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...United States must increase troop levels in Afghanistan, help limit the country’s drug cultivation, and train and equip the nation’s armed forces, the nation’s ambassador to the United States said at a JFK Jr. Forum event last night. Ambassador Said T. Jawad said the troubled Middle-Eastern nation—which became a focus of U.S. anti-terrorism efforts following the September 11 attacks—has struggled to rebuild, as the United States shifted its resources toward Iraq. “State building became uncoordinated,” Jawad said...
...days when such deadly blasts were daily occurrences. On Sunday, a suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt and riding an explosives-laden motorcycle targeted recruits outside Baghdad's Police Academy, leaving some 28 dead. The spike in violence comes as the U.S. prepares to reduce its troop numbers here from 140,000 to 128,000 by September. It also follows Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's attempt to cobble together a semblance of pan-Iraqi political solidarity. He has made an overture of reconciliation to low-level former members of the Baath Party, which ruled Iraq under Saddam Hussein...
...course, because North Korea’s announcement happens to coincide with joint military exercises by American and South Korean troops, North Korea has responded with predictable threats and the placement of its troops on full military alert. This is an over-reaction—the troop exercises are defensive in nature, preparing for the eventualities of an attack by North Korea. The exercises are ridiculous; it’s hard to imagine swarms of American and South Korean troops storming the border in the case of a North Korean attack. Yet can anything really be discounted as ridiculous when...
...president is faced with more challenges abroad than he and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can realistically hope to resolve in one or even two terms, and several are significant enough that, alone, they could come to define American foreign policy during the Obama years. What will our troop commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan be in 2012? How much will Obama seek to engage Russia in dealing with Iran? Will increased cooperation with Russia undermine ties with Georgia and the Ukraine? How heavily will Obama’s administration prioritize aid to Africa? Will he get anywhere on the road...
...should come as no surprise that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been quick to endorse emerging plans to hasten the departure of U.S. forces from his country. Maliki, after all, had opposed the Bush Administration's decision to increase U.S. troop levels in the surge of 2007, and he had forced a reluctant Washington to accept a hard deadline for withdrawal in the Status of Forces Agreement adopted late last year. The growing abilities of the Iraqi security forces and the strengthening of his political position after last month's provincial elections have added to Maliki's confidence...