Obama Seeking Options To Send Fewer Troops To Afghanistan
President Obama has asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late F...
President Obama has asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late F...
Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban strongho...
ABC News | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
Sources tell ABC News that as of now President Obama will likely announce his decision about a new strategy in Afghanistan at some point between the A...
New York Times | Mark Landler and Thom Shanker | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
The last time the Obama administration arrived at a moment of truth in the debate over what to do about Afghanistan, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. military will not hesitate in carrying out whatever mission President Barack Obama dec...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Maybe it was the spectacle of all those discredited neocons gathering in Washington to urge him to stay the course in Afghanistan. Or maybe it was the...
Rep. Neil Abercrombie | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
I do not believe that military victory in Afghanistan is simply a matter of reappearing with enough troops and the right military strategy.
Richard A. Clarke | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
Afghanistan is not a numbers game. The issue is whether we are pursuing a strategy that defines our goals and tailors our means to them.
Rep. Jane Harman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Success in Afghanistan is essential; the United States has invested too many troops and too much treasure to fail. But raising troop levels is the wrong place to start the discussion of how to move forward.
AP | KEN THOMAS and LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Key Senate Democrats signaled Friday that any push by President Barack Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan is likely to hit re...
Washington Independent | Posted 09.05.2009 | World
If Gen. Stanley McChrystal proposes, as expected, an increase in U.S. troops for the Afghanistan war, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) is "likely to oppose...
washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut and Greg Jaffe | Posted 10.31.2009 | World