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But Iraq war opponents should not fool themselves; so are Afghanistan and dozens of other Muslim grievances, from our support for Israel to Russia’s campaign in Chechnya to the publication of ...
In reality, Iraq and Afghanistan are the same war. That’s how the Bush administration has seen Afghanistan from the start; not as a defensive response to 9/11, ...
U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites sparked sharply divergent reactions. Those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan have a ...
Afghanistan, of course, is not Iraq. We forgot that between 2002 and 2006, when the media strangely considered it the “good,” necessary, and quiet war to distinguish it from the far more ...
Afghanistan May Trump Iraq in War Debate. As troop deaths surge, Afghanistan is moving to center stage. By ABC News. July 3, 2008, 8:07 PM. July 7, 2008— -- As John McCain and Barack Obama ...
Afghanistan Is Not Iraq. Bush insists Iraq and Afghanistan are the same war, but unless we separate them we'll lose them both, write Lawrence Korb and Caroline Wadhams.
They were once soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now they may soon lead the nation’s national security team. Trump’s cabinet nominees are all veterans who have different views of war than ...
• On Afghanistan, Americans by a nearly identical 52%-38% say the U.S. has mostly failed to achieve its goals. In 2011, a month after Osama bin Laden was killed, a majority predicted the war ...
And the original sin of the war in Afghanistan was going to war in Iraq. In September 2001, when Joe Biden was the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I was the policy adviser for the ...
With the final military withdrawal from Afghanistan underway, a few state legislators in the U.S. are reconsidering the use of their National Guard units for undeclared foreign wars, like the ...
The U.S. has committed to pay the health care, disability, burial and other costs for about 4 million Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans, which are projected to amount to more than $2 trillion.
And as the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan nears the one year mark, Brown University's Costs of War Project report details just how deadly they've been. It counts how many people have been killed by ...