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“We wanted a clear message from Obama that the U.S. will continue to support democracy in Afghanistan,” Fawzia Koofi, a lawmaker and human-rights activist, said this month. “It’s the only alternative to Talibanization.”
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General Stanley McChrystal , commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, has been summoned to Washington to explain disparaging remarks he made in a magazine interview.
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The U.S. has made “very preliminary” contacts with Afghan Taliban guerrillas, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, after Afghanistan’s president said he is looking to Pakistan to mediate peace talks.
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Late last year President Barack Obama announced his plan to send an additional 30,000 American troops to fight in Afghanistan. In “ Obama’s Wars ” (I don’t know why the second word is plural), Bob Woodward shows how he and his advisers arrived at that decision.
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General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, apologized today for an interview in which he said he felt “betrayed” by his diplomatic partner in Kabul, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, Associated Press reported.
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By Ernesto Londoño June 22 (Washington Post) -- KABUL -- The top U.S. general in Afghanistan apologized Tuesday for a magazine article that portrays him and his staff as flippant and dismissive of top Obama administration officials involved in Afghanistan policy. The profile in Rolling Stone magazine, titled the "Runaway General," is certain to increase tension between the White House and Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It also raises fresh questions about the judgment and leadership style of the commander Obama appointed last year in an effort to turn around a worsening conflict. McChrystal and some of his senior advisors are quoted criticizing top administration officials, at times in starkly derisive terms. An anonymous McChrystal aide is quoted calling national security adviser James Jones a "clown." Referring to Richard Holbrooke, Obama's senior envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, one McChrystal aide is quoted saying:
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U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with Afghan President Hamid Karzai today during an hour-long video teleconference, discussing the need to “work together to keep the pressure on the Taliban and to build Afghan capacity,” according to a White House statement.
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham , a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was “stunned” at a report that Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants the U.S. to scale back operations in his country.
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President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan and promised them unstinting support for their mission as he prepares to review his strategy for the war, which is now in its 10th year.
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President Barack Obama and Afghan leader Hamid Karzai meet this week looking for ways to resolve disputes over corruption and possible terms for peace as the U.S.-led military campaign moves into the Taliban’s heartland.
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