Afghan Withdrawal Announcement on Thursday: Surge Troops to Stay Until End of...
The plan for July withdrawals in Afghanistan will be announced Wednesday, but the strong indication is that surge troops (numbering 33,000) will be removed over an 18-month time period. The fact that...
View ArticleAdministration’s New Afghan Strategy Looks Like Joe Biden’s 2009 Afghan Strategy
The United States has a revised strategy for the war in Afghanistan, one which, according to Spencer Ackerman, is pretty bracingly honest: The Obama administration, as the Washington Post reports, is...
View ArticleKarzai Says He Was Told By CIA That Despite Exposure Cash Bribes Will Continue
The CIA faced some embarrassment when it was revealed that the intelligence agency had been giving Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai bags of cash for favorable treatment. This revelation was...
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