Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 44 Afghanistan 39 Afghan 39 Kandahar 39 Nato 39 Congresswoman Giffords progress 38 NATO 38 topple Saddam Hussein 38 war 38 fatalistic 37 mood 37 Karzai 37 insurgency 37 Iraq 36 Kabul 36 Security Assistance 36 Afghans 36 peacekeeping mission 35 defeatist 35 resurgent Taliban 35 Appathurai 35 Taliban 35 Taliban insurgency 35 troop surge 35 Gen McChrystal 35 gloomily 35 insurgency wracked 35 Uruzgan 34 bloodshed 34 Barno 34 troop pullout 34 Taleban 34 Kosovo 34 troop deployment 34 President Hamid Karzai 34 Operation Medusa 34 troop drawdown 34 troops 34 Herat 34 fascism 34 pacification 34 liberation 34 Islamist extremists 34 Kandahar province 34 troop escalation 33 oust Saddam Hussein 33 Chechnya 33 peacekeeping force 33 moods 33 Afghanistan Kai Eide 33 Wardak 33 Van Doos 33 Petraeus 32 bloody 32 ISAF 32 insurgents 32 Taleban militants 32 Af Pak 32 Spanta 32 joyous 32 sombre 32 bordering Afghanistan 32 General Kayani 32 ordinary Afghans 32 euphoric 32 troop withdrawal 32 Gen Petraeus 32 Hamid Karzai 32 exuberant 32 Taliban stronghold 31 Taliban strongholds 31 warlordism 31 morose 31 peacekeeping 31 counterinsurgency 31 Holbrooke 31 Taliban fighters 31 peacekeepers 31 postwar 31 disengagement 31 Pakistan 31 Balkans 31 troop deployments 31 joyful 31 Helmand provinces 31 Panjwayi 31 Panjwaii district 31 Kunduz 31 atmospherics 31 Taliban militants 31 ethnic strife 30 fratricidal 30 Musa Qala 30 militant sanctuaries 30 Farah province 30 tribal regions 30 troop levels 30 counter insurgency 30 AfPak 30 Abizaid 30 toppling Saddam Hussein 30 FACTBOX Security