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Obama Says Gadhafi Must Leave Libya 'Now'
By Tom Diemer
President Obama said Saturday Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi lost his legitimacy after resorting to mass violence against his own people "and needs to do what is right for his country by leaving now." The White House said Obama talked about the need for Gadhafi to surrender power in a private ...
Nir Rosen's Offensive Tweets Shouldn't Have Surprised Us
By Matt LewisAs I recently noted, Nir Rosen, a left-wing war journalist, resigned his NYU fellowship amid uproar over offensive Tweets he sent immediately following news of the brutal sexual assault suffered by CBS reporter Lara Logan in Egypt. As the news about Logan was breaking, Rosen Tweeted several utterly ...
Report: Petraeus May Leave Afghan Campaign by End of Year
By Matt LewisThe Times of London reports that "General David Petraeus, the most celebrated American soldier of his generation, is to leave his post as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan." "The Times can reveal that the Pentagon aims to replace General Petraeus, who was appointed less than eight ...
The Afghanistan War: Tactical Victories, Strategic Stalemate?
By David Wood
The top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, likes to describe the tactical gains his troops are making against insurgents. But a stream of independent data and analysis suggests a wide gap between those battlefield gains and the strategic progress needed to convince a skeptical President ...
Obama Budget Due Monday as Debate Nears on Raising Debt Ceiling
By Tom Diemer
It's crunch time. With deficit hawks hovering, President Obama will offer his 2012 budget Monday, a spending package likely to include enough cuts to offend liberals, but not enough to mollify conservatives. But that's just an opener. House Republicans, facing an early March deadline to finish ...
Egypt Update: Obama Welcomes Army Promise of 'Democratic' Transition
By Politics Daily Staff
President Obama welcomed Saturday the announcement by Egypt's military that it would oversee a peaceful transition to a democratic system as the country faced a new day and uncertain future in the wake of the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. In Cairo, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said ...
At Risk in Egypt's Turmoil: U.S. Military Access to the Middle East
By David Wood
Three hundred combat-armed paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division plummeted from a cobalt Egyptian sky. U.S. and Egyptian marines swarmed ashore in waves of armored vehicles, and American jets streaked low overhead. It was October 2009, the most recent -- and perhaps the last -- of the massive ...
John Kerry: Egypt's Mubarak Must 'Step Aside Gracefully'
By Tom Diemer
Sen. John Kerry, a leading Capitol Hill spokesman on foreign policy, has gone a step beyond the Obama administration and called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign as a way of bringing an end to the chaos shaking the country. Mubarak "must accept that the stability of his country hinges ...
U.S. Spent Billions Arming Egypt; Would Schools and Jobs Have Been Wiser Investments?
By David Wood
Upheavals in Egypt and across the Middle East are shaking a major foundation of American foreign policy: the conviction that arms sales and military strength ensure stability. From Algeria to Yemen, throngs of chronically unemployed youth are upending U.S.-backed regimes heavily armed with American ...
Cairo Is Not Berlin: The Folly of Mistaking Egypt for the Former Eastern Bloc
By Sarah Wildman
"Whatever the future holds . . . the tide can never be turned back." Words about Egypt's days of protest, which broke out last Tuesday? No. Written this week? No. The sentence comes from Page One of the Washington Post on Aug. 31, 1980. The country was Poland. The story was striking Lenin Shipyard ...
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