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Friday, February 10th, 2012

Posts Tagged safe havens

Is Containing Al-Qaeda the Real Endgame in Afghanistan-Pakistan?

By | 12.04.09 | 11:07 am

Dedicated readers know that since March I’ve been trying to determine how the Obama administration conceives of the actual endgame in Afghanistan-Pakistan — that is, the point at which we can say the mission is successful. The whole strategy is geared around the elimination of al-Qaeda’s safe havens More…

About Those Af-Pak Questions

By | 03.27.09 | 12:19 pm

To gaze in one’s own navel: I said earlier I’d be listening to Obama’s Af-Pak speech for answers to four questions, like this was Passover or something. So what about those answers?

Townsend: ‘It Will Be Fair Game To Say, Did This Administration Do Enough?’

By | 10.10.08 | 10:55 am

I asked Fran Townsend if the Bush administration she worked for has to take responsibility for allowing the Pakistani tribal areas to become a new safe haven. She didn’t directly answer, but she sort of hinted that the answer is yes.