Six U.S. soldiers were killed, along with one Afghan soldier, during a helicopter air assault in eastern Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border, coalition officials said.
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Iphones, Ipads and Android phones with new applications will soon be aiding the U.S. military on the battlefield.
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Gallup’s finding that Americans approve of “the military action against Libya by the United States and other countries” by a 47% to 37% margin, referenced in Byron York's Examiner column today, reminds me of an old joke. The Teamsters Union business agent is in the hospital.
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One thing on which there seems to have been agreement during the month-long debate about how the United States should respond to the uprisings in the Middle East, and in particular to the anti-Gaddafi rebels in Libya, is that we must not act unilaterally.
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Jihadist terrorism must be confronted and killed and that means the U.S. must be in Afghanistan, which for decades has, along with Pakistan, provided safe haven for the Osama bin Ladens of the world. Billions of U.S. dollars and the blood of thousands of young American men and women have been spent to that end in Afghanistan.
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President Obama is expected to continue revising his annual State of the Union speech until right before he delivers it -- and what he leaves out is likely to reveal as much as what he includes.
Obama will "spend most of his time talking about the economy," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, and "talking about the challenges that we face both in the short term in terms of doing whatever we can to help create jobs ...
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By:
Dale McFeatters
01/09/11 10:00 PM
In something of a surprise move, the Pentagon is sending an additional 1,400 Marines to Afghanistan, bringing the total U.S. personnel there to about 97,000. In addition, U.S. commanders are said to be changing the mix of forces in favor of more combat units and fewer logistical units.
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Afghanistan's intelligence agencies said today that two major Taliban attacks in Kabul have been averted in the past 20 days. The first was a plot to assassinate the country's vice president and the second was a plan to set off car bombs at President Hamid Karzai's palace in downtown Kabul.
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President Obama's mixed self-assessment of the war in Afghanistan drew a muted response Thursday despite the president's warning that the costly, unpopular conflict will go on until 2014. "In many places, the gains we've made are still fragile and reversible," Obama said. "But there is no question we are clearing more areas from Taliban control and more Afghans are reclaiming their communities."
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Reading"Masters and Commanders," Andrew Roberts' magnificent account of British and American leaders in World War II, I was struck by how many of them, working prodigious hours and under great strain, were struck down by heart attacks while in their 60s. This doesn't happen anymore, I thought, with the blood pressure and cholesterol medicines many of us routinely take.
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