While it may be too early to tell whether Obama will follow through on his 2007 campaign pledge, it does seem like his administration is setting the stage.
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Dear Mr. President: It is stunning to me that a humane and discerning mind like yours is being dragged further into an unnecessary and unwinnable war. Please listen to your inner compass.
Seven messages and counting on my voice mail from different Bay Area reporters, all wanting to know the Muslim community's reaction about the recent heinous killings of Nidal Malik Hasan.
How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
Mark was very well respected in his unit, and was by all accounts, a first rate soldier. Why we would allow such a remarkable person to be sacrificed for a war no one seems to understand is a tragedy of epic proportions.
Without a draft, and without a war tax, 99.9% of Americans do not have to sacrifice at all to continue the war. It is too easy for war to become, for 99.9% of us, more like a video game played out on television.
So far, no "Obama Sucks" bumper stickers have shown up in Berkley, but it's clear that Democratic partisans are significantly less enthusiastic than t...
The most depressing aspect of Thursday's shoot-out at Fort Hood is that none of the 11 people who died in the melee will be counted as casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's unfair to say, categorically, that Nidal Hasan went berserk because we've made the wrong choices. But it's also unfair to continue policies that kill people on both sides of a now pointless conflict.
President Karzai has promised to rule inclusively after his contested victory. But this must mean more than just how he forms his government.
The Washington Post is still slanting its news coverage in a way that promotes the assumption that the United States is "combating extremism," rather than fueling it.
The time to bring this war to a conclusion is now and we must stand with a clear voice and demand it. It is simply impossible to impose a democracy on a nation that does not want it.
We learned after ten years and 58,000 dead in Vietnam that you can't force feed democracy. And now corrupt foreigners can't force feed a corrupt demo...
While the US officially insists that it is not setting up permanent bases in Afghanistan, the scale and permanency of the construction underway at Bagram seems to suggest, at the least, a very long stay.
This weekend, George W. Bush Sr, Helmut Kohl and Mikhail Gorbachev attended a celebration in Berlin: the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wa...
Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, kept squabbling and trading charges of fraud until the election pre-rigged by Washington fell apart. The real ruler of most of Afghanistan remains the US military and Obama.
It is time to set aside the notion that U.S. drone missile attacks in Pakistan are some kind of secret.
Yup, that's me, figuring I should practice what I preach, in addition to strongly supporting the Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America.Craig Newm...
While it is important to ensure that people have the fear of getting caught and punished for corrupt behavior, it is also crucial to streamline processes, reform laws and minimize opportunities for corruption.
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