Afghanistan and Pakistan Receive our latest updates by email or RSS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR FEED Buy Us A Cup of Coffee? Help Enduring America Expand Its Coverage and Analysis Click here to view the embedded video. Keeping you strong takes something else—a country that never forgets this simple truth. It’s not the remarkable platforms that give the United States our military superiority. Although you have some pretty impressive aircraft here.

Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. media has not yet picked up on the latest diplomatic controversy between Poland and the U.S. But the public disagreement between president Obama’s new ambassador in Warsaw Lee A. Feinstein and the Polish defense minister over plans to send additional Polish troops to Afghanistan is drawing media attention in Poland. Ambassador Feinstein made a public statement, in which thanked the Polish government for planning to enlarge its military contingent in Afghanistan, but Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klich has denied that a decision to increase Poland’s troop deployment in Afghanistan has been taken.

  Devastating twin car bombings wreaked carnage in the heart of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 147 people and injuring 520 others in the deadliest attack in the country in two years. The suicide bombers struck at the height of morning rush-hour, the first bomb targeting the justice ministry and the second, minutes later, a nearby provincial council building. Some of those killed and maimed were women with children, who had gone to the council to seek compensation for losses suffered in previous bombings and shootings.

FOXNews Obama says he will not rush Afghanistan decision The Associated Press Despite Republican pressure to act quickly, President Barack Obama says he won’t rush his decision about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan where 14 … Obama defends approach to Afghan war planning Washington Post SCENARIOS – Obama’s options in Afghan war Reuters India Obama’s choice: Ramp up or wind down war in Afghanistan Salt Lake Tribune Florida Times-Union

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US President Barack Obama’s steely-eyed determination to persevere with the war in Afghanistan despite fledgling public support has been dealt a body-blow with the shock announcement that a senior US diplomat has resigned due to becoming ‘disillusioned’ with the eight year long war. According to news.com.au , Matthew Hoh was a senior State Department official in Afghanistan’s Zabul province – a hotbed for Taliban militants, until he resigned last month. Hoh has become the first US official known to resign in protest over the war.

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Eric S, Margolis October 12, 2009 President Barack Obama and Congress are wrestling with widening the war in Afghanistan. After eight years of military operations costing US $236 billion, the US commander in Afghanistan just warned of the threat of `failure,’ aka defeat. Truth is war’s first casualty. The Afghan War’s biggest untruth is, `we’ve got to fight [...]

President Barack Obama mourned 14 Americans killed Monday in helicopter crashes in Afghanistan and told a military audience he will not be hurried as 9 Vote(s)

Oct.26, 2009 in barack obamaThe president’s speech to a military audience in Florida offered few clues about where the review of his policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan was heading.Tags: elesctions2008

World. The president’s speech to a military audience in Florida offered few clues about where the review of his policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan was heading.

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Obama doesn’t get it, I am quite sure.  He has some community organizing to do and if one were to check out South Chicago, one would figure out that he was just kidding then.  Right?  Must be.  I mean, what if he had to deal with bad publicity back then?  Man!  What if Fox News would have known about how silly he was back then?  I knew but, then again, I am ONLY the Snooper Report.  What do I know?  What if Chicago Ray would have known about the silly little pathetic community orgainzer back than?  Then again, what does he know?  He only LIVES in Chicago.

Two weeks ago, Obama’s hit men Axelrod and Emanuel went after the Bush administration on Afghanistan claiming the Bush team’s efforts were adrift, they did not ask any key questions about the war in Afghanistan, and that Obama officials had to form a strategy from scratch. Emanuel told CNN that the president is “asking the questions that have never been asked on the civilian side, the political side, the military side and the strategic side.” “It’s clear that basically we had a war for

This week, which is not the week I turned 17 (sorry for the delayed publishing time) I wandered around the southish eastish coast looking at colleges. The morning I was supposed to look at Georgetown, I got into a rather lengthy discussion with a gentleman from AIPAC, and missed the Georgetown tour. Not to be put off, I decided to wander around the campus pretending to be a student. This actually went fairly well–I enjoyed an econ class and a free cookie–until I started talking.

Oct27 News Anchor AP – President Barack Obama mourned 14 Americans killed Monday in helicopter crashes in Afghanistan and told a military audience he will not be hurried as he evaluates whether to alter U.S. strategy in the war.Read the Full StoryObama says he will not rush Afghanistan decision (AP) Share and Enjoy:Related News PostsOctober 26, 2009 — Obama says he will not rush Afghanistan decision (AP) – 553th Politcal NewsOctober 23, 2009 — White House rejects Cheney’s Afghanistan

Oct27 News Anchor Reuters – President Barack Obama, accused by some of dithering over a new strategy for Afghanistan, vowed on Monday not to be rushed into a decision over whether to send more U.S. troops to the war zone.Read the Full StoryObama tells troops he will not rush Afghan decision (Reuters) Share and Enjoy:Related News PostsAugust 21, 2009 — Obama vows to finish job after “successful” Afghan vote (Reuters) – 110th Top News ItemOctober 27, 2009 — Obama vows not to rush Afghan

By EDITH M. LEDERER (AP) UNITED NATIONS — All detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison should be freed or transferred to U.S. federal courts for trial by the Jan. 22 deadline set by President Barack Obama, a U.N. human rights investigator said Monday.Martin Scheinin, who reports on the protection of human rights in the war on terror, said the U.S. Navy-run prison in Cuba should not be closed by trying to prosecute detainees through military commissions, which he said do not meet international human rights standards despite “small fixes.”The prison was created by former President George W.

President Barack Obama is remembering 14 Americans killed Monday in helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, saying “they gave their lives to protect ours.” Obama said the dead Americans, which included three federal drug enforcement agents, were willing to risk their lives to keep Afghanistan from again becoming a safe haven for al-Qaida and extremist allies.Read more

by admin on October 27, 2009in World News JACKSONVILLE: President Barack Obama mourned 14 Americans killed Monday in helicopter crashes in Afghanistan and told a military audience he will not be hurried as he evaluates whether to alter U.S. strategy in the war. “I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm’’s way. I won”t risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary,” Obama said during a visit to Naval Air Station Jacksonville.

by admin on October 27, 2009in World News WASHINGTON: US Senator John Kerry on Monday accused former president George W. Bush’’s administration of “gross mishandling” of the Afghan war, and of leaving a terrible inheritance to President Barack Obama. “On day one, this administration assumed responsibility for a war heading from strategic drift to a dangerous decline,” Bush’’s rival in the 2004 US presidential election told the Council of Foreign Relations think-tank in Washington.