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04 Dec 09

With Key Role, Gates Stands to Get Credit -- or Blame - WSJ.com

  • President Barack Obama's new strategy for the flagging Afghan war is largely the handiwork of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who developed the idea of sending U.S. reinforcements and then helped persuade administration officials to support it.
  • "Everyone talks about Afghanistan is Obama's war, but it's really Gates's war now in a way that it never was before," said a military official with recent experience in Afghanistan who is supportive of Mr. Gates's strategy. "Gates has the commander he wants, the troops he wants, and the strategy he wants. He'll get a lot of credit if we win, and a lot of the blame if we don't."
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10 Nov 09

Interview on the Charlie Rose Show

  • QUESTION: Is Germany on board with respect to Afghanistan?

    SECRETARY CLINTON: I think Germany is committed to the effort in Afghanistan. They’re waiting, like the rest of the world is, the United States, and through President Obama, to announce our intentions and our way forward. But they have a deep understanding of why this is important for NATO, why this is important for the larger international community. And I think that given the right measures of accountability that we need to be seeking from President Karzai and his government, we’re going to see a commitment not just from Germany, but from many of our NATO allies.
28 Oct 09

Hillary Clinton visits Pakistan in bid to improve relations - washingtonpost.com

  • rising anti-Americanism and convincing Pakistanis that the United States wants a relationship based on more than counterterrorism.
  • a wave of suicide bombings, assassinations and attacks in Pakistani cities.
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22 Oct 09

Clinton's overshadowed nonproliferation speech | The Cable

  • On
    North Korea:
  • On
    Iran:
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VOA News - Clinton, Gates: Goals Are Same in Afghanistan, Only Details Under Review

  • "What we're going through in asking ourselves, 'Okay, we know what the goal is, is what we're going most likely to achieve that goal, is what a very decisive and intelligent commander-in-chief would do," Clinton said. "So we're going to come up with the best approach, but the goal remains the same."
  • "The notion of being willing to pause, reassess basic assumptions, reassess the analysis and then make those decisions, seems to me, given the importance of these decisions, which I've said are probably among the most important he will make in his entire presidency, seems entirely appropriate," Gates said.
27 Sep 09

Gates: Bush lacked Afghanistan strategy; Obama's is 'first real' one - TheHill.com

  • Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Sunday said that the United
    States has faced difficulties in the Afghanistan conflict because the
    Bush administration did not have the same kind of "comprehensive
    strategy" that President Barack Obama does for the nation.
  • "I will tell you, I think that the strategy the president put
    forward in late March, is the first real strategy we have had for
    Afghanistan since the early 1980s,"
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Interview With Harry Smith of Face the Nation

  • Afghanistan
  • One of the things he says is there is a year window in which the United States has to act in order to ensure that the insurgency doesn’t basically take over the country.
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