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...Afghanistan is Obama's war now, so branded after he approved dispatching 21,000 more U.S. troops into battle earlier this year, a move that will raise the U.S. troop level there to 68,000 next month. He also tapped Army general Stan McChrystal as his new Afghan commander to develop a new strategy to win the war. But McChrystal found the security situation there in a dangerous decline, and says he needs 40,000 additional U.S. troops to have the best chance of turning things around. Obama's inner circle is having doubts over whether the President should approve...
...Congress and how the issue is raised. Republicans could look for allies within the ranks of conservative Democrats to try to bring the bill to a vote in Congress - a big if. If so, the issue could become ammunition to be used against incumbent Democrats in midterm elections next year. Says Duffy: "It might be a vote that Republicans wouldn't mind making them take...
...promise of curbing soaring costs and providing coverage for the nearly 50 million uninsured. Though most everyone recognizes that the Federal Government can't impose a rigid approach, some critics say the crucial version of legislation that is expected to pass Senator Max Baucus' Finance Committee in the next week - it is widely considered the closest version to what will eventually reach the President's desk - may go too far in the other direction. "To leave a lot of these responsibilities to the states will create a patchwork mess," says Jacob Hacker, a political science professor and health-policy expert...
...order to ship fuel from Kandahar to a Dutch base at Tirin Kot, the firm hired a local tribal mafioso who boasted of having a strong militia to protect the convoy. The arrangement worked well until the trucking firm quarreled with the mafioso over a price hike. The next convoy was ambushed, two tankers were set ablaze, and drivers reported that several of the mafioso's gunmen were among the Taliban attackers. After that, the trucking firm forked out the extra fees for protection...
...January. "This was presented at that time as something nobody knew about, a secret facility," he told TIME in an exclusive interview. "It was built into a mountain; obviously that raised question marks." Panetta said that after he was confirmed as the agency's director, "we spent the next months trying to get better intel about what was going on there ... and conducting covert operations into that area." (See pictures of the world's worst nuclear disasters...