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Mullen discusses U.S. strategy for Middle East in Wasington

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen discusses U.S. objectives in the Middle East, especially in regards to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, at the National Press Club in Washington on July 8, 2009. Mullen said he expects the focus to continue to shift from Iraq to Afghanistan over the next year. He also expressed concern with Iran's nuclear arms ambitions, about which he has previously noted that military options have not been pulled off the table. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)


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WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- As the Obama administration agonizes over Afghanistan and a flurry of insurgent attacks in neighboring Pakistan rocks that country, Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke has become, surprisingly, nearly invisible. When it came to convincing, cajoling or coercing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to accept the inevitability of a runoff election, who did the heavy lifting?
WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- Israel’s new ambassador in Washington is as much an American as he is Israeli. He is both. His challenge is to keep the “dawks” -- neither hawk nor dove -- of the Obama administration and Israel’s coalition of hawks singing from the same hymnal on both the Palestinian and Iranian crises. So far, the geopolitical aviary is emitting only discordant notes.
WASHINGTON, July 5 (UPI) -- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen said Sunday a military strike on Iran could prove "very destabilizing."
Baghdad killings reflect U.S. Army stress crisis
WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- The tragedy at Camp Liberty, near Baghdad, where an American soldier shot and killed five U.S. personnel and wounded three others, has been at least six years in the making.
WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- U.S. officials think Iran has sufficient material to produce a nuclear weapon, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen said Sunday.
HELSINKI, Finland, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Nicolai Makarov, head of the Russian General Staff, met Tuesday in Finland.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen says he thinks Washington and Iraq can agree on the future role of American forces in Iraq by year's end.
WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he wants details on the military's use of private contracting firms such as Blackwater for training.
WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday an Iraq withdrawal timeline could have dangerous consequences.
WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- The United States may consider raising troop strength in Afghanistan even as it considers cuts in Iraq, top defense officials indicated.
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