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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Tue Nov-11-08 09:24 PM
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Afghan Insurgency Stronger Than Ever
Source: CBS News

CBS Evening News: Exclusive Video Shows Taliban Training Extremely Young Soldiers


(CBS) The war President-elect Barack Obama is inheriting in Afghanistan includes an insurgency that's stronger than ever.

And it's creeping ever-closer to the Afghan capital.

In a video obtained by CBS News, a U.S. convoy is attacked less than 20 miles from Kabul.

"I think in Afghanistan, we really dropped the ball for a long time," said Karin von Hippel of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

It's now widely agreed America's new president needs a new approach, CBS News cheif foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan reports.

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As Logan reports, this is the cost of not bringing in Afghanistan's neighbors. An exclusive video from Pakistan's tribal areas shows young boys being indoctrinated as suicide bombers.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/11/eveningnews/m... ;secondStory
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   needs a new approach ?  edwardlindy   Nov-11-08 09:44 PM   #1 
   Gee, that's strange, coz George W. bUsh said, on 9/27/2004  LynnTheDem   Nov-12-08 01:43 AM   #2 
      Notice they now call them "insurgents" instead of Taliban  Winterblues   Nov-12-08 11:53 AM   #3 
 
dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-11-08 09:44 PM
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1. needs a new approach ?
Take a tip from the Russians and get out. I'd recommend this film if you never seen it : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094716/
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-12-08 01:43 AM
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2. Gee, that's strange, coz George W. bUsh said, on 9/27/2004
And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/09/2004092...
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-12-08 11:53 AM
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3. Notice they now call them "insurgents" instead of Taliban
We need to GET OUT....
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