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Obama's Afghanistan Strategy Draws Barbs From All Sides

(Dec. 1) - President Barack Obama's speech formally announcing his plans for the war in Afghanistan generated an avalanche of opinion, much of it critical of one aspect or another of his strategy for winning the war. As a service to readers, Sphere asked experts from different political perspectives to weigh in on the...

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05/23/11 Obama Troop Surge Decision Ignored Pak-Taliban Ties Source: LA Progressive The unilateral U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden created a spike in mutual recriminations between U.S. and Pakistani politicians, but their fundamental conflict of interest over Afghanistan was already driving the two countries toward serious confrontation.
05/22/11 Obama Troop Surge Decision Ignored Pak-Taliban Ties Source: IPS Inter Press Service administration and Pakistan was the decision by Obama to escalate the war in Afghanistan in 2009, despite the knowledge that Pakistan was committed to supporting the Taliban insurgents as a strategic policy in its conflict with India.