Peters was opposed to what became the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 when it was first proposed. In October 2006 he wrote, "the notion of sending more U.S. troops is strategic and practical nonsense. Had the same voices demanded another ...
Yet, as Washington Post polling analyst Jennifer Agiesta pointed out to me, public interest in the war reached its low point this month, after peaking during Bush's troop surge in 2007, when the war was consistently rated as the most ...
America 's path to the electronic, troop-less war in Afghanistan follows upon three previous tactics. During 2004, the United States successfully pressured NATO allies to bear the fighting costs in Afghanistan . ...
So we can't simply afford to ignore the price of these wars. ? That's why our troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended?because the nation that I'm most interested in building is our own.? Indeed, by the deadline of July 2011 ...