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Obama’s Indecision Fuels ‘Talibandwagon’

October 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

If President Barack Obama continues to act indecisively and fails to heed the advice of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, we shouldn’t be surprised to see the Afghan people losing faith in the American strategy and turning to the Taliban as their last-resort option.
Cartoon by David Donar at Political Graffiti

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More Details Surface on Missing Afghan Students

October 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Earlier today, I published a post about five Afghan students reported missing for more than a week from the campus of the University of Washington.  After contacting a variety of individuals and government agency representatives, I am now able to shed more light on the matter.
At 2:52 p.m. CDT, I received some answers to a [...]

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Five Afghan Students Missing from U.S. Campus

October 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Three words — terror, terrorism and terrorists — came to mind after reading a Seattle Post-Intelligencer article about five visiting scholars from Kabul University in Afghanistan being reported missing from the University of Washington.  None of those words, however, appeared in the left-coast newspaper article, despite the fact that our nation is waging a war [...]

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