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		<title>Pakistan and the Endgame in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://ismica.com/2011/11/pakistan-endgame-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AMICUS
The Pakistan Spectator
A Candid Blog
After completing the review of America’s ongoing ‘war on terror’ and related situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, President Barack Obama addressed the nation from West Point, New York, on December 1, 2009, to announce:   “.. as Commander-in-Chief, I have determined to send an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan and US ‘AF-PAK’ Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his recently published book Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward reports that while discussing the Afghanistan situation with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on October 26, 2009, President Obama said, “I’m not doing 10 years . . . I am not doing long term nation-building. I am not spending a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bharat Clueless in Afghanistan and confused about Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://ismica.com/2010/02/bharat-clueless-afghanistan-confused-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mohammed Yousuf, (Advocate)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 9, 2010 
Seema Mustafa

UPA was acting under US pressure as it moved from the tough “we will not talk unless Pakistan contains terrorism” to the pliant “let us talk” with a suddenness that left the strategic establishment stunned.
India has been asking for the arrest and trial of Hafiz Sayeed for his involvement in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. offers new role for Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has offered Pakistan an expanded strategic partnership, including additional military and economic cooperation, while warning with unusual bluntness that its use of insurgent groups to pursue policy goals &#8220;cannot continue.&#8221;
The offer, including an effort to help reduce tensions between Pakistan and India, was contained in a two-page letter delivered to President Asif Ali Zardari this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama facing tough selling job on Afghan policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Barack Obama has begun one of the toughest sales jobs of his presidency, launching the much-awaited rollout of his new Afghan war strategy by informing top military and civilian advisers in Washington and Kabul and telephoning key allies around the globe.
Obama is outlining his decision to an increasingly skeptical U.S. public on Tuesday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Report: Bin Laden was &#8216;Within Grasp&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WASHINGTON) — Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.
The report asserts that the failure to kill or capture bin Laden at his most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the Revisionists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Kerry testifies against the Vietnam War before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1979.
By Sen. John Kerry &#124; NEWSWEEK
We must dispense with a dangerous myth. In an effort to pressure the president to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan, armchair commanders have dusted off the old canard that &#8220;we could have won in Vietnam [...]]]></description>
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