…we must “change the conditions of hopelessness and resentment that provide fertile ground for terrorist recruitment”. The list of accomplishments include “the terrorist camps in Afghanistan have been destroyed” and…

…President speaks clearly – something the President noted twice last night during the debate. But note the few times the President noted Afghanistan – it was always in connection with…

…striking at Al Qaeda in Afghanistan that were developed during the Clinton administration], they were focused, as Secretary Rumsfeld told us, on creating a twenty-first-century military. At the Joint Chiefs…

…ally. “But I do know that it was Afghanistan that was on my mind. And I didn’t really start focusing on Iraq until later on.” I do give Bush some…

…to the al Qaeda attack, it was a map of Afghanistan that was rolled out on the table. It was Afghanistan that became the focus of the American response. And…

…in five years.) Some of that $50b is for Afghanistan, so this is an upper estimate. On the other hand, the White House’s estimates of the costs of things are…

…Of course, Slate also notes that the last “Uniting for Peace” resolution was a call in 1980 for the USSR to withdraw from Afghanistan–and we know how well that worked….

…to be those who do God’s work. On the international front, we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. Is the region safer? Are we? It is obvious Iran has benefited, as have…

…“the most heartbreaking being the missed opportunity of the Arab Spring,” even as Hiatt notes that he still has troops in Afghanistan and has droned after al Qaeda and the…

…leave Afghanistan) and instilling a general feeling that it was, indeed, morning in America and that the US was back in business. These were accomplishments that Reagan’s opposition sought to…