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Letters: Vietnam today
Re "The Vietnam syndrome," Opinion, May 5 Frank Snepp, a former CIA analyst who was in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975, worries that we may not have learned the lessons of our war in that country. He may have missed the most important lesson....
Tags: Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Iraq, Central Intelligence Agency
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U.S. turns over troubled dam project to Afghanistan
KAJAKI, Afghanistan — After struggling for more than a decade to upgrade a huge hydroelectric plant in a volatile region that saw heavy American losses in fighting with the Taliban, the United States is trying a new approach: Let the Afghans take...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Manufacturing and Engineering, Wars and Interventions, Stanley A. McChrystal, Taliban
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Air Force staff sergeant from California is killed in Afghanistan
An Air Force staff sergeant from a base in Northern California has been killed in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Sunday. Richard A. Dickson, 24, of Rancho Cordova, east of Sacramento, was among four Air Force personnel killed...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, Military Equipment, Armed Forces
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Smashed U.S. cars get second chance in Afghanistan
HERAT, Afghanistan — They sit in the sun harboring their lost histories, their forgotten dreams, their traces of funerals, graduations and stolen kisses. On dusty windshields, insurance stickers from Travelers and State Farm bear witness to wrecks...
Tags: Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Taliban, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Services and Shopping, Pakistan
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Afghanistan files formal protest after Pakistan border clash
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government summoned Pakistan’s charge d’affaires in Kabul to the Foreign Ministry on Monday to file a “strong protest” after another clash along the countries' troubled border. The skirmish,...
Tags: Taliban, Pakistan, Hamid Karzai, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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NATO: 5 Americans killed in southern Afghanistan
Five U.S. service members were killed on Saturday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the latest deadly attack against international troops since the Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive this week. The coalition did not disclose...Tags: Barack Obama, Bombings, Emergency Incidents, NDS Group Plc, Explosions
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Body fragments found at U.S. plane crash site in Kyrgyzstan
MOSCOW -- Rescue teams found remains of two crew members Saturday morning at the site of a U.S. military plane crash in Kyrgyzstan, an official said. “Fragments of two bodies have already been found as we are continuing the search,”...
Tags: Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), U.S. Air Force, Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, Central Asia
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McManus: Obama's Gitmo woes
President Obama sounded genuinely outraged last week when he talked about the Kafkaesque situation at the Guantanamo prison camp, where the United States has been holding 166 men without trial for terms that are, at this point, officially endless. "It's...
Tags: Yemen, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Wars and Interventions, Strikes
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Afghanistan gets visit by U.S. Joint Chiefs chairman
KABUL, Afghanistan –Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday for a weekend visit aimed at assessing the amount and type of training that American troops will continue to provide Afghan defense forces...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey, Emergency Incidents, Bombings
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Roadside bomb in Afghanistan kills 9 civilians
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb detonated under a bus in Afghanistan on Monday, killing nine civilians, officials said. It was the latest in a string of attacks over the past week that have left noncombatants dead. The bus was driving from the...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, John Kerry, Motorvehicle Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Bombings
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Global Voices: Author reflects on thwarted Afghanistan invasions
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” Nowhere has that admonishment by 18th century statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke been ignored with such disastrous consequences as in Afghanistan. The imperial British...
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Hamid Karzai, Separation of Church and State, Wars and Interventions
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'Lone wolf' terrorists get what they want in global spotlight
If late bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev attacked the Boston Marathon with an aim to draw attention to Muslim suffering in Chechnya, his ancestral homeland, he succeeded. Or if, as alleged by some who knew him, he was angered by U.S. military...
Tags: Religious Conflicts, Arts and Culture, Media Industry, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Islam
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