"The reason we are in Afghanistan militarily is that we know the consequences of allowing the bad lands of Afghanistan, of the Afghan-Pakistan border to become an incubator for international terrorism,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

The Obama administration is engagedin a review of U.S.strategy in Afghanistan, and worries on the left about the U.S.getting militarily bogged down will be part of the broader political debate in Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"So I think we need to brace ourselves for a new period." Analysts say the once political and militarily strategic alliance between Turkey and Israel was the most powerful alliance in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27