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Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Sneaky Comrade Obama using Afghanistan surge as Trojan Horse for escalating leverage against Pakistan

Fine print of Obama's Afghanistan speech: it's about Pakistan

(The Christian Science Monitor) -- By Howard LaFranchi
Washington - President Obama's speech Tuesday night may have focused on his decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, but infusing almost every paragraph was the administration's even deeper concern about Pakistan...left largely unsaid was the extent to which the new strategy for Afghanistan also means a ratcheting up of resources for – and pressures on – Pakistan.

"From the beginning, Pakistan has always had primacy in this president's thinking about things," says Bruce Riedel, a South Asia expert, formerly of the Central Intelligence Agency, who co-chaired Obama's initial interagency review of Afghanistan-Pakistan policy last winter...Cont'd...LINK

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