Published Dec. 3, 2009
Obama can't win, when it comes to the war on terror. He can't "win" the war in Afghanistan, since there's no clear-cut way to declare victory. He can't pull out, since that will open up a growing vacuum of terrorism that's been simmering since America opened up a second front against no one in particular in Iraq. Now, the left and the right are fuming.
Published Aug. 5, 2005
In less than a year, Bernie and Kathy Hintzke have reached more than 5,000 soldiers with their project, Operation: Take a Soldier to the Movies. A movie package is sent to each soldier in the military units in Iraq, Afghanistan and other war zones that have requested to take part in the program.
U.S.special operations forces have killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad Pakistan,ending a worldwide search for the head of al-Qaeda and the instigator of the9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. President Barack Obama announcedthe successful mission, noting that "justice has been done...
The just concluded international conference on Afghanistan provided a welcome opportunity for UN and NATO leaders to demonstrate cohesion as well as declare continuing commitment to defeating the Taliban, al Qaeda and associated groups in that country and the wider South Asia region. &...
“’The Hurt Locker’ and Vietnam War Precedents”by Arthur I. CyrThe success at the Academy Awards of ‘The Hurt Locker,’ a gripping drama about bomb disposal in Iraq, doubtless will spawn a spate of Hollywood war films. Some of these – you can bet on this &n...
Afghanistan developments are grim. On September 2, a Taliban suicide bomber killed the nation’s deputy chief of intelligence, Abdullah Laghmani, and more than twenty others. Laghmani helped lead the National Directorate of S...
Gen. Stanley McChrystal has been unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new commander in Afghanistan, and has followed up immediately by granting media interviews. Both developments are very significant for reasons that reach beyond the rising levels of Allied troops and violence in that...
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