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Topic: Afghanistan (page 36)

Kim Gamel, Amir Shah

Obama offers thin gruel on Middle East

Afghanistan poll shows support for U.S.

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Gates, Bush holdover, will stay on

Selcan Hacaoglu

Ominous signs

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Clockwise, top left: US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) addresses senate health care legislation at the US Capitol in Washington; a US chopper in Iraq's Green Zone; Holiday travelers wait in line to go through security at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec. 26; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

Spending $57,077.60 per minute in Afghanistan

Glenn Greenwald

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Glenn Greenwald

U.S. soldiers patrol through the heart of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. Many Afghans were still sleeping when President Barack Obama announced he was sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to the war. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said NATO and U.S. forces would hand over responsibility for securing the country to the Afghan security forces "as rapidly as conditions allow." Obama said if conditions are right, U.S. troops could begin leaving Afghanistan in 18 months. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (Associated Press)

Obama gets real

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The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal speaks to the military at US base Kandahar Airfield, Kandahar, Afghanistan, December 2, 2009. The first of 30,000 new U.S. troops will arrive in Afghanistan in two to three weeks, top U.S. officials said on Wednesday, even as they made clear plans to start bringing the soldiers home in 18 months could slip. REUTERS/Mustafa Quraishi/Pool (AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT MILITARY POLITICS) (Reuters)

Pakistan is circumspect on bin Laden, Afghanistan

The 467th Medical Detachment based out of Madison, WI, prepare to head to the airport for their deployment to Afghanistan at Fort Hood, Texas, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009.

Do Obama officials know his plan?

Glenn Greenwald

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Small majority favors Obama's Afghanistan plan

Hayden: "Time to strip Obama sticker off my car"

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