…the United States of America. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to…

…for many years ahead. Then the stock market collapsed, the country was attacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, and costly wars unfolded in Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s on the…

…in peacekeeping operations who was the Bush administration’s special envoy to Afghanistan, said in an interview today that the United States might need 300,000 to 500,000 troops to maintain stability…

…an exclamation point on this festering problem. To see where Iraq seems to be headed, here’s a grim story about Afghanistan, illustrating exactly where the Bush administration’s half-hearted nation-building leads……

…on economic growth and defense issues: a strong military (notwithstanding Bush’s rhetoric, well up to the tasks in Afghanistan and Iraq), balanced budgets, welfare reform, and generally promoting business and…

That’s Nice Washington — The White House quickly backpedaled Thursday on Pentagon plans to cut the combat pay of the 157,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan after disclosure of…

…favorite sons Clinton and Gore in 3 successive presidential elections, supported the wars in Kosovo and in Afghanistan, aren’t fond of bureaucrats whether they work for government or the corporations,…

…down in Afghanistan, the Unites States was arming the mujahidin. Similarly, in the Korean War, the Soviet Union and China were arming the North Koreans. And in the Vietnam War,…

…exist, and if it were up to the Greens, America would not have even defended itself against a barbarous attack by going into Afghanistan. Have at him, and hard, from…

…has a disproportionately small impact on tax revenues. Spinsanity’s got a lot more, including some additional analysis of what portion of the deficit is attributable to Iraq and Afghanistan. AB…