It looks like big decisions are getting made on the first day of the NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal. NATO will start withdrawing troops in Afghanistan next July with the goal of ending combat missions there by 2014, possibly sooner, but it’s unclear…

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NATO Agrees to 2014 Afghan Pullout

MUMBAI – President Obama was challenged Sunday by an Indian university student to explain his administration’s unwavering support for Pakistan, exposing in a single question the central obstacle to his goal of strengthening the U.S. relationship with India.

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Democrats are expanding their attacks against conservative groups who buy pro-GOP advertising, with the goal of forcing the revelation of the groups’ donors. Groups like MoveOn.org and Public Citizen are urging TV networks to ask whether the ads are…

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Dems Seek to Limit GOP Donors

If the goal of the education documentary Waiting for “Superman” was to start a conversation, director Davis Guggenheim has just scored the best audience he could have hoped for. Guggenheim, along with five students featured in the film, will meet with…

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There is no doubt that Osama bin Laden is foremost on the minds of the courageous CIA and Special Forces officers in Afghanistan who are looking for him. Where he hasn’t appeared lately is in the debates about what the United States is trying to achieve in Afghanistan and whether our emphasis should…

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Top U.S. goal in Afghanistan ought to be capturing bin Laden

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has made clear that his objective in releasing tens of thousands of classified documents was to “end the war in Afghanistan” and “oppose an unjust [war] plan before it reaches implementation.” He may well achieve his goal. Assange’s illegal disclosures are helping the Taliban to undermine Gen. David Petraeus’s counterinsurgency strategy before it has a chance to work.

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Undoing WikiLeaks’s damage