Amid Soaring Deaths, Obama Affirms Afghan Strategy

No 'Adjustments' Needed on War Fronts: Obama

Headline, Oct 5, 2010
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/10/05-0

Adm Mullen: Creating Jobs in Afghanistan

Adm. Mullen on Meet the Press

"Afghanistan has to be stable enough, has to have enough governance, have to--has to create enough jobs, have an economy that's good enough so that the Taliban cannot return to the brutality of the kind of regime that you just showed."

The MIC has a new sales exec

Obama Seeks to Expand US Arms Exports | CommonDreams.org

"The United States is currently the world biggest weapons supplier - holding 30 per cent of the market - but the Obama administration has begun modifying export control regulations in hopes of enlarging the U.S. market share, according to U.S. officials."