Word: nato
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...realize they have crossed the border," he told reporters before a session with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. But the disquieting clash comes as U.S. forces have stepped up attacks on safe havens just inside Pakistan that have been used by militants to stage attacks on U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. Just this week, Pakistan's army claimed to have found the wreckage of a U.S drone on its soil (the U.S., in another case of conflicting maps, said the drone had crashed in Afghanistan); militants blew up the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, killing 53; and the independent Army...
...Still, the McCain-Palin ticket has used this conflict to step up its vitriolic rhetoric. Mr. McCain wants to expel Russia from the G8 and reconsider further WTO accession talks. And both he and Ms. Palin are committed to expanding NATO to include Georgia and Ukraine. In her interview, Palin stated that the Rose Revolution in Georgia and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine “have showed us that those democratic nations, I believe, should be in NATO...
...operations inside Pakistan, seeing them as essential to reversing the security decline in Afghanistan where, according to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, "time is running out." Pakistan has failed to wipe out the sanctuaries in the tribal areas from which Taliban insurgents routinely stage attacks on NATO forces across the border. And after allegedly discovering evidence of the Inter Services Intelligence agency's abiding ties to militant networks, Washington no longer trusts the Pakistani military with its operational intelligence. The U.S. also believes that the Pakistani army, equipped for conventional warfare against India, is ill suited...
...dubbed "Pakistan's 9/11." The shock and anger provoked by the attack did spark a long-overdue debate on the increasingly lethal threat posed by al-Qaeda and Taliban militants sheltering in the mountainous tribal areas along the Afghan border and in the scenic Swat valley - not just to NATO forces in Afghanistan but also to Pakistan itself...
...Afghanistan, where the number of terrorist attacks and support for the Taliban insurgency have been rising largely under the radar of a western media focused on elections and the war in Iraq. The U.S. response has been a sloppy counterinsurgency; according to a recent United Nations report, U.S. and NATO forces have been responsible for 577 Afghan civilian deaths this year, 395 of which were due to airstrikes. The immediate objective should thus be to prevent additional civilian deaths due to airstrikes and raids, of which Azizabad was a particularly horrific example. The best way to do this...