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...International Security Assistance Force. Over the past few weeks President Karzai has vigorously protested such events of civilian casualties - on July 6 NATO forces bombed a wedding party in southeastern Afghanistan by mistake, killing 47. But today's lunch was neither the time nor the place to focus on civilian casualties, says Hamidzada, pointing out that the Senator's visit was more of an introduction to the country, and that such specific policy issues should be reserved for U.S. leaders. "It is Afghan tradition to welcome visitors and focus on the positive," he said...
...didn't see it as criticism per se, because there is a degree of realism in that," says Hamidzada. "We are facing a significant threat of terrorism, and the reality is we are spending resources on that. Our hope is to minimize threat of terrorism so that we can focus on reconstruction and development of Afghanistan...
...According to the McCain campaign, the debate should focus on which candidate has had the judgment to achieve the recent security gains in Iraq, and which candidate will leave Iraq in a more stable condition. According to the Obama crowd, the argument should focus on which candidate had the right judgment about the initial invasion of Iraq and which candidate will pull out American troops sooner...
...says, the best way to answer that question is by narrowing the focus of a vaccine study to see if it can do one thing: reduce the viral load in someone infected with HIV. If a vaccine can do that, it's worth looking at more closely to figure out how it does it. "Scaling back the trial to look at a single endpoint is a concept that a number of us have championed," agrees Wayne Koff, senior vice president of research and development at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative...
...Obama has blamed a large part of Afghanistan's deterioration on the Bush Administration's focus on Iraq. "In fact - as should have been apparent to President Bush and Senator McCain - the central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was," he said in a major foreign policy speech on July 15th. "It is unacceptable that almost seven years after nearly 3,000 Americans were killed on our soil, the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 are still at large. If another attack on our homeland comes, it will likely come from the same region...