Obama Afghanistan Troops

US Troops Hopeful Obama Plan Will Wind Down War

AP | DENIS GRAY | Posted 12.02.2009 | World


FORWARD OPERATING BASE AIRBORNE, Afghanistan — U.S. service members in Afghanistan said President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 more tr...

Obama's Afghanistan Plan: 30,000 Troops, No Endless Committment

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE and STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics


WEST POINT, N.Y. — Declaring "our security is at stake," President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the long war in Af...

Sam Stein

Levin Warns Against Time Lines For U.S. Forces In Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics


The extent to which President Obama will receive Democrat support for escalating military forces in Afghanistan seems directly tied to his insistence ...

Newsweek: Strange Bedfellows Oppose Afghanistan Escalation

newsweek.com | Katie Connolly | Posted 10.07.2009 | World


If President Obama decides to endorse Gen. Stanley McChrystal's plan to send tens of thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, he'll find an unli...

Gates: Afghanistan Troop Levels Could Rise Again

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 08.16.2009 | World


CHICAGO — The Pentagon's chief said Thursday he could send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan this year than he'd initially expected and is conside...

Preempting A Progressive Split On Afghanistan

The Washington Independent | Posted 03.21.2009 | World


As the Obama administration spends the next two months reviewing strategy options for Afghanistan, a progressive organization is attempting to cobble ...

Sam Stein

Afghan Ambassador Trumpets Obama Agenda

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics


Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United States trumpeted major portions of Barack Obama's approach towards his country on Tuesday, marking the second t...