News Source: The Nation
| about 1 month ago
President Obama, who is under pressure from the Pentagon and defense contractors to surge 40,000 additional U.S. troops into occupied Afghanistan, will meet Tuesday with members of Congress to discuss the sorry state of the mission and its uncertain...
News Source: Virginian-Pilot Online
| about 1 month ago
Sen. John McCain says Obama administration policy decisions in Afghanistan shouldn't be based on viewing the insurgent Taliban and the al-Qaida terrorist network as separate and distinct issues. Interviewed Tuesday morning on NBC's "Today" program,...
News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
If it means finding more resources and putting more energy in, let’s do it...The plea was rebuffed, although the Prime Minister repeatedly brushed off questions about it when he appeared before the Commons liaison committee in July...The final...
News Source: Bradenton Herald
| about 1 month ago
In the morning, he'll visit the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington and meet with top officials there...Later in the day, he's invited more than 30 members of Congress to a discussion of U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The group...
News Source: The Washington Times
| about 1 month ago
Only a wreck on the highway is more exciting than watching a president argue with himself. Not even the gruesome sight of presidential gore can overcome the instinct to stare at the gloomy and ponder the morbid. Barack Obama, like the "progressives"...
News Source: CNN
| about 1 month ago
The flag-draped coffins of at least four U.S. soldiers killed during a weekend onslaught against a U.S. military outpost in Afghanistan where scheduled to arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Tuesday morning, the military said...Thomson of...