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Die lange gepflegte Strategie der Verschleierung bricht nicht nur wegen der Tötung von Zivilisten, sondern auch wegen der sich zuspitzenden Lage in Nordafghanistan zusammen.

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Afghan refugees who fled the war-torn south have claimed they are so neglected by government in Kabul that their children are dying from hypothermia for want of the most basic supplies.

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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "President Barack Obama intends to announce next week that he will deploy tens of thousands of additional US troops to Afghanistan, according to numerous published reports citing unnamed administration officials, to fight an eight-year-old war that a majority of Americans do not support and numerous Democratic lawmakers say is no longer worth waging."

http://www.truthout.org/1124099

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Senator questions US troop buildup

Charleston Daily Mail

11/29/09

The leading Senate Democrat on military matters said Sunday that President Barack Obama’s anticipated plan for significantly expanding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan must show how those reinforcements will help increase the size of the Afghan security forces. Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that more Afghan army and police are central to succeeding in the 8-year-old war and more U.S. trainers and equipment can help meet that goal...

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Object lessons from the Afghan quagmire

Boston Globe
by James Carroll

11/30/09

So tomorrow night, we hear from the president at last. Reports have it that he will lay out his plan for Afghanistan — how to ‘finish the job,’ as he put it last week. The judiciousness with which he has gathered information is impressive, and the slow pace of his decision-making suggests a welcome level of prudence. … Some of us wish to hear tomorrow that American forces in Afghanistan will join those in Iraq in a phased, but steady journey home; that soon our nation’s servicemen and women will be out of harm’s way; and that the United States will protect its interests in the Middle East and South Asia more through diplomacy and development than through military power. Reports also have it, however, that President Obama will more likely lay out a different plan, arguing that the best way out of the war is through it...

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Protest against troop surge in Afghanistan
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=7142511


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

11/25/09

All in all, we face a depressing prospect: the Left brain-dead with Obama idolatry, the Right neoconized beyond redemption — and no one left to oppose a futile, draining, and horrifically destructive conflict, a war we cannot afford and which directly contravenes our real interests as a nation. No one, that is, except a clear majority of the American people, who, according to polls, think the battle for Afghanistan is not worth it. Here is a clear instance in which ordinary, everyday Americans are radically out of sync with partisan activists of both the Right and the Left - thus creating a huge opening for libertarians, particularly the campus arm of the movement...

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Limits of US power in Afghanistan

Hawaii Reporter
by Doug Bandow

11/24/09

U.S. President Barack Obama continues to consider a major military escalation in Afghanistan. Instead, the president should rethink Washington’s objective. The goal should be to minimize international terrorism, not build an Afghan state. Conflict in Afghanistan has raged for eight years, yet ‘victory’ looks ever more distant. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel declared that the goal is ‘a credible government and a legitimate process.’ Alas, neither exists...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Afghan Escalation 'Utter Insanity' and 'Morally Reprehensible'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/11/25-0

Get Ready for the Obama/GOP Alliance
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/25-0

Obama's Afghanistan Decision
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/25-8

A Call for the U.S. to End Its Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/25

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Afghanistan Is A "War Of National Resistance": Former CIA Agent

By Robert Baer

"The people that want their country liberated from the West have nothing to do with Al Qaeda," Baer says. "They simply want us gone because we're foreigners, and they're rallying behind the Taliban because the Taliban are experienced, effective fighters."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24061.htm



Are Some Democrats Getting a Spine?

Editors Pick

Some Democrats are proposing, in the same way that we have to find the money for social programs, that if we want to continue and or escalate the war, we should find the money to pay for war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24060.htm



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President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to "finish the job" in Afghanistan and promised to unveil a decision soon on sending tens of thousands more US troops to battle Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

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Top Democrat warns Afghanistan will bankrupt domestic programs

Threatens war surtax if Obama sends more troops.
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Obama Plans to Send 34,000 More Troops to Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/24

Afghan Army Turnover Rate Threatens US War Plans
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/24-11

Obama's 'Finish the Job' Talk Sets Stage for Afghan Troop Surge
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/25-4



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Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam and Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/23-3

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Realities Collide at Halifax "War Conference"

Anthony Fenton, Inter Press Service: "While the world's top military elites gather inside a fortified hotel to discuss NATO's future, protesters question the organization's legitimacy, secrecy, and the lack of democratic debate about the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan."

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Eight years after a US-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said.

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There was a fear that graphic reports, even in censored form, could be uncovered by opposition parties and the media through access-to-information laws, leading to revelations that would further erode already-tenuous public support.

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Ein Bericht der Hilfsorganisation Oxfam bemüht sich um Ansichten und Stimmen der "normalen Afghanen".

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