Afghanistan

Posted on Tue, Jan. 03, 2012   http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/03/v-print/3350801/the-iraq-war-was-our-greatest.html Iraq War Was the United States’ Greatest Foreign Policy Disaster  By [...]

  BY MADELYN HOFFMAN GUEST COLUMNIST Bloomfield Life, December 28, 2011   As 2011 ends, it is time to reflect upon continuing U.S. involvement in overseas wars and the impact that involvement has [...]

Bring the war dollars home By Betsy Crites Herald-Sun guest columnist The withdrawal from Iraq is to be celebrated like a migraine that finally subsides. It is what the majority of Americans have [...]

In 2001, when Congress authorized an open-ended “war on terror,” there was only one member of Congress brave enough to stand up and say “no.” That’s why it’s [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q9LdLN42WJ4] The Senate spent much of this week debating the 2012 Defense Authorization bill, plowing through a slew of [...]

The Senate voted by voice vote this week in favor of Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D-OR) bipartisan amendment  on behalf of 21 Senators to the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year [...]

Earlier today, the US Senate passed Sen. Jeff Merkley’s amendment requiring a plan for an accelerated withdrawal from Afghanistan by a voice vote. No matter how loudly Sen. John McCain [...]

Thank you to all of you who took action last week urging your senators to cosponsor the Merkley amendment for a quicker withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Senate is back in session this week, and [...]

Can you imagine US troops on the ground in Afghanistan in 2024? That’s what’s on the table right now in discussions between the US and Afghan governments. Now is the time to send a message to the [...]

Less than 1% of the nation serves in our Armed Forces, and like many of you mentioned in your comments on the Iraq War, we are deeply gratified that many of them are returning home this winter. [...]