The President has announced an increase of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan within the next 6 months with the goal of pulling out all troops by July 2011. This is long overdue as we commend Obama for finally listening to General McChrystal. But the bottom line is, there is no magic bullet for fixing Afghanistan. Our [...]
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A day after 11 US troops were killed in helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, 8 more serviceman were killed today in a bomb attack. October is now the deadliest month in this 8 year war for US troops! Where does it end? What is our strategy?
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After a weekend that saw 12 servicemen killed in action in Afghanistan, and the top US commander, General McChrystal, questioning the Commander in Chief’s strategy, we are left with one simple question: When did Afghanistan become Iraq? It seems like not too long ago these were the headlines coming out of Afghanistan’s neighbor to the [...]
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August has been the deadliest month for US troops serving in Afghanistan since the war began in the beginning of the decade. As Clive Crook rightly pointed out today in the Financial Times, if President Obama thought the heat was on him in the health-care debate, just wait until Afghanistan creeps back into everyone’s memory [...]
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Today we awake to more American soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Let us ask a question. Does this administration have any plan for winning this war? We guarantee if Bush was still president or even John McCain, there would be front page articles about the casualties in Afghanistan every day in the New York Times. They [...]
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In the most under-reported story of our lifetime, the U.S. has faced the most combat losses in July in Afghanistan since the start of combat operation there. As we have pointed out many times on this blog, it is a strategic blunder to add more and more troops there, as we did in Iraq. As [...]
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President Obama has been gaining praise recently from Republicans, most notably Lindsay Graham, on his handling of National Security issues.We are going to follow suit on this blog and congratulate the President on a job well done. We have to give credit to Obama for not caving in to those lunatics at his campaign office, [...]
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Man, the lemmings sure do turn on their fearless leader awful quickly. Lefty columnist Will Bunch of the Philly Inquirer called Obama “The New Nixon” in his blog yesterday. This is the same liberal who wrote a book saying that the legacy of Reagan was nothing more than a myth and a fraud. Here is [...]
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