U.S. Warns Karzai It May Leave No Troops In Afghanistan
November 25th, 2013Washington (AFP) – U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice Monday told Afghan President Hamid Karzai Washington could not wait until after the 2014 Afghan elections to sign a security pact and, without a deal, may have to plan to leave no troops behind next year. “Without a prompt signature, the U.S. would have no choice
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Obama’s Season Of Challenge
June 6th, 2013WASHINGTON — What is President Obama fighting for? What is the point of his second term? His ability to answer these questions in a compelling way will have more to do with his success or failure than all the Republican congressional investigations combined. Up to now, support for the president has held up in the
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WATCH: President Obama Appoints Susan Rice And Nominates Samantha Power
June 5th, 2013President Obama defied Republican critics Wednesday by naming UN Ambassador Susan Rice as his new national security advisor. Rice recently faced a furious flood of criticism from congressional Republicans, who claimed she was intentionally trying to mislead the country over the attack on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya in 2012. Offering the best intelligence available
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Sorry, Republicans — Nobody’s Getting Impeached
May 22nd, 2013Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when every jackleg news organization in Washington — that is, virtually all of them — was feeding out of Kenneth Starr’s soft little hand like a Shetland pony. Having recently left the country for a few weeks of media deprivation therapy, I returned to find
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Benghazi Hearings: Capitol Hill’s Angry Little Men Keep Making Hillary Bigger
January 24th, 2013Anyone truly concerned about the safety of U.S. diplomatic personnel abroad – and that should include every American – has fresh reason for fury over last September’s disaster in Benghazi and its aftermath. But the target of public anger should not be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose conduct has been exemplary ever since the
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