Never mind that al Qaeda barely existed before these wars became recruiting tools. ?We will disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda? in Afghanistan, the president promised, even though al Qaeda isn't there. Troop reductions in ...
"Open-ended war serves neither our interests nor the Afghan people's," Obama declared. But the calendar-vs.-conditions contradiction at the heart of U.S. Afghan policy remains: U.S. troops will begin to depart in less than a year, ...
Richard Wolf writes on defense spending trends: The monthly cost of the war in Afghanistan, driven by troop increases and fighting on difficult terrain, has topped Iraq costs for the first time since 2003 and shows no sign of letting up ...
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