Showing posts with label NATO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NATO. Show all posts
Saturday, February 25

Koran burning riots, Day 5: Two US officers murdered at Afghan ministry; Allen recalls all Nato staff from ministries

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Qur'an burning protests: Nato recalls staff after two officers are shot dead Damien Pearse and agencies February 25, 2012, 8:53 AM EST T...
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Friday, February 24

Afghan Koran burnings: Aw, put a sock in it, Newt

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I'm writing this post in the attempt to correct the wrong impression that Newt Gingrich's criticism of President Obama's apology...
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Friday, February 10

Amrullah Saleh on Afghanistan's neglected majority

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Readers who've followed my blog for years would understand why I interrupted my weekend to post the following op-ed at the Wall Street J...
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Friday, February 3

Vanishing Act

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Leon Panetta set off such an uproar on Wednesday afternoon with his mention of (maybe) a 2013 exit from Afghanistan for U.S. combat troops t...
Thursday, February 2

Afghan War, Groundhog Day chapter

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Many things happened with blinding speed yesterday after Washington awakened to the news, already all over Europe, Kabul, Tehran and Rawalpi...
Wednesday, February 1

Obama caves into pressure from NATO allies: Panetta announces 2013 as end to U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan

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UPDATE 7:30 PM ET Jennifer Griffin reporting frm Pentagon 7:07 PM for Fox: White House unnamed official claiming Panetta might have jumped t...

Who was the leaker at NATO? (UPDATED 2X)

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(First updated version, at 4:55 PM ET, added a few clarifications. The second update, at the end of the post, is a question from a reader an...

Deputy Barney Fife meets the Dragon Lady

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"Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar in Kabul on February 1." Pix from RFERL i...

NATO's Superduper Top Secret You Mustn't Read This leaked report: "ISI supporting Afghan Taliban" or what NATO and waterbugs have in common

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Once I was chasing a waterbug around the house to kill it when it made an executive decision to hide instead of run. "You do realize I ...
Friday, January 27

Urgent advice for State: Warn Obama to stop pushing the envelope (UPDATED 2X)

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UPDATE 2:05 PM ET January 29 Adding two important news reports to the footnotes, both of which I'd misplaced at the time I published th...
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Wednesday, January 25

Uh oh. Is NATO lying in its teeth about the level of violence in Afghanistan?

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"We find their suggestion that the insurgency is waning to be a dangerous political fiction ..." NATO is consistently reporting a ...
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Tuesday, January 24

Let's see what kind of mood Messr. Sarkozy is in today.

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The conference I was attending broke up early. Translation: I got bored and cut out. So I'm as free as a bird until Thursday. Translatio...
Sunday, January 22

Note

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Starting with the "Moo Shu Pakistan" essay I've published seven posts since around 4:30 ET on Friday morning; I've been dr...
Saturday, January 14

"It is a bold challenge to the United States and Pakistan to live up to their pious homilies."

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"This is the first time that the leadership of the Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara communities has come to a common line of thinking to oppose ...
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Friday, December 30

Washington's 40 percent solution to Pakistan's proxy war against NATO in Afghanistan or Pundita's solution. Take your pick.

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I begin with thanking Madhu at Chicago Boyz and Zenpundit's Mark Safranski for highlighting my December 17 post, Would the U.S. pay Pa...
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Saturday, December 17

Would the U.S. pay Pakistan's military to help murder American troops if the U.S. had military conscription?

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Through it all -- throughout all the deceptions, denials, evasions, rationalizations and insultingly useless advice given over the years by ...
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Monday, December 5

Hillary Clinton has serious concerns about Russia's parliamentary election vote. I have serious concerns about State.

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In a sickening irony U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton chose to announce while she was attending a conference on Afghanistan's f...