Democratic Senate candidate Elaine Marshall said today that she opposes President Barack Obama's move to send additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
"I acknowledge that there are no easy answers in Afghanistan and I respect the time and consideration that the president took in making his decision," Marshall [...]
U.S. Rep. David Price said the public debate over American policy in Afghanistan has been too narrowly focused on troop levels.
Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat, gave his perspective in a column that was published in The Charlotte Observer. Price recently led a delegation to Pakistan and [...]
Obama's rationale for spending another fifty or so billion dollars more in Afghanistan reminds me of the proud British red coats fighting and losing to a ragtag army of colonists in the American revolution. He is fighting a war from another century.
In his speech tonight, Obama used a [...]
President Obama tonight will make the case for pouring more resources into the sinkhole that is Afghanistan. He will argue that this action is a national security priority, worthy of many more lives and billions of dollars. But by all accounts, he will not devote any of his polished rhetoric [...]
Lively debate today at Daily Kos about Obama's performance. I believe this was triggered first by the epic FAIL emerging in healthcare reform, and then by Obama's intention to "finish the job" in Afghanistan, whatever the hell that means.
With so many Republican chickenhawks wanting to pour more money into the black hole of Afghanistan, Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin has taken a powerful and smart position on the matter:
[He] made it clear that he is absolutely opposed to sending any more U.S. troops to Afghanistan and says [...]
On recent trip to the Middle East, U.S. Rep. David Price said he was impressed in Pakistan and Afghanistan with a certain segment of their parliaments: women.
"We paid special attention to women members of parliament — who are a pretty aggressive group," said Price, a Chapel [...]
From politico.com comes this blog about Rep. David Obey (D-Wisconsin), who is the House Appropriations chairman (emphasis is mine):
‘If they ask for an increased troop commitment in Afghanistan, I am going to ask them to pay for it.’ Obey, a Democrat, made it clear that he is absolutely opposed [...]
As President Barack Obama continues to ponder the future of American troops in Afghanistan, U.S. Rep. David Price stressed this week that the matter isn’t just one for the military.
"Nobody thinks this should be a rushed decision – or a decision that should just be about the [...]
A recent post on the Political Animal, the blog of the Washington Monthly, cites a story in the Boston Review that explains just how horribly the Bush Administration treated many veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The story is long, but well worth the time to [...]
