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Seema Sirohi
seemasirohi
Among the star confirmation hearings today one was for incoming SecDef Gen. Lloyd Austin. He provided 125 pages of written answers to the Senate Armed Serv Com. A good window
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Avinash Paliwal
PaliwalAvi
1. This is India’s way of saying: “we hope that a ceasefire is attained & talks at Doha deliver a sustainable agreement. But we’re not counting on either of that
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David Cloud
DavidCloudLAT
BREAKING: “The Taliban have not met their commitments,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby says at first press conference. “Without them meeting their commitments...it's very hard to see a specific way
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Zaid Jilani
ZaidJilani
I don't understand this statement. If you bring the troops home, so they are no longer in harm's way, it puts them in harms way?https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1328792294582050819 The only really intellectual argument
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Glenn Greenwald
ggreenwald
The US has only been shooting Afghan farmers and bombing villages for a mere 19 years. Thank you, @SenDuckworth, for demanding there be no premature withdrawal. Afghanistan belongs to the
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Dan Lamothe
DanLamothe
The transcript of a background call with Pentagon reporters about Afghanistan was published on the Defense Department website. It reaffirms something: The truth was not told on Tuesday, deliberately or
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Andrew Watkins
and_huh_what
THREAD: As Afghans, diplomats & observers try to interpret initial Biden team signals on how it will approach peace process ... seems worth reflecting on two big bits of news
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Chris Hayes
chrislhayes
It’s all been memory-holed now but the era of Peak Conservative Bush Worship was nearly as creepy and fawning as the Trump stuff. It's interesting to track conservatives' views of
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Mehboob Qadir
MehboobQadir4
Hierarch of Macch Terror:1.After the tragic killings of Hazara miners in Macch,there has been a lot of informed and speculative debate in the media about the motives and perpetrators.While discussing
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Laffy
GottaLaff
US intelligence officers and Special Operations forces in Afghanistan alerted their superiors as early as January to a suspected Russian plot to pay bounties to the Taliban to kill American
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Elizabeth Threlkeld
ethrelkeld
A couple quick thoughts on @secpompeo's statement yesterday on the loya jirga-- https://www.state.gov/on-the-loya-jirga-in-afghanistan/ On violence reduction/ceasefire: "The Taliban have also committed to significantly reduce vio
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Sue Aside
SheerchaiZ93
[CIA's role in Afghanistan] Death squad: A death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings or forced disappearances as part of political repression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, or re
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Concerned Vets
ConcernedVets
THREAD:Dear @realDonaldTrump,Throughout your presidency, you have rightly called for the United States to withdraw from open-ended conflicts around the world that no longer serve vital American interests. Concerned Veterans for
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Jonah Blank
JonahBlank
For those still deciding whether to give @JoeBiden your vote, here's a little story that shows what he's like-- and why he deserves your trust.Over nearly a decade of staffing
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Arif Rafiq
ArifCRafiq
Wonder what Stephen Hadley means by “resetting the position of the United States in the negotiations.”The US and the Taliban already have an agreement. The talks that are now taking
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Richard Gowan
RichardGowan1
One day after the #UNSC passed a resolution on #COVID19, @GermanyUN is convening a #SecurityCouncil meeting on "#pandemics and #security". The Concept note (https://www.undocs.org/en/S/2020/571 ) asks some pretty smart questi
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