President Obama to Outline new Afghan war strategy Live Streaming Video LIVE C-SPAN ... home. These are the resources that we need to seize the initiative, while building the Afghan capacity that can allow for a responsible transition of our forces out of Afghanistan ... 39;ll increase our ability to train competent Afghan security forces and to partner with them so that more Afghans can get into the fight ...

... remain in Afghanistan for the long haul. Far from being engaged in Afghan peacekeeping -- the Europeans are doing much of that - our troops are effectively guarding ... legitimize US military occupation of Afghanistan and assist US in The War Against Terrorism. So this puppet funded, supported, and legitimized ... U.S. full story here Obama details Afghan war plan, troop increases - White ...

... , I'd believe that the timing of President Obama's Afghan War surge announcement was conveniently related to the ... than fiscal pressures caused by pouring requisite billions into a war in "our vital national interest" involving the ... epiphany to surge U.S. involvement in the eight-year long Afghan War, I might find these sentiments quite believable. Instead, I choose to believe ...

... as invaders and occupiers, and the resistance they encounter has nothing to do with international terrorism. This war is futile, and now doomed to failure. There is no military solution to the problems that ... support anti-war candidates of any party in the 2010 elections. If you are still waging the Afghan war in 2011, we will be forced to seriously consider backing an explicitly anti-war primary ...

... in Afghanistan in the context of history. He reminded his audience that the US did not seek the Afghan war, but the world joined together with the US to recognize the justice and necessity of the ... , in 2001. He spoke of the US finding a moral cause that motivates its will to wage war, however reluctantly, in a far-off, intensely poor country, and to do so only as an expression of the commitment to ...

... decision, Obama will acknowledge that he “owns this war.” I have probably said something similar myself in commentary about the strategy review process. But the more I think about it, the more I think that this insight is misleading in a fundamental way. Obama may well think that he does not yet own the Afghan war and will only own it once he finally decides this issue. But in truth ...

... 34,000 troops to Afghanistan as part of his soon-to-be-announced Afghan War plan. <div style=" ... about nation-building? Has it been about bringing freedom and democracy to the Afghan people? Has it been about regional stability and security? Or has it been about something murkier, ... to oil and gas? This lack of clarity has led many of the war's early supporters, including me, to turn ...

... officially announce his plans. It would be his second escalation of U.S. forces in the war-torn Islamic country since he came to power in January. ... al Qaeda elements and stabilizing the country while training Afghan forces. The expected new troop deployment would increase the ... the Army has borne an extremely heavy burden in the Afghan war, so the school is an important symbol. The officials said ...

... are 30,000 more American soldiers needed in Afghanistan? That's for starters. If the Afghan war ever made sense - it never did to me: I opposed it in '01 and continue to - ... will begin to come home. These are the resources that we need to seize the initiative, while building the Afghan capacity that can allow for a responsible transition of our forces out of Afghanistan.So Obama's goal ...

... in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the failure to properly resource the Afghan War. It looks at the expansion of Taliban influence over time, and ... in casualties. It also examines problems in the US funding efforts once the war intensified, and in the way in which NATO/ISAF and the Provincial Reconstruction Teams ... , 21 August 2009 Critical failures in resourcing Afghan and Iraq wars, 11 August 2009 The ...

... present' Official: Obama Rejects All Afghan War Options Fox News 11 ... misgivings about sending in new troops while there are still so many questions about the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Obama is still close ... additional troops are sent to Afghanistan and what the timeline would be for their presence in the war zone, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity ...

... article salivating over both the inevitable pushback against Obama on the Afghan War issue from the Democratic Party's ... Obama's announcement is sure to reawaken the anti-war movement, Martin said, the protests won't be as intense ... demonstration in years -- really since the beginning of the current Irag war -- there have been some protests. Antiwar and peace groups have not disappeared, ...

Poll: Majority in US now see Afghan war as not worth fighting | Raw Story: "Support for the US mission in ... has slipped to a new low, with 44 percent of Americans now saying the war there has been worth the cost, according to a recently released poll." ... back home" for the mission. Only 44 percent now say the war in Afghanistan has been worth fighting -- the fewest since early 2007 ...

... that Obama’s delay signals that “the war has been lost” and that nothing the president now does will “make any ... Afghan baby, how he splits the difference between McChrystal and Biden. Because the war has been lost,” Thompson said on his radio show today. ... : Thompson Dropping Out Of Presidential Race Public Opposition To Afghan War Hits An All-Time High Fred Thompson ...

FOX News, “Obama to Announce Afghan War Strategy Decision on Dec. 1” &# ... to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, whose concerns about support forces to help the Afghan military stand up on its won were seen as critical in delaying a final decision by ... him to clarify when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government and under what conditions. As White House press secretary ...