A resurgent Al Qaeda is in Pakistan's western tribal region, alongside Afghanistan's Eastern boundary, apparently connected with the Taliban forces that are making trouble for us in Afghanistan (and possibly elsewhere - remember 9/11? These are the guys who actually attacked us). So - I'm not for gi ...
A suicide bomb attack on the Indian Embassy in the Afghan capital bore all the hallmarks of a foreign intelligence agency, Afghanistan’s presidential spokesman said on Tuesday in a likely reference to Pakistan.: Afghanistan has accused Pakistani agents of being behind the April assassination attempt ...
When this nation invaded Iraq, some of us spoke out against the war on moral grounds - the argument for war relied on a new, morally-dubious, principle of "preventive" war, and on equally dubious assertions about Saddam's nukes and his alleged role in the 9/11 attacks. Some of us saw the war as an e ...
For too long, those of us who support a drawdown in Iraq have offered a laundry list of reasons without a unifying rational. With more than 4,000 American fatalities and tens of thousands of life-altering injuries, it has cost too many lives; at $5,000 per second, it is costing too much money; with ...
is the number of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from post traumatic stress: About 300,000 U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, but about half receive no care, an independent study said on Thursday. The study by t ...
