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Taliban defeat will take years
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Susan Johnson
Uh, oh! I wonder when the anti-Iraq crowd will start to agitate that we get out of Afghanistan? It will take “a few years” to defeat the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, the top US general in the country said Tuesday, reiterating US support for the fight. Major General David Rodriguez, head of the US-led coalition…
How do we know that the surge is working?
By
Susan Johnson
The debate in Congress has changed: Even as the Iraq war promises to be a defining issue of the fall presidential campaign, the debate on Capitol Hill has lost steam. Most congressional Democrats have been walking a rhetorical tightrope, praising the reduction in violence while contending it hasn’t improved Iraq’s long-term outlook. Unlike a year…
Amtrak to beef up security
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Susan Johnson
So, I wonder what this is about: Amtrak passengers will be subjected to random screening of their carry-on bags as part of a new security initiative that will include armed officers and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains, an Amtrak spokeswoman said Monday. Details of the new effort, which were first reported by The Associated…
You need to put in a email address when you leave a comment
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Susan Johnson
Or it will junk your comment and it won’t publish. Feel free to put in a fake email address but it probably should be in the form of an email address. And if you put in an embedded link, your comment gets lost in the ether (I know, it happened to me). If you just…
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