Word: nato
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...Presidents - Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari - lead governments teetering on the edge of chaos. And the war is going badly on both sides of the border. The Pakistani Taliban has taken over the Swat Valley, a mere 100 miles (160 km) from Islamabad, and has wreaked havoc with NATO supply lines into Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass; the Afghan Taliban staged a dramatic terrorist attack in downtown Kabul. In his first major decision as Commander in Chief, Obama promised an additional 17,000 troops for Afghanistan, but he still hasn't fully defined the U.S. goal there, even though...
...many, these might be trivial matters with few implications for the long-term transatlantic relationship. But in Europe they are parsed with dutiful solemnity. Hence the significance of Clinton's visit to Brussels today to meet European Union and NATO ministers and officials. "Europeans never miss an opportunity to read bad omens in a new President," says Daniel Korski, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. "But if there is one word for Obama's foreign policy, it is engagement. He will want European help in dealing with the financial crisis. He will become more involved...
...move also threatens our new alliances with Poland and the Czech Republic, two of our strongest backers in the NATO organization. Moreover, the majority of Poles and Czechs oppose the plan, which would needlessly put them at risk of armed conflict with Russia. Last year, President Medvedev announced that Russia would be relocating several SS-26 “Iskander” missiles to Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia’s small exclave of territory on the Baltic coast that borders NATO members Poland and Lithuania. While these plans have been temporarily put on hold, the Russian threat should be taken...
...Bajraktari, a student who is working with the consulate to analyze the challenges of long-term international commitment to Afghanistan, said that the consulate took them to London and Brussels and arranged 22 meetings with international representatives at the NATO headquarters...
...other militants. In fact, backed by the army, Nazir and his men had routed some 250 al-Qaeda-aligned Uzbek militants from Wana, in South Waziristan, in 2004. But despite their nonaggression pact with the Pakistani military, both men continued to mount cross-border attacks on U.S. and NATO troops. The fact that they became targets of U.S. drone attacks prompted critics in Pakistan to suggest that the Musharraf government was double-dealing in some of its alliances in the tribal areas...