News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
Zbigniew Brzezinski says that a central consideration for President Barack Obama, as he faces an agonizing choice over Afghanistan, is what happened to the Russians in the 1980s and after they were driven out in 1989...Few policy makers have studied...
News Source: Muncie Free Press
| about 1 month ago
The challenge of helping Afghanistan while also serving U.S. security goals includes four aspects: first, U.S. fear of more terrorist attacks mounted from the region, second, fear that other powers, such as Russia or Iran, could assume undue...
News Source: Press TV
| about 1 month ago
Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph, the British army commander warned of the "terrifying prospect" of defeat for international forces in Afghanistan, and pleaded for a troop surge in the country. "If al-Qaeda and the Taliban believe they have defeated...
News Source: Press TV
| about 1 month ago
Afghan war, US President Barack Obama has summoned his top commander in Afghanistan to a 25-minute meeting. Obama and General Stanley McChrystal met Saturday aboard Air Force One in Copenhagen to discuss the situation in the insurgency-hit...
News Source: Kiev Post
| about 1 month ago
Americans on a break from patrolling the Korengal Valley last April Over the next few weeks, Barack Obama must make the most difficult decision of his presidency to date: whether or not to send up to 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan, as his...
News Source: The Nation
| about 1 month ago
This post was researched and co-written by Andrea D'Cruz. Within a matter of months a majority of Americans have shifted from supporting to opposing the Afghanistan war as we approach the eighth anniversary of the start of the conflict. According to...