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    May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  1. Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 pct

    Reuters
    By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that country....

    Tags: U.S. Congress, Afghanistan, Washington, DC, John Kerry, Barack Obama

    2. May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  2. Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent

    Reuters
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that country. The president asked for $79.4...

    Tags: U.S. Congress, White House, Wars and Interventions, Afghanistan, Washington, DC

    3. May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  3. Fearing Afghan instability, Russia mulls border troops

    Reuters
    KABUL (Reuters) - Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year, is considering deploying border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border, Moscow's envoy to Kabul told Reuters in an interview. Moscow,...

    Tags: HIV, AIDS, Hamid Karzai, U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War

    4. May 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested.
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....

    Tags: Pakistan, India, Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, Armed Forces, Armed Conflicts

    5. May 7, 2013 |Column| Tribune Media Services

  5. US weighs Syrian intervention, despite the consequences

    William Pfaff
    PARIS -- The present debate in the United States over making policy for a Middle East that has been profoundly changed by the events of the past three years unhappily echoes past policies that failed. They were intended to promote democracy and usually...

    Tags: Lebanon, Yemen, Benjamin Netanyahu, Pakistan, Israel

    6. May 7, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  6. Syrian intervention: Some questions

    WASHINGTON -- For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions:
    WASHINGTON -- For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions: Is human suffering the reason for the United States to act? That is the noblest and most altruistic of motives, and the estimated 70,...

    Tags: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Weaponry, Bashar Assad, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Central Intelligence Agency

    7. May 3, 2013 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  7. Fouad Ajami: Afghanistan shows Americans how not to fight wars

    In the unforgiving Afghan landscape, we have learned that you can't buy a warlord. You can only rent one. We owe this education to our man in Kabul, President Hamid Karzai. For more than a decade, it has been recently confirmed, U.S. dollars packed into...

    Tags: Elections, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Wars and Interventions, Afghanistan, George W. Bush

    8. May 1, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Getting less for our money in Afghanistan

    Among all the bizarre actions which have constituted U.S. foreign policy, one stands out today as particularly bizarre and counterproductive. Over the past 10 years, the CIA has given Afghan President Hamid Karzai bags full of money totaling millions of...

    Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, The New York Times

    9. Apr 27, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Global Voices: Author reflects on thwarted Afghanistan invasions

    “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”
    “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” Nowhere has that admonishment by 18th century statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke been ignored with such disastrous consequences as in Afghanistan. The imperial British...

    Tags: Pakistan, Hamid Karzai, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Government, Wars and Interventions

    10. Apr 26, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  10. New Bush Library, same old Bush record

    It was inspiring to see them side by side at Southern Methodist University in Dallas: Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. For their service to this country, we are indebted to each one of them.
    It was inspiring to see them side by side at Southern Methodist University in Dallas: Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. For their service to this country, we are indebted to each one of them. It'...

    Tags: Parties and Movements, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), George H.W. Bush, Finance, Executive Branch

    11. Apr 9, 2013 |Column| Tribune Media Services

  11. Anonymous murder from a safe distance

    William Pfaff
    PARIS -- War is war and murder is murder. The law draws the distinction. The American armed drone is a weapons system of war, not of policemen. And even if it were a police weapon (as it may, one fears, become in the future), the United States...

    Tags: U.S. Congress, Israel, Military Equipment, Religion and Belief, Central Intelligence Agency

    12. Apr 6, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghan provinces is unfinished work

    CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the U.S.-funded schoolhouse in this mountain-fringed northern town, Ghulam Nabi crouched in the mud and scooped up two rocks. He needed them, the school engineer explained, to scare off the building's only regular occupant: a stray dog.
    CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the U.S.-funded schoolhouse in this mountain-fringed northern town, Ghulam Nabi crouched in the mud and scooped up two rocks. He needed them, the school engineer explained, to scare off the building's...

    Tags: U.S. Department of State, Reconstruction, Pakistan, Hamid Karzai, Science and Technology

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