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Karzai Criticisms Lead to Tensions With Hagel - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "President Hamid Karzai leveled particularly harsh accusations against the United States on Sunday, suggesting that the Americans and the Taliban had a common goal in destabilizing his country. "
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Karzai Family Moves to Protect Its Privilege - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "With the end in sight for Hamid Karzai's days in office as Afghanistan's president, members of his family are trying to protect their status, weighing how to hold on to power while secretly fighting among themselves for control of the fortune they have amassed in the last decade. "
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U.S. Considers Faster Pullout in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Increasingly frustrated by his dealings with President Hamid Karzai, President Obama is giving serious consideration to speeding up the withdrawal of United States forces from Afghanistan and to a "zero option" that would leave no American troops there after next year, according to American and European officials. "
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Militants Attack U.S. Embassy in Kabul - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "In the most direct assault since the American Embassy opened here nine years ago, heavily armed insurgents wearing suicide vests put the embassy and the nearby NATO headquarters in their cross hairs, showing the Taliban's ability to enter even the most heavily fortified districts in the country. "
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Obama to Announce Timetable for Troop Withdrawals From Afghan Surge - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "President Obama plans to announce his decision on the scale and pace of troop withdrawals from Afghanistan in a speech from the White House at 8 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday evening. "
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C.I.A. Delivers Cash to Afghan Leader's Office - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The Great American Folly Machine:
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Bernard Bajolet, Leaving Afghanistan, Has His Say - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    At last, a whiff of diplomatic candor about the Western failure in Afghanistan that I covered in "Funding the Enemy."
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Obama to Announce Troops' Return - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "President Obama's decision to remove 34,000 American troops in Afghanistan by this time next year represents a careful balancing of political interests and military requirements. "
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As U.S. Withdraws Troops, Fears That Afghan Aid Will Dry Up - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    ""I've often worried that the lesson from Iraq and Afghanistan - and especially Afghanistan - is that we don't know how to do foreign aid, and therefore we shouldn't continue to provide aid at the levels we have been," said Ms. Wadhams of the Center for American Progress. "
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    I detailed aid failure in "Funding the Enemy."
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U.S. Officials Debate Speeding Up Afghan Pullout - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "The Obama administration is discussing whether to reduce American forces in Afghanistan by at least an additional 20,000 troops by 2013, reflecting a growing belief within the White House that the mission there has now reached the point of diminishing returns. "
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Obama's Journey to Reshape Afghan War - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    "It was just one brief exchange about Afghanistan with an aide late in 2009, but it suggests how President Obama's thinking about what he once called "a war of necessity" began to radically change less than a year after he took up residency in the White House. "
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U.S. and Afghanistan Agree on Detainee Transfer - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Seeking to break an impasse on a broader strategic arrangement, the United States agreed on Friday to greatly accelerate its handover of detainees to Afghan government control on but will retain a veto over which ones can be released, American officials said. "
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Corruption Remains Intractable in Afghanistan Under Karzai Government - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    " As Americans pull back from Afghanistan, Kabul Bank's Mr. Farnood exemplifies how the United States is leaving behind a problem it underwrote over the past decade with tens of billions of dollars of aid and logistical support: a narrow business and political elite defined by its corruption, and despised by most Afghans for it. "
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Steeper Pullout Is Raised as Option for Afghanistan - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "President Obama's national security team is contemplating troop reductions in Afghanistan that would be steeper than those discussed even a few weeks ago, with some officials arguing that such a change is justified by the rising cost of the war and the death of Osama bin Laden, which they called new "strategic considerations." "
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Seattle oysters at Walrus & Carpenter--the best! - 0 views

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    "An oyster platter at the Walrus and the Carpenter, a restaurant in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, which specializes in locally harvested seafood"
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Pakistan's Spy Agency behind Kabul US Embassy Attack - 0 views

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    "The nation's top military official said Thursday that Pakistan's spy agency played a direct role in supporting the insurgents who carried out the deadly attack on the American Embassy in Kabul last week. "
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Mayors Call for Quick End to Wars, Money needed at Home - 0 views

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    "The resolution that the United States Conference of Mayors passed on Monday calling on President Obama and Congress to "speed up the ending" of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was not nearly as strong as the one it passed 40 years ago, calling on President Richard M. Nixon to withdraw all American troops from Vietnam within six months. "
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NY Times: Kabul Attack - 0 views

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    "Mr. Hossaini was photographing young Afghan Shiites during a procession for Ashura, which marks the death of Shiite Islam's holiest martyr. Some of those he had photographed recognized him. The 30-year-old photographer, who is Shiite himself, remembered seeing some of them smile. Then, he heard a large explosion.
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Is counterinsurgency dead? - 0 views

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    West Point faculty debate whether winning-hearts-and-minds strategy is dead.
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