Joe, got through the Tuesday, Afghanistan News Conference. His Presidency is not going up in flames on Afghanistan. He got 75,000 out of the country in August using one airport. He pulled in the perfect person, William Burns, to meet with the Taliban Leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar. Burns is a respected practical diplomat with a
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TALIBAN RESHUFFLES GEOPOLITICAL DECK
TALIBAN. The Taliban are a movement that originated in the mid 1990s. They practice a strict fundamentalist version of Sharia Law. The Taliban have 150,000 fighters. They now control Afghanistan, a landlocked country that borders Iran, China, Pakistan and four countries ending in “stan” known as the Stans. The Taliban now get, for a brief
THE TRADE FOR BOWE BERGDAHL: FOX'S LAST CHANCE TO BRING DOWN OBAMA
From Birtherism to Benghazi, Obamacare to American Exceptionalism, FOX has whiffed on every one of its efforts to do serious damage to the Obama presidency. Now, with President Obama's decision to exchange five Taliban detainees for one American soldier, FOX thinks they have the raw material that can be turned into a firestorm of outrage.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI, JUDGE DEBRA NELSON, MARION BARTOLI: DOING THEIR JOBS
Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai earned her right to address the United Nations the hard way. Malala was shot in the face by the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat Valley last October. She, and her father Ziauddin, had been activists for education for girls in Swat, and had incurred the wrath of the Taliban. The day she