News Source: Fox News
| about 1 month ago
Top Republican senators escalated their call Sunday for President Obama to grant Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops in Afghanistan, and one prominent Democrat warned that a failure to do so could jeopardize U.S. forces. The Obama...
News Source: The Hill
| about 1 month ago
McCain was asked Sunday on CNN’s "State of the Union" if American forces could prevail with a surge of fewer than 40,000 troops. “I do not,” responded McCain, Obama’s GOP rival for the presidency in 2008. “I think the great danger now is...
News Source: Star Tribune
| about 1 month ago
Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama will make a huge error if he does not substantially increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The Arizona senator, who was Obama's Republican opponent for the White House last fall, said it is...
News Source: The Journal Gazette
| about 1 month ago
Thousands of foreign fighters have come to Afghanistan to bolster the Taliban insurgency, the countrys defense minister said Saturday as he called for more international troops. He made those remarks as the U.S. debates whether to substantially...
News Source: Russia Today
| about 1 month ago
Critics say it was inappropriate since the US president is considering deploying more troops to one of America's foreign wars. Throughout 2009, Afghanistan looked like an authentic war zone: bullets fired, IED’s exploding and an increasing number...
News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 month ago
Sen. John McCain says the coverage of his exchange with President Obama at a White House meeting last week has been vastly overblown. "There was no sharp exchange whatsoever," he said in a telephone interview. "To say that there was anything to it --...