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Tony Sullivan's List: Places to watch: Afghanistan and Central Asia
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On Tuesday, Senator Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator and most hawkish supporter of America's military presence in Afghanistan, said unless President Hamid Karzai relented on his demands that night raids against suspected insurgents must stop and the US hands over to the Afghans control of prisoners "then there is no hope of winning. None".
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Despite repeated public assurances by the federal government that gains are being made and that long-term success is possible, secret United States embassy cables reveal that some of our top diplomats and officials hold grave concerns about the nine-year war
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the outlook in Afghanistan ''scares the hell'' out of him.
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''It's not him,'' said a Western diplomat intimately involved in the discussions. ''And we gave him a lot of money.''
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