Mullah Omar vs. Barack Obama -- Ahmed Rashid, Globe And Mail
The Taliban leader has launched a pre-emptive strike as the President prepares to unveil his new Afghan strategy.
President Barack Obama's crucial speech today, in which he will lay out a strategy for how the United States will defeat the Taliban, will have to satisfy many different audiences around the world. It will need to be finely balanced to appease U.S. and European audiences that want a time frame for a pullout of troops from Afghanistan and Afghans who want a sustained U.S. commitment to rebuild the country.
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