Filed under: Deep Background, Oil SpillThe spill has put coverage of the war on a back burner. Considering how poorly the war is going, that's a good thing for the administration. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs&nbs...
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Is BP Oil Spill Helping Obama on Afghanistan War?
Democrats Begin Drive to Push Through Priorities Before Elections
Filed under: Senate, House, Democrats, Republicans, The Capitolist, 2010 Elections, Congress, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnellDemocrats face a tough political environment as they begin a big push to get their legislative agenda through Congress before the N...
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War Casualties and the Emptiness Left Behind
Filed under: Woman Up, Military, Memorial Day
Memorial Day essay on those who grieve for the fallen triggers an outpouring of pain and remembrance, even for those lost long, long ago.
Allegation: Some Contractors in Afghanistan Paying Protection Money to Taliban
Filed under: Afghanistan
Some international contractors, hired by the United States to build roads and other large construction projects in Afghanistan, are paying Taliban insurgents not to attack them and to act as their security guards, according to allegations filed with the Pentagon and other U.S. investigative...Read more »
Reserve Recall and Stop-Loss: The Army Just Can’t Get Enough of Sgt. Zemcik
Filed under: Afghanistan Journal
Robert Zemcik had just been whacked in the head when we sat down under a shade tree so I could hear his story.
Here in north-central Afghanistan, Sgt. Zemcik is a turret gunner on a Caiman armored truck, which puts him some 12 feet off the ground. Coming back...
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A Death in Afghanistan
Filed under: Afghanistan Journal
More than 5,000 American servicemen and women have been killed in action since 9/11. Some of them I knew.Why is this one hitting me so hard?
I think it's because Bill Cahir struggled so openly with the conflicting responsibilities of home and...
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Defense Secretary: McChrystal Report Won’t Request More Troops in Afghanistan
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, National Security, International
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, is set to submit an assessment on the war within the next few weeks. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said at least one thing would be missing from the...Read more »
Women in Combat: GI Jane Goes to Iraq and Afghanistan
Filed under: Iraq, Foreign Policy, Woman Up, International
Given the ever-shifting measures of success regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's heartening to know that one major battle is being won, decisively. Monday's New York Times reports that the fight to integrate female soldiers...Read more »
Children of War: An Afghan Boy and his Little Sister
Filed under: Afghanistan Journal
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- This war's wounded are collected from outposts around Afghanistan by C-130 aeromedical flights. The planes land here with the broken and lacerated bodies of young Americans, lying comatose in casts and bandages among their intravenous tubes and their...
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Thanks, Ted, From the War Zone
Filed under: Afghanistan Journal
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan -- Jouncing along a dusty road the other day in one of the huge armored trucks called MRAPs, built to protect troops from bomb blast, I had a sudden vision of Ted Kennedy's intense blue eyes boring into...Read more »
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