edited by: Kate,
Tennessee Editor
Rep. Jim Cooper’s just asking:
“It’s a little discouraging that both men are on their third, fourth or fifth tours of duty in that country. You kinda wonder what they were thinking earlier on, why we did not have a better plan for the last eight years. But the key [...]
From a Quinnipiac University National Poll:
Public support for the war in Afghanistan is up nine percentage points in the last three weeks, as American voters say 57 - 35 percent that fighting the war is the right thing to do. Approval of President Barack Obama’s handling of the war [...]
The Greatest Generation Should be Ashamed of Us Today
America No Longer Has the WILL to WIN!
by J. D. Longstreet
As I considered President Obama’s words concerning the war in Afghanistan a few days ago, I found myself embarrassed by them. To realize Obama had no intention of ‘winning” [...]
After President Obama's recent speech announcing the deployment of 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, there has been a jump in speculation as to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. Is Osama bin Laden dead or alive? Where is he? Will America ever catch him?
But he’s having problems understanding the President’s Afghanistan plan:
Senators from both parties confused by President Obama’s Afghanistan war plan pressed administration officials on Thursday to clarify the plan to surge troop levels and then begin withdrawing them in 18 months on the second consecutive day of hearings about the [...]
From Daniel Larison:
The trouble with Chaffetz’s brand of “antiwar” stance is that he conceives of a “withdrawal” from Afghanistan being a prelude to the perpetual use of air strikes and targeted assassinations. His alternative of “going big” and eliminating strict rules of engagement is a pose of “freeing” the [...]
Pelosi Rejects War Surtax Proposal
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has all but killed a proposal by senior House Democrats to levy a tax on nearly all Americans to pay for the Afghanistan war.
Pelosi, speaking at her weekly press briefing Thursday on Capitol Hill, said she was “not in support” [...]
In the opinion of Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman, President Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday night on the war in Afghanistan was deliberately timed to block the Christian message of the "Peanuts" television Christmas special.
Wiseman made the statements on his Facebook page, where he declared Obama to be a Muslim.' [...]
“We need to support the president and support the policy. He’s the one that made the policy, and certainly (we need to) support the troops,” Roe added.
Roe, who reiterated that he views the Afghanistan conflict through Vietnam-era eyes, said Obama basically had two choices: “Go big or [...]
From the Commercial Appeal:
In the opinion of Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman, President Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday night on the war in Afghanistan was deliberately timed to block the Christian message of the “Peanuts” television Christmas special.
Russell Wiseman
Russell Wiseman
Wiseman made the statements on his Facebook page, where he [...]
Aaron Blake reports:
Democrats insist they knew about Tanner’s decision for weeks, and Tanner himself said the pressure from the GOP almost caused him to reconsider his retirement. But the fact that the story was leaked during President Barack Obama’s nationally televised Afghanistan address suggests they are genuinely concerned about [...]
NASHVILLE -National Guard units from throughout Tennessee, to include the state's largest unit, are scheduled to depart this week and next week for pre-mobilization training sites as the first leg of a deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Their departure represents over 3,000 men and women and brings the total [...]
In President Obama's (rambling) speech on Afghanistan last night, he clearly defined America's goal in Afghanistan thusly: "I set a goal that was narrowly defined as disrupting, dismantling, and defeating al Qaeda and its extremist allies, and pledged to better coordinate our military and" [...] In a typical suburban hotel meeting room just outside of Nashville, more than 50 elite Ft. Campbell soldiers trained Tuesday night for their latest mission in Afghanistan.
They don’t wear the camouflage uniform that the world has become accustomed to seeing.
These majors, captains and platoon leaders [...]
