What happened in Iraq last year, and last month particularly, was really good news. We can’t let that over shadow the bad news that has come out of Afghanistan. 2009 was the deadliest year for U.S. forces in the 8+ year war: */ Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov […]
Can we have more of this please? There are numerous other such public statements that explicitly state we are at war. The difference is this: President Obama doesn’t need to beat his chest to prove it, and – unlike the last Administration – we are not at war with a tactic (“terrorism”), we at war […]
This is something I never thought I would see: Senate Republicans said Thursday that they would try to filibuster a massive Pentagon bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an unusual move that several acknowledged was an effort to delay President Obama’s health-care legislation. Late into the night, Democrats emerged from a huddle […]
Last night Sean Hannity went on a tirade complaining that President Obama took three months to decide on his troop increase and even said that this is the first increase the President has committed to Afghanistan. Hannity somehow seems to forget the 17,000 additional troops that were ordered to Afghanistan only three weeks into the […]
“The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest pace possible – so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers. They will increase our ability to train competent Afghan Security Forces, and to partner with them so that more Afghans […]
As the hour of President Obama’s speech approaches we are starting to get leaked details. In those details we find out that he will be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan over the next 6 months. He is also calling for an end to the war within three years. Hopefully that is an obtainable timeline, […]
Very powerful, especially this line: With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics I have always broke with the rest of the left on Afghanistan, but I do believe that the situation requires less troops – not more. This […]
Needless to say, President Obama is coming under fire for his trip to Asia this weekend. The right really hates seeing a President travel, well unless that President is going for months on end to play cowboy in Texas. While Obama has traveled a lot, he has also used those trips to help strengthen U.S. […]
That is the new meme emerging following the two gubernatorial losses last night for Democrats. I seemed to have missed it where Obama was on the ballot, but that’s what all the talking heads want us to think. Let’s take a look at Creigh Deeds and the Virginia race. Actually have a look at Think […]
The new NBC poll has a little bit of good news for the Democrats. When asked how they approve the Democrats in Congress, here is how they respond: They get a net positive of 42, as compared to the Republicans, who have a net positive of only 28: But when it comes to Afghanistan, the […]