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U.S. War Strategy Should Focus on Pakistan, Republican Senator Says
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
By Staff, Associated Press

Washington (AP) - The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is questioning whether the United States is focusing on the right country in its war against the Taliban and the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Sen. Dick Lugar said Wednesday the U.S. risks spending billions of dollars fighting in strategically less important Afghanistan while militants becoming more secure in their havens across the border in Pakistan.

The Indiana Republican prepared the remarks for a Senate hearing where lawmakers will hear testimony from Gen. David Petraeus, overall commander for the Mideast region, and Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.

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Peted (3 months ago)

Is Senator Lugar signing on to the "Invade Pakistan" strategy espoused by Barack Obama? There are too many Field Marshalls and Generalissimos in Washington, D.C. nowadays. If they really wanted to do something constructive, they should go to the war of their choice, strap on a 45 and run forward as fast as their spindly legs will carry them, while shouting: "Follow Me"! This should create an opening in Congress!

poohster48 (3 months ago)

Don't tell us we are wrong again! Saudis attack us and we do not retaliate against Suadi Arabia, No weapons of Mass Destruction after we invade Iraq and hang their leader, No Bin Landin in Agahnistan and were stuck fighting the Mighty Taliban Armed Forces (a joke), now it Pakistan? Somebody take charge and point us in the right direction and send us home, PLEASE!

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