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The importance of the U.S.-Afghanistan alliance - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • Then came meddling regional actors, who took advantage of feuding factions and a power vacuum, only to be followed by the Taliban, which brought deadly repression and became host to terrorists.
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      Who would this be? India and Pakistan.
  • On Dec. 31, we fulfilled our promise to our people and our commitment to your president and to NATO by taking full responsibility for combat operations in our countr
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      However, now the US is going to keep troops longer; by slowly withdrawing them.
  • A continued security partnership — with training, advice and assistance from the United States — will ensure that we will be an important ally in the decades to come.
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      What does Afghanistan want...assistance=$$, troops, and training.
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  • Afghans protect and cherish the many schools built with U.S. assistance that are teaching more than 3 million of our daughters to read, along with the clinics that have saved the lives of tens of thousands of our wives and mothers
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      How the US/NATO are helping. Changing of Islamic society ways (who is NOT going to like this??)
  • With peace will come development that lets Afghanistan benefit from America’s business experience.
  • corruption
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      remember: GHOST MONEY
  • Our legal system must be comprehensively restructured, and a national review of all prosecutors and judges to weed out corrupt or unqualified officials is already underway. More reforms will follow.
  • Political stability is built on a bedrock of economic growth.
  • resources
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      What do they have?
  • nearly 40 years of conflict, poor governance and economic mismanagement have stifled growth in Afghanistan, leaving us dependent on outside aid.
  • Citizens’ Charter
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      not yet started...
  • Localized insurgencies and external enablers have evolved into existential threats to states
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      Taliban (Pakistan-Taliban?), ISIS?
  • Pakistan’s military operations are pushing a number of terrorist networks into our territory.
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      Um, that is not good.
  • Narcotics
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      This is a problem.
  • Our government will join free-trade arrangements that build prosperity and promote peace.
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      Hopeful thinking as of now.
  • Properly supported, Afghanistan is uniquely positioned to block the spread of extremism.
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      Why America should support Afghanistan.
  • And after 36 years of conflict, our people have become immunized against ideologically based conflict.
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      no proof to this.
  • But we will not surrender the gains that we have made in education, health, democratic development, the media, civil society and women’s rights.
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      jason adkison on 04 May 15
       
      Why America should continue to support Afghanistan.
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C.I.A. Delivers Cash to Afghan Leader's Office - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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      jason adkison on 29 Apr 13
       
      Again, what does Afghanistan have to offer both American and Iran?
  • One is Abdul Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek whose militia served as a C.I.A. proxy force in 2001. He receives nearly $100,000 a month from the palace, two Afghan officials said. Other officials said the amount was significantly lower.
  • “I asked for a year up front in cash so that I could build my dream house,” he was quoted as saying in a 2009 interview with Time magazine.
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  • They’ll work with criminals if they think they have to,” one American former official said.
  • The Iranians gave $3 million to well over $10 million a year, they said.
  • Interestingly, the cash from Tehran appears to have been handled with greater transparency than the dollars from the C.I.A., Afghan officials sai
  • When word of the Iranian cash leaked out in October 2010, Mr. Karzai told reporters that he was grateful for it. He then added: “The United States is doing the same thing. They are providing cash to some of our offices.”
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      jason adkison on 29 Apr 13
       
      lol.
  • Mr. Salehi, though, is better known for being arrested in 2010 in connection with a sprawling, American-led investigation that tied together Afghan cash smuggling, Taliban finances and the opium trade. Mr. Karzai had him released within hours, and the C.I.A. then helped persuade the Obama administration to back off its anti-corruption push, American officials said.
  • “an enemy of the F.B.I., and a hero to the C.I.A.”
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      jason adkison on 29 Apr 13
       
      American tax $ at work.
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C.I.A. Delivers Cash to Afghan Leader's Office - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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      jason adkison on 29 Apr 13
       
      Bam!
  • “The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan,” one American official said, “was the United States.”
  • Mr. Karzai is seemingly unable to be bought.
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  • Iranians to halt their payments
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      jason adkison on 29 Apr 13
       
      Note the Afghan National Army.
  • Like the Iranian cash, much of the C.I.A.’s money goes to paying off warlords and politicians, many of whom have ties to the drug trade and, in some cases, the Taliban.
  • The result, American and Afghan officials said, is that the agency has greased the wheels of the same patronage networks that American diplomats and law enforcement agents have struggled unsuccessfully to dismantle, leaving the government in the grips of what are basically organized crime syndicates.
  • While intelligence agencies often pay foreign officials to provide information, dropping off bags of cash at a foreign leader’s office to curry favor is a more unusual arrangement.
  • here the United States built the government that Mr. Karzai runs.
jason adkison

