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The Atlantic
April 13, 2018
South of Fallujah's Route Fran were hundreds of insurgents who'd spent months digging trench lines, emplacing roadside bombs, barricading streets, training with their weapons, reading the Koran, and watching videos of suicide bombers to inspire them for the fight to come. North of Route Fran were theÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs (blog)
October 17, 2017
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces dealing with U.S. military policy in Afghanistan. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of experts for their take. As with previous surveys, we approached dozens of authorities with deep specialized expertise relevant toÃÂ ...
The Interpreter
September 27, 2017
The Trump administration's Afghanistan policy suggests that the United States will exert greater pressure on Pakistan, but no amount of US foreign .... early in the war in Afghanistan and then felt abandoned once the Bush administration shifted its focus from the war in Afghanistan to the invasion of Iraq.
U.S. News & World Report
September 14, 2017
... has faded from the headlines. The 16th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the unveiling of Trump's Afghanistan policy should trigger a renewed national conversation about America's role there. ... Today, the end seems no closer than it did during the Bush administration. Despite some gains, the AfghanÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
August 23, 2017
Any Afghanistan policy review is necessarily a Pakistan policy review. This is simply because, as many ... The George W. Bush administration tried strategic love and affection to overcome deep-felt Pakistani insecurities exacerbated by its episodic “abandonment” by the United States. They attempted toÃÂ ...
CNN International
August 23, 2017
i remember that india's foreign minister was in washington dc, and showed india's readiness to assist in afghanistan. this was within a month or two after 9/11 when bush administration was in busy in the early stage of afghan war. the pentagon then rebuffed india, and bush made pakistan a non-nato majorÃÂ ...
The Guardian
August 22, 2017
One headline on the far-right news site, which has been re-energized as the de facto mouthpiece of former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, was aimed at a familiar target, the president's national security adviser: “His McMaster's Voice: is Trump's Afghanistan policy that different from Obama's?”.
Vanity Fair
August 22, 2017
“IS TRUMP'S AFGHANISTAN POLICY THAT DIFFERENT FROM OBAMA'S?” blared another. By Tuesday morning, the tone was ... “It's a voice that appears to have been carried over from the George W. Bush administration, and even the Obama White House.” Accusing the president of flip-flopping, KassamÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 25, 2017
Last week, as the White House fell into an increasingly fractious debate over Afghanistan policy, three of Mr. Trump's senior aides met with a chemical executive, ... The lure of Afghanistan as a war-torn Klondike is well established: In 2006, the George W. Bush administration conducted aerial surveys of theÃÂ ...
Business Insider
July 15, 2017
Prince and Feinberg's inclusion in the administration's Afghanistan policy-proposal process is of a piece with Trump's advisers' efforts to bring a wider array ... The withdrawal date had been set by the Bush administration, but conservatives have criticized Obama for not making a deal with Baghdad to keepÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 11, 2017
Mr. Mattis listened politely but declined to include the outside strategies in a review of Afghanistan policy that he is leading along with the national security .... noting that Afghanistan confounded the neoconservatives in the George W. Bush administration and the progressives in the Obama administration.
Eurasia Review
August 11, 2017
The American war in Afghanistan has entered its 16th year. In the midst of continued externally enabled and resilient insurgency, AfghanistanÃÂ ...
POLITICO.eu
July 25, 2017
... has been dismissive of McMaster's views on Afghanistan policy. ... in the George W. Bush administration who remains in touch with the WhiteÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 25, 2017
... the George W. Bush administration conducted aerial surveys of the ... The White House's review of Afghanistan policy — led by DefenseÃÂ ...
The Wire
July 24, 2017
During the end of the Bush administration in 2008, a review of the impact of CSF funds – meant to finance counter-terrorism operations inÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
July 23, 2017
... CIA official who held the position during the Bush administration. ..... on Afghanistan policy, with him on one side and Bannon on the other.
American Thinker
July 20, 2017
Wanted: An Afghanistan Policy .... Before 9/11, the Bush administration negotiated briefly to prevent the Taliban from destroying the BamiyanÃÂ ...
The Intercept
July 17, 2017
One of the most under-discussed yet consequential changes in the American political landscape is the reunion between the Democratic PartyÃÂ ...
Business Insider
July 15, 2017
... in the administration's Afghanistan policy-proposal process is of a piece ... The withdrawal date had been set by the Bush administration, butÃÂ ...
The Nation.
July 14, 2017
... the outside strategies” in a review of Afghanistan policy that is being led in .... the former deputy secretary of state in the Bush administration.
Washington Examiner
July 12, 2017
... in the Bush administration's Corporate Fraud Task Force from 2003 to .... fully of the Afghanistan policy” and that the contractor idea is “simplyÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 10, 2017
... to include the outside strategies in a review of Afghanistan policy that .... the neoconservatives in the George W. Bush administration and theÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
March 20, 2017
During his February 28, 2017, address to a joint session of Congress, U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to “demolish and destroy” terroristÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
March 14, 2017
Multiple first-hand accounts attest to what Bob Woodward reported was "a vintage White House trick, one that offered the illusion of choice," where the military and civilian national security advisers reviewing Afghanistan policy, in the words of then ...
CNN
July 29, 2016
Then the George W. Bush administration came into office promising a period of relative isolationism and opposition to "nation building.
Consortium News
July 24, 2016
And his instincts at that time were good enough to see through the Bush administration's duplicity. And, with him now in the White House, surely .... In his Afghanistan policy speech, Obama mentioned training 11 times. To those of us with some gray in ...
RealClearPolitics
July 6, 2016
For a president who campaigned in 2008 to end wars while arguing the Bush administration "took its eye off" Afghanistan as the central battlefield against al-Qaeda, a sustained U.S.
Valley News
June 11, 2016
The second Afghanistan policy review in 2009 is an example. Numerous press leaks about the troop numbers Pentagon leaders were requesting ... Yet this was hardly the same kind of bitter struggle that plagued the George W. Bush administration, when the ...
Twin Falls Times-News
June 4, 2016
The second Afghanistan policy review in 2009 is an example. Numerous press leaks about the troop numbers Pentagon leaders were requesting caused frustrations in the White House that the military was "jamming" the president by raising the costs for himÃÂ ...
Stars and Stripes
June 3, 2016
The second Afghanistan policy review in 2009 is an example. Numerous press leaks about the troop numbers Pentagon leaders were requesting ... Yet this was hardly the same kind of bitter struggle that plagued the George W. Bush administration, when the ...
CNN
June 2, 2016
Then the George W. Bush administration came into office promising a period of relative isolationism and opposition to "nation building.
Daily News & Analysis
March 17, 2016
Yet the US remains hugely unpopular in Pakistan and its Afghanistan policy of relying on Pakistan has been a failure. Clearly America has its own priorities insofar as its relations with Pakistan are concerned especially in using ... Where the Bush ...
The Diplomat
March 9, 2016
Obama's Afghanistan policy has faced a lot criticism, particularly for his seeming haste in announcing the withdrawal of U.S.
Chandigarh Tribune
January 10, 2016
Khalilzad was the US Ambassadors to the UN, Afghanistan and Iran during the Bush Administration, while Dobbins was the Special US Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan under the current Obama Administration.
