The Wire http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire Highlights from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wires. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:43:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en 1 The Wire http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/images/yahoo/stl_pd_logo.jpg http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire 143 50 STLtoday.com Top US commander: build Afghan forces http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/top-us-commander-build-afghan-forces/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/top-us-commander-build-afghan-forces/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:43:45 +0000 Doug Wong http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/?p=1532 BY HEIDI VOGT
Associated Press Writer

KABUL  — The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that NATO and U.S. forces will hand over responsibility for securing the country to its own security forces “as rapidly as conditions allow” — welcome news…

]]> http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/top-us-commander-build-afghan-forces/feed/ Obama hints at expanded campaign in Pakistan http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/obama-hints-at-expanded-campaign-in-pakistan/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/obama-hints-at-expanded-campaign-in-pakistan/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:41:26 +0000 Doug Wong http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/?p=1530 BY DAVID E. SANGER AND ERIC SCHMITT
c.2009 New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama focused his speech on Afghanistan. He left much unsaid about Pakistan, where the main terrorists he is targeting are located, but where he can…

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Associated Press

WASHINGTON  — President Barack Obama’s speech Tuesday night did not always match the reality on the ground in Afghanistan.

The president raised expectations that may be hard to meet when he told Americans his troop…

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Some reaction to President Barack Obama’s plans for the Afghanistan war:

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“The Afghanistan-Pakistan review led by the president has provided me with a clear military mission and the resources to accomplish our task. The clarity, commitment and resolve…

]]> http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/reaction-to-obamas-afghanistan-war-plans/feed/ With extra troops, Obama sends demands to Kabul, Karzai http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/with-extra-troops-obama-sends-demands-to-kabul-karzai/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/with-extra-troops-obama-sends-demands-to-kabul-karzai/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:16:19 +0000 Doug Wong http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/?p=1523 BY DEXTER FILKINS
New York Times

President Barack Obama’s commitment Tuesday night to redouble America’s campaign in Afghanistan left unanswered what is perhaps the most decisive question of all: Will the Afghans step up too?

In ordering the accelerated deployment of 30,000 fresh…

]]> http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/with-extra-troops-obama-sends-demands-to-kabul-karzai/feed/ Ukrainian museum claims it owns a Titian portrait http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/ukrainian-museum-claims-it-owns-a-titian-portrait/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/ukrainian-museum-claims-it-owns-a-titian-portrait/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:15:41 +0000 News Services http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/?p=1521 BY SIMON SHUSTER
Associated Press Writer

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The director of a Ukrainian museum claimed Tuesday that a portrait of a Venetian Doge in its collection is a work of Titian, even as an expert warned that art historians are…

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New York Times News Service

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Over the past eight years, deployments to the Middle East have become so routine at this military base that President Barack Obama’s declaration Tuesday of a military…

]]> http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/for-soldiers-strain-met-with-resolve/feed/ Obama’s Afghanistan plan faces political challenges http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/obamas-afghanistan-plan-faces-political-challenges/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/obamas-afghanistan-plan-faces-political-challenges/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:02:30 +0000 Doug Wong http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/?p=1517 BY RICHARD S. DUNHAM
Houston Chronicle

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s Tuesday night speech tonight at West Point was one of the most challenging of his 11-month-old presidency. Facing both political problems at home and a war he says has “moved backwards” in…

]]> http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/obamas-afghanistan-plan-faces-political-challenges/feed/ Troops, families mixed over Obama’s Afghan surge http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/troops-families-mixed-over-obamas-afghan-surge/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/troops-families-mixed-over-obamas-afghan-surge/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:48:05 +0000 Doug Wong http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/?p=1515 BY KEVIN MAURER
Associated Press

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — Battle-weary troops and their families braced for a wrenching round of new deployments to Afghanistan announced Tuesday by the president, but many said they support the surge as long as it helps to end…

]]> http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/troops-families-mixed-over-obamas-afghan-surge/feed/ llinois to poison canal in hopes of killing invasive carp http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/llinois-to-poison-canal-in-hopes-of-killing-invasive-carp/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/12/01/llinois-to-poison-canal-in-hopes-of-killing-invasive-carp/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:43:20 +0000 News Services http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/?p=1512 By Tina Lam
Detroit Free Press

DETROIT _ The largest fish kill in Illinois history _ expected to net 100 tons of fish including, hopefully, some Asian carp _ is to start Wednesday south of Chicago in an attempt to make sure…

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