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Maryland National Guard celebrates foreign partnerships
For Capt. Martin Noorsalu, deploying to Afghanistan with the Maryland National Guard last year was an unusual opportunity. Noorsalu is one of only a dozen helicopter pilots in the Estonian Air Force. The sole air defense service of the former Soviet...
Tags: Baltic Region, Martin O'Malley, Annapolis, Armed Forces, Balkan Peninsula
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Should we continue to be the indispensable nation?
In Hillary Clinton's farewell remarks in February on stepping down as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, she echoed one of her predecessors, Madeleine Albright, declaring America to be "the indispensable nation." "We are the force for...
Tags: Jules Witcover, Barack Obama, Libya, Afghanistan, Bill Clinton
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Georgian president visits Baltimore
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili visited Baltimore on Wednesday as part of a U.S. tour intended to build support for his country's bid to join NATO. Saakashvili visited the city to meet with Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat. He has also met with...Tags: Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, John Kerry, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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Who were the children killed in Afghanistan?
I watched 60 Minutes on Sunday and saw the anguish still being experienced by the Sandy Hook parents. Their grief has caused them to turn to action, and they are in Washington to lobby Congress to pass legislation that might prevent other gun tragedies....Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, U.S. Congress, Afghanistan, Armed Conflicts, Lobbying
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Why should U.S. support Karzai?
Every day you read something about Afghan President Hamid Karzai complaining that the U.S. military or the U.S. government did this or that which affected his country in an adverse way ("Hagel's shaky Afghan debut," March 12). When are we going to pull...
Tags: U.S. Military, Hamid Karzai
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Obama is a lame duck who knows how to quack
It's sometimes said that a lame-duck president is a weakened leader from the first day of his last term. The two-term limit of the 22nd Amendment, imposed by wrathful Republicans in 1951 in response to FDR's breach of the George Washington tradition, is...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Jules Witcover, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Al-Qaeda
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In surprise move, General Allen retires from military
Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, the former commander of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan whose nomination to lead NATO was delayed last year while investigators probed his e-mails to a Florida socialite, has retired from the military. The Naval...
Tags: White House, U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama, Annapolis, Armed Forces
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Christopher Van Hollen Sr., ambassador
Christopher Van Hollen Sr., a retired Foreign Service officer and ambassador to Sri Lanka, died of Alzheimer's disease complications Jan. 30 at the Washington Home and Hospice. The former Baltimore resident was 90. Born in Baltimore and raised in...
Tags: Primaries, University of California, Berkeley, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, World War II (1939-1945)
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Flaming meteors, hot Nike kicks and another juicy 'Scandal' are the talk of Twitter
Good morning and welcome to an extra robust Friday online trends report. So did you see that awesome Meteor Shower? No, I didn't either, but thanks to Internet our ignorance and laziness will not be punished because the photos are plentiful and popular....
Tags: The Huffington Post, Barack Obama, Television Industry, Golden Globe Awards, The Washington Post
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Don't rush out of Afghanistan
With Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his top advisers visiting Washington this week, huge questions about the future of the NATO mission there consume Afghan and American minds. How fast can we draw down our current total of 68,000 U.S. troops (and...
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Elections, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Brookings Institution
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Assad's last stand
Syria's 20-month-long civil war appears to be approaching a tipping point as fighting around Damascus intensifies amid signs that President Bashar Assad's grip on power may be weakening. As the final phase in the long conflict apparently draws nearer, the...
Tags: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Barack Obama, Libya, The New York Times, Saudi Arabia
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Senate approves Cardin human rights bill
WASHINGTON -- Human rights legislation crafted by Sen. Ben Cardin and targeted at abuses in Russia sailed through the U.S. Senate on a bipartisan vote Thursday and will now be signed by President Obama. The provision requires the State Department to...Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, White House, Human Rights, John McCain, U.S. Congress
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