Word: nato
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...troops in the first three weeks of July - more than in any month since the U.S. invaded in October 2001. The Afghan government is salted with corruption, while its prisons are hellholes that turn citizens against their government. Pakistan remains a safe haven for launching attacks against U.S. and NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan, and despite the Obama Administration's strenuous efforts at persuasion, Islamabad shows little interest in extending its campaign against domestic extremism into a fight against the Afghan insurgency...
Biden's trip to Ukraine and Georgia was designed to balance Obama's Moscow visit. Washington wanted to reassure Russia's two neighbors that the U.S. has not forgotten them or their bids to join NATO without unduly annoying Moscow. (Read "Obama Treads Lightly on Democracy in Russia...
...balancing act was always going to be a tough one. Moscow has long opposed NATO expansion and what it views as U.S. interference in its traditional backyard. So when, on the eve of Biden's visit, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili reportedly said he was negotiating a new arms deal with the U.S., Moscow grumbled. "We will continue to prevent the rearming of Saakashvili's regime and will take concrete measures against this," said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin. "We have deep worries regarding the activity of the Georgian leadership over remilitarizing its country, which several states are responding...
...NATO and U.S. forces have a new commander, General Stanley McChrystal. What are the first three or four things he needs to do to address this problem? I think the first step has to be identifying how the money and drugs flow, studying the maps and looking at the routes that narcotics take out of the country, identifying where the drug labs are, identifying the major players. This is going to require a lot more intelligence-sharing than has been going...
General McChrystal's other big priority is going to be helping establish security in border areas to create the correct environment for a bottom-up stability campaign at the village level. U.S. and NATO military officials, working alongside civilian officials, can work with communities to push these people out. There is no point in trying to reconcile with the Taliban - and when I say the Taliban, I mean the leadership of the Taliban. We're never going to beat the Taliban and al-Qaeda by trying to shoot them all. However, I do believe that there are many tribes living...