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Topic: Afghanistan (page 37)

President Obama takes a picture with cadets after speaking about the war in Afghanistan at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Tuesday.

Slobodan Lekic, Deborah Seward

The commendably missing claim from Obama's speech

Glenn Greenwald

President Barack Obama speaks about the war in Afghanistan at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Associated Press)

What (sort of) worked in Iraq won't in Afghanistan

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U.S. Marines with 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion 5th Marines, run for new cover after it appeared the Taliban was zeroing in on their position, in Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. The fight, which began when Taliban fighters opened up with assault rifles and machine guns on a Marine patrol over open ground, lasted around 2 hours, and ended with no casualties among the Marines and an unknown number of Taliban wounded or killed. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (Associated Press)

President Barack Obama speaks about the war in Afghanistan at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Associated Press)

Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment (Airborne), based at Fort Richardson, Alaska, fire a 120mm mortar during a fire mission at the combat outpost Zerok in East Paktika province in Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh) (Associated Press)

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Afghanistan President, Hamid Karzai, addresses the media on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, at the Presidential Palace mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. In his message to mark the major Muslim holiday of Eid, Karzai said that "all our ... brothers who stand armed against their country," including the militant Islamic faction Hezb-e-Islami led by warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, should help ensure stability and development in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi) (Mustafa Quraishi)

There's not much government left to shore up

Georgia state National Guardsman, Sgt. Scott A. Millican, right, from Statesboro, GA., and Air Force Techincal Sgt. Phllip M. Huaser from Salina, Kansas, both part of the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device(CIED) route clearance unit look up as US fighter jets fly overhead near the town of Maidan Shar, Wardak province, Afghanistan Monday Nov. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) (AP)

We've heard this before

Glenn Greenwald

(Reuters)

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Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) speaks at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 27, 2008. U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is expected to accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention on August 28. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) (Reuters)

Glenn Greenwald

Obama to announce Afghanistan plans next week

David Broder, left, and Jackson Diehl

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U.S. soldiers walk on a dirt road while on patrol near the town of Pul-i-alam, Logar province, Afghanistan. Afghanistan scored lowest on the Corruption Perceptions Index 2013. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Pratap Chatterjee

Ben Feller, Anne Gearan

Police officials survey the site of a suicide bomb explosion in Charsadda, located about 20 km (12 miles) northeast of Peshawar November 10, 2009. Pakistani Taliban militants vowed to fight a tough, protracted guerrilla war against the army on Tuesday as a suicide car-bomber killed up to 20 people in a northwestern town, police said. A suicide bomber in a car set off explosives in a square in the centre of Charsadda killing up to 20 people and wounding at least 30, town police chief Riaz Khan said. REUTERS/K Parvez (PAKISTAN CONFLICT) (Reuters)

Bombing in Pakistan kills 34, exposes local rifts

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Report: Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan

Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah speaks with his supporters in Kabul Nov. 1.

Abdullah withdraws from Afghan presidential race

Heidi Vogt, Rahim Faiez

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