Are We Really Fighting Them Over There So We Don't Have to Fight Them Here?
The tragedy at Fort Hood last week raises the question of whether we are indeed fighting in Afghanistan in order to protect ourselves from having to do so on our own soil.
The tragedy at Fort Hood last week raises the question of whether we are indeed fighting in Afghanistan in order to protect ourselves from having to do so on our own soil.
Steve Clemons | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Zinni's proposals are provocative and substantive. I have asked someone at the Department of State about possibly responding. Hopefully this will happen in the near term.
Washington Post | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
Gen. David Petraeus disclosed today that American commanders have requested the deployment of an additional 10,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan next yea...
Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.20.2009 | World
WASHINGTON, Mar 20 (IPS) - U.S. Special Operations forces in Afghanistan, whose commando raids and airstrikes against suspected Taliban targets have...
Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.14.2009 | World
WASHINGTON, Mar 5 (IPS) - The arguments for maintaining a major U.S. combat force in Iraq at least through 2011, escalating U.S. military involvemen...
Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.14.2009 | World
WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (IPS) - CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus and Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I) Commander General Ray Odierno have submitte...
Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 03.05.2009 | World
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (IPS) - CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Oba...
Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
"The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East resigned Tuesday amid speculation about a rift over U.S. policy in Iran," the AP reports. Defens...
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics