Tuesday, February 14

US military mission in Afghanistan beyond 2014 begins to take shape

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February 14, 2012 - 1:50 PM ET : US, Afghans near deal on post-2014 mission: Panetta AFP [ via e-Ariana.com ] WASHINGTON — US and Afghan of...
Monday, February 13

American Raj

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MICHAEL WRIGHT: You wrote in one of your recent essays that Americans shouldn't try to help Pakistan, that they're the wrong people...
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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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Madame Ambassador, regimes that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

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February 10 , The News Tribe (Pakistan): Washington: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman has conveyed the reservations ...
Thursday, February 9

What comes around goes around

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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has suddenly decided that it's not the Egyptian military's new best friend , after all. See the NPR r...

Be less helpful or be less squeamish

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The British air command did play a role with Germany but the basic story is that after the United States bombed Germany and Japan to rubble,...
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...

Has Kayani decided ISI is the sacrificial goat?

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Well, the general has to find some means to placate the IMF fast, or he's in deep doo-doo. However, we can't learn the answer until ...
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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 ...
Tuesday, January 31

Obama announces continued big U.S. aid to Pakistan's regime. Will this encourage it to continue stealth ethnic cleansing in FATA?

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January 31, CNN-IBN : [During an online town hall] US President Barack Obama hit out at Pakistan for its inability to fight terrorism. Obama...
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Monday, January 30

The tell

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During his discussion with Scott Pelley for CBS 60 Minutes, aired last night, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta went through a short li...

Yo, State: how do you explain this?

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China wins first Afghan oil extraction contract . Oh but that's right I forgot: you were so busy helping Pakistan scare up American inve...
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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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