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Will Afghanistan be 'mission impossible'? | Toronto Star

Cecille Isidro — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:33:00 -0400

Peter Bergen, senior fellow at the New American Foundation, believes if NATO countries pull their troops out of Afghanistan it won't have a major military ...

Would Troop Surge Work in Afghanistan? | Toronto Star

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:33:00 -0400

"I don't see how thousands of extra troops are going to play into the fight against Al Qaeda, which is based mainly in Pakistan," says Nicholas Schmidle, ...

Can Obama Catch Osama? | Toronto Star

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:38:00 -0400

Indeed, the number of "spies" al Qaeda (and their Taliban allies) have killed has risen dramatically in the past 10 months, says Peter Bergen, a counter-terrorism expert at the New America Foundation.

Signs that Sanity is Returning to Middle East | Toronto Star

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:31:00 -0400

He has won back for the US the benefit of the doubt – of "time and space," in the phrase of Daniel Levy of the Washington-based New America Foundation. Nor is Obama resting on his accomplishment in Cairo of winning a standing ovation and afterwards ...

Too Early to Assess Blame for Mumbai Attacks | Toronto Star

Communications — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:37:00 -0500

... run the operation," said Peter Bergen, a senior fellow at Washington think-tank The New America Foundation, who has written extensively on Al Qaeda. ...

Peter Bergen in the Toronto Star | 'Taliban Spurns Karzai's Peace Bid'

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:08:00 -0500

Although Omar is the most senior Taliban leader, says Peter Bergen, author of The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al Qaeda's Leader, "he controls the faithful, but there hasn't been any evidence for years that he controls the battlefield." LINK

Parag Khanna in the Toronto Star | 'American Influence Dwindles on World Stage'

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:02:00 -0400

"What bothers me is that nobody can define any priorities or set any themes," said Parag Khanna, author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. "We are really living in the new Middle Ages, where you have terrorist movements and mercenaries, international corporations and crusaders, and city states. That's the real 21st century landscape." LINK

Peter Bergen in the Toronto Star | 'Path to Peace Fraught for Afghans'

Communications — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:00:00 -0400

"However you slice it, Afghanistan has gone south in the last few years," says Peter Bergen, senior fellow at The New America Foundation, Afghanistan expert and author of The Osama bin Laden I Know. "It has been a strategic failure for NATO. So many countries have caveats that prevent their soldiers from fighting. There's a complicated chain of command. Domestic opposition won't allow those countries to send more troops.

"That political pressure doesn't exist in the U.S. And there's no denying that America has the most effective armed forces on the planet." LINK

William Hartung in Toronto Star | '$3 Trillion Is Just a Part of the Cost'

Communications — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:45:00 -0400

$3 Trillion Is Just a Part of the Cost (Toronto Star)

. . . "There seems to be a political taboo about questioning levels of military spending," says William Hartung, director of the arms and security initiative of the Washington-based New America Foundation.

Patrick Doherty in Toronto Star | 'A broker's role for Canada'

Communications — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:28:00 -0500

A broker's role for Canada (Toronto Star)

...Patrick Doherty, the director of the Washington-based U.S.-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative [New America Foundation], said any such effort by Ottawa and like-minded allies could be "catalytic'' for any change coming with a new president.