Pressure Grows On Obama To Rethink Afghan War Policy -- McClatchy News
WASHINGTON — As he mulls how many U.S. troops to pull out of Afghanistan starting next month, President Barack Obama is coming under increasing pressure from Democratic lawmakers and a growing number of Republicans to re-examine his war strategy following Osama bin Laden's death.
Obama's nominee to be the new U.S. ambassador to Kabul, veteran diplomat Ryan Crocker, felt the heat on Wednesday. Senate Foreign Relations Committee members of both parties used Crocker's confirmation hearing to vent frustration with record violence in Afghanistan nearly a decade after the U.S. invasion, and to question the size of the U.S. military contingent and what nearly $19 billion in U.S. aid since 2001 has accomplished.
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Gates: no US 'rush for the exits' in Afghanistan -- AP
U.S. lawmakers call for reduced role in Afghanistan -- Yahoo News/Reuters
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Germany warns US on Afghanistan troop cuts -- Yahoo News/AP
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U.S. can't fail Afghanistan, Obama nominee warns -- CBC
Nominee: Afghans to need support after U.S. pullout -- Washington Times
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Poll: Most want troops in Afghanistan reduced -- CBS News
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US warns withdrawal will leave Afghanistan in economic crisis -- The Independent
'Economic depression' looms in Afghanistan -- Al Jazeera
Afghans concur with Congress that aid money is often misspent -- Christian Science Monitor
US Senate Panel Questions Success of Nation-Building in Afghanistan -- Voice of America
Cut short, Afghan aid may backfire -- AJC
Trouble Seen in Afghan Aid Effort -- Wall Street Journal
Questions Grow Over Afghanistan's Post-U.S. Future -- Radio Free Europe
Army Seeks Social Media Gurus to Save Afghan War -- Danger Room
Testing the Afghan exit ramps -- David Ignatius, Washington Post
Low hopes for Afghanistan -- Dana Milbank, Washington Post
What We’re Buying in Afghanistan -- Amy Davidson, New Yorker
How to exit Afghanistan without creating wider conflict -- Washington Post editorial
Progress in Afghanistan called hard but not ‘hopeless’ -- William Branigin, Washington Post
Afghans show limits of U.S. power -- Ben Barber, Kansas City/McClatchy Newspapers
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