It’s a working Saturday for the prez on Nov. 20: he’ll be at the NATO Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, pow-wowing on Afghanistan throughout the day, then participating in the United States-European Union Summit before heading home. Here’s what’s on deck: 8:30 a.m. — The president attends the opening session on Afghanistan at Feria Internacional de [...]
Support for continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan has taken a sharply negative turn with 50 percent of Americans saying the U.S. should not be involved while 44 percent believe fighting the war is the right thing to do, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Nov. 8-15. Six percent were undecided. In all of Quinnipiac’s [...]
The Obama administration, which last year announced a troop surge in Afghanistan followed by a phased withdrawal starting in 2011, now has added new dates to the timeline, with an eye toward ending the U.S. combat mission there by 2014, officials told the New York Times on Sunday.Under the plan, security duties in select areas [...]
A group of rogue U.S. soldiers allegedly began a months-long spree starting last January in which they randomly targeted and killed Afghan civilians and even dismembered some corpses as well as photographing them and hoarding skulls and human bones, the Washington Post reported. The Post identified the soldiers as members of a platoon from the [...]
One of the ironies of Barack Obama’s presidency at this particular juncture is that the man whose credentials for handling foreign policy and foreign crises were openly questioned in the 2008 campaign is doing better in the polls on foreign policy and challenges like Afghanistan than he is on domestic issues. (Remember that Hillary Clinton [...]
The Obama administration’s Afghanistan strategy isn’t working and the costly military campaign against the Taliban should be abandoned, a prominent liberal study group recommended Wednesday.A bipartisan group assembled by the New America Foundation, a liberal Washington think tank, said in a new study that “trying to pacify Afghanistan by force of arms will not work, [...]
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