Nancy Pelosi: Barack Obama Must 'Make His Case' For Afghanistan Funds
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that it's up to President Barack Obama to persuade reluctant Democrats to fund his Afghanistan troop buildup...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that it's up to President Barack Obama to persuade reluctant Democrats to fund his Afghanistan troop buildup...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
BRUSSELS — NATO allies will bolster the American troop surge in Afghanistan by sending at least 7,000 soldiers of their own, officials said Frid...
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
Clinton said the three huge problems that exist are inequality, instability and unsustainability, and he focused on the need for energy independence to create jobs.
Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's response to a line in President Obama's speech on Aghanistan is drawing a sharp response from both the Whit...
Megan Carpentier | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Is a graceful withdrawal and a less unstable puppet government worth more American lives? Are those lives really worth that "success"?
Charles Butler | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration has to stop campaigning to get down to governing. All of the campaign-like speeches are becoming quite transparent to the American people and foreigners alike.
Posted 12.02.2009 | World
By C.M. Sennott, GlobalPost BOSTON -- Standing before cadets at West Point but speaking to a wide and skeptical audience in America, Afghanistan an...
AP | DEBORAH SEWARD | Posted 12.02.2009 | World
PARIS — European leaders and top diplomats hailed President Barack Obama's speech defining the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, but few countri...
Tom Gregory | Posted 12.03.2009 | Comedy
Obama announced that he will deploy 30,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan, promising to bring them home just in time to vote in the next presidential election.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Dick Cheney ought to look in the mirror before he accuses President Obama of weakness or indecision on Afghanistan, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer ...
Belleruth Naparstek | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living
Positive psychology may be worthwhile for corporate team building and personal growth, but does it have the mojo to counter the profound despair and disorientation that comes from the horrors of combat?
Sadie Nardini | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living
When it comes to their own, bliss-filled circles, many yogis feel right at home. Bring a foreign element to the door however, and you'll see that often, this sanctuary is then revealed as the dogma-house it really is.
Cheryle Jackson | Posted 11.30.2009 | Chicago
It's time for America to bring our troops and money home. This should be the last holiday season our troops are separated from their families.
AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A wedding was called off because international troops killed the groom. A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a p...
Jon Soltz | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Palin's saying Obama wasn't acknowledging the sacrifices of our troops can mean only two things: either her mind exists on an entirely different planet, or she knows she's being completely disingenuous.
Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House braced for a tough sell of President Barack Obama's long-awaited decision on whether to commit tens of thousands of...
Belleruth Naparstek | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
It's good to see public discussion about posttraumatic stress and concern for the health and welfare of our troops. But I don't think the events at Fort Hood had anything to do with posttraumatic stress.
Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
When Brittany and Robbie Berquist were just pre-teens in 2005, they read about an Army reservist who faced a $7,600 bill for making calls home from Ir...
ABC News | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
Rates of PTSD, which may or may not have played a role in Hasan's case, along with traumatic brain injuries, are soaring, and are a leading cause of s...
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Whether it's amputees, folks struggling with PTSD, outdoor enthusiasts, or just those looking to swap war stories, every vet can find a home on the IAVA's social network for veterans.
McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 11.07.2009 | World
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it unti...
Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
In the wake of the massacre there will be a tendency to say one man snapped. The truth is anyone could have snapped -- and we need to de-stigmatize PTSD and mental health before someone else does.
Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
2,950. That's the number that echoes throughout Rep. Eric Massa's (D-N.Y.) five minute speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, as he fer...
Douglas MacKinnon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
For us, the troops are invisible. They don't exist. They don't count. For the folks I speak with from the military, it really has come down to, "Let us go big or let us come home."
AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
KABUL — President Hamid Karzai effectively secured a second term Sunday when his only challenger dropped out of the race, and the Obama administ...
McClatchy | Posted 12.17.2009 | World