Iran's Nuclear Program -- Printout -- TIME - 0 views

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      jason adkison on 05 Mar 13
       
      Intro+The End of Containment 1. According to the article, what are the named and vaguely named issues between Iran and the west historically speaking? 2.Who is Robert Gates and what makes him an expert? 3.What was Robert Gates advice on Iran? 4. Which people favoured the "other side"? 5. What were some of the "other side's" positions? 6.What is Obama's law history with Iran? How does this connect back to his first act as president? 7. WHat is the caveat to both Gates and Clinton story?  8. Ultimately, what is the Obama administrations stance on Iran (as of March 11, 2013)
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Japan Keeps Its Cool | Foreign Affairs - 0 views

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      jason adkison on 25 Jan 13
       
      Goes boldly against the Economist
  • The Economist boldly asserted that Abe's "scarily right-wing" cabinet is full of "radical nationalists," which "bodes ill for the region." According to this narrative, Tokyo will look to further contain China and North Korea and take a tougher diplomatic stance with South Korea and Russia.
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Aparna Pande: Pakistan's Endgame in Afghanistan? - 0 views

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    "have"
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China and Japan: Relations on the rocks | The Economist - 0 views

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      jason adkison on 30 Aug 12
       
      Nice, creative, title
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      jason adkison on 31 Aug 12
       
      thesis: The new Chinese leadership might be heading for a bumpy start due to tension with Japan as Chinese protest the contested islands of East China Sea, the media ignites the flame and, most importantly, the army fuels the fire.
  • Japan over ownership of the Senkaku islands (or Diaoyu islands, as the Chinese call them) in the East China Sea. This has escalated recently, with tit-for-tat landings on the uninhabited rocks by activists from both sides, as well as a close approach by a group
  • dispute with
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  • high-tech industries, for two months.
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      jason adkison on 30 Aug 12
       
      More background for the reader.
  • The rapid growth over the past couple of years of social media, especially Twitter-like microblogs, complicates the government’s efforts.
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      jason adkison on 30 Aug 12
       
      not only Japan-China relations, but the role of media could mount an unexpected reaction by the Chinese. Including economic sanctions.
  • over 50,000 respondents said no.
  • A poll on Sina Weibo, the most popular microblog service, asked whether there should be a boycott. More than half of
  • Tong Zeng, a veteran campaigner in Beijing on Japan-related causes, says the authorities fret too much. Most demonstrators are middle-class people, he says, who prefer to protest at weekends or on public holidays and eschew violence (he receives frequent calls from the police telling him to stay away altogether).
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      jason adkison on 30 Aug 12
       
      More tangible evidence that gives the COUNTER-ARGUMENT that the protestors are mild mannered middle class Chinese that the government should not fret.
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      jason adkison on 31 Aug 12
       
      Thesis: The new Chinese leadership might be heading for a bumpy start due to tension with Japan as Chinese protest the contested islands of East China Sea, the media ignites the flame and, most importantly, the army fuels the fire.
  • Relations
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Op-Ed Contributor - Diplomacy That Will Live in Infamy - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • The one who had the greater effect on Japan’s behavior was Theodore Roosevelt — whose efforts to end the war between Japan and Russia earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Roosevelt knew that Japan coveted the Korean Peninsula as a springboard to its Asian expansion.
  • “maintain the strictest neutrality,” but privately he wrote, “The sympathies of the United States are entirely on Japan’s side.”
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  • “All the Asiatic nations are now faced with the urgent necessity of adjusting themselves to the present age. Japan should be their natural leader in that process, and their protector during the transition stage, much as the United States assumed the leadership of the American continent many years ago, and by means of the Monroe Doctrine, preserved the Latin American nations from European interference. The future policy of Japan towards Asiatic countries should be similar to that of the United States towards their neighbors on the American continent.”
  • In a secret presidential cable to Tokyo, in July 1905, Roosevelt approved the Japanese annexation of Korea and agreed to an “understanding or alliance” among Japan, the United States and Britain “as if the United States were under treaty obligations.”
  • an unconstitutional act.
  • Anglo-American policy of imperialistic exploitation and to sacrifice themselves to the prosperity of the two nations.
  • “favorable opportunities were gained by opening the war with a sudden attack on the main enemy fleet.”
  • “I was thoroughly well pleased with the Japanese victory, for Japan is playing our game.”
  • No one in Oslo, or in the United States Congress, knew the truth then.
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    James Bradley's thesis on TR and links to WW2
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