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With Gadhafi dead, new troubles for Libya

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Oct. 22 - International human-rights groups called Friday for an investigation into the death of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, as gory new videos showed him being spat at and punched by revolutionaries and as skepticism mounted about official claims that he was shot in crossfire after being captured.

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Foreign policy: intervention after Libya

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Aug. 24 (Opinion) - It can be said that in narrow military terms the west's action over Libya has worked, and that politically there was justification It is too early to claim that the Nato intervention in Libya has been a success in the full meaning of that word. It will be weeks before we have a sense of where Libya is heading, months before there is any certainty about its future, and years before we can properly assess the impact of the decision to use force to aid the rebels. But it can now reasonably be said that in narrow military terms it worked, and that politically there was some retrospective justification for its advocates as the crowds poured into the streets of Tripoli to welcome the rebel convoys earlier this week. The argument that we had foolishly gone in on one side in a civil war must be weakened by such scenes, which suggest that the picture of a majority wishing to see the back of Gaddafi is closer to the truth than the alternative picture of a people more or less evenly divided between ...

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Obama Fails to Justify the Legality of War in Libya

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Conor Friedersdorf - Jun. 17 (Opinion) - Is the U.S. at war in Libya, putting President Obama in violation of the War Powers Resolution? Or does our mission against Muammar Qaddafi fall short of triggering the statute that requires withdrawal within 60 to 90 days unless Congress approves military action? The White House took up those questions Wednesday in response to House Speaker John Boehner, who demanded to know why we're still involved in the NATO-led conflict despite those bygone deadlines.

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Libya and the War Powers Act

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Jun. 17 (Editorial) - It would be hugely costly — for this country’s credibility, for the future of NATO and for the people of Libya — if Congress were to force President Obama to abandon military operations over Libya. However, Mr. Obama cannot evade his responsibility, under the War Powers Act, to seek Congressional approval to continue the operation.

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Pakistan did its part

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Asif Ali Zardari - May. 03 (Opinion) - Together, our nations have suffered and sacrificed. We have fought bravely and with passion and commitment. Ultimately we will prevail. For, in the words of my martyred wife Benazir Bhutto, “truth, justice and the forces of history are on our side.”

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The Libyan mission is creeping, no doubt

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Simon Tisdall - Apr. 19 (Opinion) - With Britain sending a 'military liaison advisory team' to Libya, how many more boots on the ground will follow?

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What is the purpose of NATO?

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Ron Smith - Mar. 31 (Opinion) - It was said upon the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in April of 1949 that NATO's purpose was three-fold: to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down.

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Hugs From Libyans

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Mar. 24 (Opinion) - This may be a first for the Arab world: An American airman who bailed out over Libya was rescued from his hiding place in a sheep pen by villagers who hugged him, served him juice and thanked him effusively for bombing their country.

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At War in Libya

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 22 (Editorial) - The allied attacks on Libya were perhaps the only hope of keeping more people from being slaughtered. But there is much reason for concern.

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A Very Liberal Intervention

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ross Douthat - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - A war that’s right out of the Clinton playbook, with many of the same perils.

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The Real Airport Security Debate: Would You Rather Be Groped or Zapped?

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Politics Daily - By David Corn - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - It's a no-brainer: I'd rather accept a demeaning squeeze than a dose of radiation -- before being allowed to proceed to friendly skies. In either case, I'll be thinking: The terrorists won.

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Petraeus rewrites the playbook in Afghanistan

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David Ignatius - Oct. 19 (Opinion) - Gen. David Petraeus appears to be making a strategic pivot in Afghanistan, supplementing his primary mission as military commander with the "warrior-statesman" role he had in Iraq, where he was able to fuse the political and military elements of the campaign.

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Reclaiming the Imagination

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Timothy Williamson - Aug. 15 (Comment) - on further reflection imaining turns out to be much more reality-directed than the stereotype implies......knowledge, far from limiting imagination enables it to serve its central function.

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The Ghosts of Gandamak

Sun, 09 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By William Dalrymple - May. 09 (Opinion) - What NATO faces in Afghanistan now increasingly parallels what the British faced 170 years ago.

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India and Pakistan (Barely) Talk

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Feb. 27 (Editorial) - Low expectations for the first talks between India and Pakistan since the 2008 bombings in Mumbai were disappointingly on the mark. After the two sides met Thursday, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao of India said that she agreed only to “keep in touch” with her Pakistani counterpart, Salman Bashir. No future discussions were scheduled.

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France Plan To Sell Warship To Russia Fuels Concern

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:55:05 -0800

NPR - Feb. 24 - France is on the verge of selling a warship to Russia. If the deal goes through, it would be the first time a NATO country has sold advanced military equipment to Russia. The possible sale of the Mistral-class ship, which is designed to anchor in

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What is happening in Pakistan?

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Hindu - By K. Subrahmanyam - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - There are underlying worries whether in exchange for cooperation in fighting the Afghan Taliban and the other terrorist groups Pakistan would have obtained U.S. and NATO promises to get their mediatory intervention on the Kashmir issue. First came the

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Op-Ed Contributor: Empty Skies Over Afghanistan

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Lara M. Dadkhah - Feb. 18 (Opinion) - American and NATO military leaders — worried that the key to winning the war is the Afghan population’s goodwill — have largely relinquished the strategic advantage of air dominance.

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Handing over to Afghanistan

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Michael Williams - Feb. 15 (Opinion) - Operation Moshtarak offers some hope to the embattled public, but police corruption could undermine the project For nine years the international community has blundered its way through Afghanistan . In a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, the Bush administration invaded the country using a lot of bombs and few US troops, relying instead on Afghan militia forces to oust the Taliban. This left a massive gap where peacekeeping forces should have been. Rather than pursuing policies to secure the population, the US, under Operation Enduring Freedom , went after "terrorists" – the remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan. Nato was supposedly there to provide security to the population, but the never-ending rotation of International Security ...

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Fighting for Afghanistan's women

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Heather Harvey - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - It is not the main reason for troop presence, but Nato and the US must ensure Afghan women?s rights aren?t traded for politics In case we?re tempted to think otherwise, the government has taken to repeating the mantra that Afghanistan is a war for our own security about once every half an hour. Defence secretary Bob Ainsworth insists that the dreadful attrition rate in Helmand is about . For the doubters and those quick to cry "mission creep", the implication is clear: it?s not about curbing the heroin trade, it?s not about defending women?s rights and it?s not about having a neo-imperialist military boot print in the unstable Af-Pak zone. It?s not even about defeating the Taliban for its own sake. Beating the Taliban is deemed important ...

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Remember Afghanistan, Comrade?

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Anna Matveeva - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - Twenty years ago, massive casualties forced Gorbachev into a troop withdrawal. The parallels with today are haunting Do you remember Afghanistan, Comrade? This was a Soviet Afghan war song of the 1980s. "Do you, comrade, remember Afghanistan? Glows of fires, Muslim cries?" I am sure British soldiers have their own songs, it?s just I don?t know them. God bless them anyhow. The (1979-1989) is something nobody in Russia likes to recall now unless they have to. The 10-year intervention cost around 15,000 Soviet lives, a huge number compared with the 204 . What were the attitudes towards casualties in the society then? First, the war was seen as senseless. Nobody could comprehend what Soviet troops were doing in Afghanistan. The official ...

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