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Afghanistan: Supreme Nato
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In April 2003, the North Atlantic Council, the alliance's top decision-making body, agreed to significantly expand NATO's support to the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan , paving the way for NATO's first mission beyond the Euro-Atlantic area. The alliance is responsible for the command, coordination, and planning of the force.
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This is not the case in Afghanistan. The problem in Afghanistan is not just the fact that there is an ongoing conflict between NATO/U.S. troops and Taliban insurgents. Of course, that does put school children in jeopardy because bullets and bombs could accidentally kill students who are on their way to school or even in their schoolyards.
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Yesterday... three major reports said just that, each concluding that the situation in Afghanistan is eroding quickly. “Make no mistake, NATO is not winning in Afghanistan,” said a military report chaired by ret. Gen. James Jones and Thomas Pickering. Boucher said he partly “disagreed” with the conclusions of the reports, which said:
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said a "more coherent international approach" is needed in Afghanistan to build on what she described as significant progress. At the same time, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, said in Lithuania that he did not think NATO was failing in its efforts to secure Afghanistan.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the survival of NATO is at stake in the fight over how the U.S. and Europe share the burden of military operations in Afghanistan. In comments to an international security conference in Germany today, Gates sa
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A Canadian independent blue-ribbon panel sets two conditions if Canadian combat troops are to stay in Afghanistan past February 2009. First, other ISAF countries have to send 1,000 combat troops to Kandahar province to reinforce ISAF’s “clear, hold and develop” strategy and train local armed forces. This apparently is a response to Canadian resentment of many NATO countries sending troops to Afghanistan under caveats that protect them from combat.
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