Obama War in Afghanistan

How to Forget on Memorial Day

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.24.2012

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Quiz Americans and a surprising number undoubtedly won't have thought about the "memorial" in Memorial Day at all -- especially now that it's largely a marker of the start of summer and an excuse for cookouts.

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America's 23-Year War

Anthony Gregory | Posted 05.24.2012

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Obama has long claimed that he would bring an end to the war will end by 2014, which is still way too long to wait. As for sticking around for another 12 years, the very idea should be maddening to anyone.

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The Afghan Syndrome

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 04.10.2012

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While the Afghan War has always had its many non-Vietnam aspects -- geographical, historical, geopolitical, and in terms of casualties -- anyone could have had a Vietnam field day with the present situation.

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Radio-in-a-Box: Afghanistan's New Warrior-DJs

Sam Jacobson | Posted 09.12.2011

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Our civil affairs Marine needed to speak with the sharwal (town mayor) at our base, Combat Outpost (COP) Rankel, and a public radio message was the best way to get him there. There's no tweeting in Safar, Garmser District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

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Barack Gorbachev: Adjusting To The Global Reality

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 08.27.2011

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Like Gorbachev, Obama and much of the foreign policy establishment in Washington seem to cling to the fantasy that the U.S. can muddle through towards victory in Afghanistan.

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Lose-Lose

Terence Smith | Posted 08.23.2011

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There was no way that President Obama could win with his speech last night on Afghanistan. His compromise drawdown -- 10,000 U.S. troops by the end ...

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Key Senator To Obama: Withdraw At Least 15,000 Troops From Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has put forward a baseline number of troops that the president must announ...

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Why President Obama Should End the Afghanistan War

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama recognized that the Iraq war was an ugly and shameful page in U.S. history and that millions of Americans were furious and frustrated by it. The same can be said of the Afghan war. The DNC said as much.

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Obama's War Review Says Taliban, Al-Qaida Have Been Diminished

AP/The Huffington Post | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's expansion of the war in Afghanistan has eroded the power of the al-Qaida terrorists who attacked Amer...

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Major Anti-War Protest Planned

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even as President Obama on Thursday attempts to put a good face on the war in Afghanistan, Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and several dozen...

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General Petraeus Supports Third World America

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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By the time Petraeus' melded version of foreign and war policy comes to an end, whenever that is, we're guaranteed one thing: There's not going to be much left that's recognizably American about America.

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Afghanistan War Initiative Losing Support From Liberal Lawmakers

POLITICO | Jonathan Allen and Marin Cogan | Posted 05.25.2011

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As President Barack Obama reaffirms his Afghanistan policy, he's also emboldening critics in Congress who think he should use a shakeup in commanding ...

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Caution: Surge Ahead ... and Slide Back

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

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It seems that we've taken yet another step backward with this new headlong offensive aimed at "peace and prosperity" -- and no amount of linguistic manipulation toward "forward movement" can effectively counter that actuality.

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The Generals' Revolt

Rolling Stone | Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 05.25.2011

In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...

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It May Have Been a Nobel Peace Prize Speech, but Obama Is No Pacifist

Richard N. Haass | Posted 05.25.2011

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This was a supremely realistic statement about the presence of evil in the world, the limitations of international institutions, the need to talk to tyrants, and the unavoidability of war.

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Religion Must Be Part of the Solution in Afghanistan

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 05.25.2011

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We do have a moral responsibility -- not to mention a strategic interest -- in not abandoning the Afghan people. Now we must engage religion to be part of the solution.

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Inside Obama's First Afghan Military Campaign (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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VBS TV --- In the summer of 2009, Ben Anderson traveled to the Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan to document the first military campaign ordere...

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Murtha To Obama: No More Troops

Foreign Policy | Posted 05.25.2011

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House defense spending cardinal John Murtha, an early bellwether of congressional opposition to the Iraq war, has made his strongest comments yet oppo...

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Gates: Victory In Iraq And Afghan Wars Challenge But Achievable (VIDEO)

Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a wide-ranging interview with Al Jazeera's Abderrahim Foukara, Gates spoke about the US strategy for peace in Afghanistan facing a "war of necessit...

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Obama's Meaningless War

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Meaningless is the right term for the Afghanistan war, because our bloody attempt to conquer this foreign land has nothing to do with its stated purpose of enhancing our national security.

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ReThinking Charlie Wilson's War: the Afghan War that Keeps On Taking

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The US will spend more on the war in Afghanistan next year than it will in Iraq. So I thought it would be interesting to take another look at Charlie Wilson's War.

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Long War Needs Long Peace Movement

Tom Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Long War will fail because the US is overextended militarily and economically, and the world is more multi-polar than uni-polar. The world does not share the US Long War agenda.

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New Afghanistan Commander Ran Secret "Executive Assassination Ring" Under Cheney

Tom Dispatch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yes, Stanley McChrystal is the general from the dark side (and proud of it). So the recent sacking of Afghan commander General David McKiernan after l...

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Does the Afghanistan War Represent Graveyard Thinking?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why is America becoming so deeply involved in the mess that is Afghanistan?

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Salt in the Wound: The Case for Compensation

Erica Gaston | Posted 05.25.2011

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While troops say they have an "open door" to Afghan civilians, Afghans find that door is barricaded by barbed wire and heavily armed, hostile men.

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