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Afghanistan War

Jan 4, 2010: Was Killing of CIA Agents in Afghanistan A Lashkar al-Zil Operation?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , CIA
Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times Online's Pakistan Bureau Chief, reported January 4, 2009, that, “The suicide attack on the United States Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA's) forward operating base of Chapman in the Afghan province of Khost last week was planned...

Dec 31, 2009: Pakistan: ‘Coalition Forces Shouldn’t Leave Afghanistan in Haste’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Asian Affairs
Abdul Basit, Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) spokesman, told journalist on December 30, 2009, that “The decision to leave Afghanistan should be taken when the country is able to look after itself effectively.” See “Coalition should not leave Afghanistan in haste,...

Dec 31, 2009: CIA Deaths a Successful Taliban Intelligence Operation
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Tom Coghlan, Times Online, January 1, 2010: “The Taleban have infinitely smaller resources. But their successful strike within a CIA base indicates that their own intelligence operation can also hit its mark.” See “CIA caught in dirty and secretive war...

Dec 28, 2009: When Did The U.S. Become Involved In Afghanistan?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War
Former New York Times reporter and prolific author Stephen Kinzer reports in a December 28, 2009, article in the Guardian’s informative Comment is Free blog that, “This week marks the 30th anniversary of the fateful decision, little noted at the...

Dec 28, 2009: Should U.S. Afghan Strategy Focus on Quality of Life?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War
Stanley A. Weiss, founding chairman of Washington, D.C-based Business Executives for National Security, writing in the December 28, 2009, Los Angeles Times: The Obama administration has outlined a three-pronged strategy in Afghanistan, focusing on security, governance and economic development. But...

Dec 2, 2009: Obama’s Fears About the Cost of the Afghan War
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Obama's Foreign Policy
The Los Angeles Times’ Doyle McManus, writing in a December 2, 2009, analysis of President Barack Obama’s December 1, 2009, address to the world about the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, makes this revelation: Over lunch in the White House library...

Nov 17, 2009: Is U.S.’ AfPak Policy a Mistake?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Opinion & Analysis
Shahid Javed Burki, an writer at the Pakistani publication Dawn.Com, states emphatically in a November 17, 2009, post that, “Pakistan is not Afghanistan. See “AfPak policy a mistake.” He contends: By coupling the two countries together and calling it ‘AfPak,’...

Nov 10, 2009: Why Isn’t There Debate on Ending U.S. Role in the Afghan War?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Opinion & Analysis
“While [U.S] President Barack Obama reviews his strategy on Afghanistan, a perfect moment to send a strong unified message to end the war is slipping through our fingers,” wrote Sonali Kolhatkar, a Foreign Policy In Focus contributor and co-director of...

Nov 10, 2009: Foreign Policy: ‘Afghanistan is Neither Vietnam nor Iraq’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Opinion & Analysis
William Tobey, a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, notes in a November 10, 2009 post at Foreign Policy’s informative AfPak blog that, “As President Obama contemplates a new strategy in Afghanistan, Washington is obsessed with whether the...

Nov 9, 2009: The Political Fallout From Britain’s Afghanistan Adventure
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Opinion & Analysis , Political Affairs
“Ever since Alexander the Great was wounded by a Pashtun archer’s arrow in 327BC Afghanistan has been known as the graveyard of empires,” writes the Times Online’s Rachel Sylvester in a November 10, 2009 post. “It is now becoming increasingly...