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By Benjamin Sutherland How might the United States ratchet up pressure on foreign enemies and threats, wherever they are on the globe, while reducing the need to station warships, planes, and troops within striking distance? A new type of weapon might...

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  • Afghans Optimistic Despite U.S. Public Opinion

    Newsweek | Nov 11, 2009 06:00 AM
    By Jerry Guo
    Since barack obama took office, U.S. public opinion has grown increasingly bleak on Afghanistan's prospects. Yet Afghans are increasingly optimistic. In an Asia Foundation survey taken in June and July, 42 percent said the country is moving in the right direction, up from 38 percent last year, despite rampant corruption and Taliban advances. The margin for error was about 4 percent, so this doesn't represent a big spike, but it's still striking that Afghanistan's morale is not decaying as fast as the world's view of Afghanistan is.      More
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  • Karzai's Runoff Concession Damages His Credibility

    Newsweek | Nov 5, 2009 06:13 AM
    By Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau Hamid Karzai probably would have won Afghanistan's Aug. 20 presidential election even without the widespread fraud that led a U.N.-backed electoral watchdog to throw out a third of his votes. And he will almost certainly... More
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  • India Is Key Player In Afghan Conflict

    Newsweek | Oct 19, 2009 09:00 AM

    What’s more dangerous than being an American in Afghanistan? Being an Indian in Afghanistan. On Oct. 8, a car bomb exploded outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul, killing 17 people and wounding 76. The attack came 15 months after another bomb damaged the embassy and killed 58, including the Indian defense attaché. Elsewhere in the country, Indian workers have been victims of suicide attacks and kidnappings.

    Although rarely discussed in the West, India is a key player in the Afghan conflict. New Delhi has long sought to keep friendly governments in Kabul as a bulwark against archrival Pakistan. India pledged more than $1.2 billion in reconstruction aid to Afghanistan, making it the country’s fifth-largest donor and the biggest within the region. There are at least 4,000 Indian workers and security personnel employed on reconstruction projects in the country. India also opened an air base in Tajikistan, its first on foreign soil, to supply its Afghan operations.     More
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  • How Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Surprise Is Being Received in the World's Hot Spots

    Katie Paul | Oct 9, 2009 12:03 PM


    Click here for our photo tour of Obama's rise from Barry to Barack. (Photo credit: Gerald Herbert / AP)

    Barack Obama's big surprise win this morning produced more than a few "huhs?!?" heard 'round the world. Our personal favorite came from Lech Walesa, the 1983 Peace Prize winner and Poland’s president from 1990 to 1995, who told reporters in Warsaw: “Who, Obama? So fast? Too fast—he hasn’t had the time to do anything yet.” Of course, the head-scratching most relevant to this particular prize is happening in places like Jerusalem, Peshawar, and Harare. Here's what folks there have to say on the matter:

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  • Obama Not First Surprising Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Seven Controversial Recipients

    David A. Graham | Oct 9, 2009 08:00 AM

      

    President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, only eight months into his term. It's a bold—and some might say strange—move to fete a president who's still in the beginning of his diplomatic career. After all, Arizona State didn't even think he was ready for an honorary degree. Who knows what else he has in store for the United States? One thing we do know: Obama is likely to order thousands more troops into a war zone within weeks.

    So the U.S. president may seem like a surprising choice for the award. This is the Nobel Peace Prize we're talking about, an honor designed to seek out and reward those who's contribution to the cause of harmony and peace on the face of this earth is both outstanding and unquestionable.

    Well, most of the time.  

    Read on for the other unlikely recipients. 

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