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Labels: Armed Forces. Freedom, Holidays, Memorial Day, Withdrawal

President Hamid Karzai demanded Thursday that the United States pull back from combat outposts and confine its troops to military bases in Afghanistan, an apparent response to Sunday's shooting rampage by a U.S. staff sergeant.

Labels: Afghanistan, Good Idea, Hamid Karzai, Withdrawal

Labels: Cartoons, Iraq, Sunday Funny, Veterans, Withdrawal

When they close the main PX , the war is over.

Labels: Col. Pat Lang, Iraq, US Military, Withdrawal

Labels: Afghanistan, Chart of the day, Polls, Withdrawal

I think the way to get out of Afghanistan is, more than anything else, to leave. That is, not to set conditions for leaving, but to just leave.

Labels: Afghanistan, Jonathan Bernstein, Me Too, Withdrawal

Labels: Afghanistan, Defense Budget, Norm Dicks, WA-6, Withdrawal

If we really want to send bin Laden not just to his death, but also to his defeat, may I suggest that we reverse all of that right now. End the wars, bring the troops home, make the rich pay for this mess, and restore our privacy and due process rights that used to distinguish us from any other country.

Labels: Civil Liberties, Gordon, Michael Moore, Osama bin Laden, Withdrawal

Labels: Afghanistan, Cartoon Of The Day, Political Cartoons, Withdrawal

"On behalf of you and the Afghan people, today I would like to respectfully, and not arrogantly, ask Nato and the US forces to stop their operations in our land."

Labels: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Me Too, Withdrawal

For the second year in a row, more American soldiers—both enlisted men and women and veterans—committed suicide than were killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Excluding accidents and illness, 462 soldiers died in combat, while 468 committed suicide.

Labels: Afghanistan, Army, Iraq, Suicide, Withdrawal

"There is nothing strategically important about this terrain. We fight here because the enemy is here. The enemy fights here because we are here."

Labels: Afghaninam, Afghanistan, Joseph Ryan, Pech Valley, Withdrawal

"In evaluating the enemy strategy it is evident to me that he believes our Achilles heel is our resolve ... Your continued strong support is vital to the success of our mission ... Backed at home by resolve, confidence, patience, determination and continued support, we will prevail…












...in Vietnam over the Communist aggressor!"

General William Westmoreland, April 28, 1967

Labels: Afghaninam, Afghanistan, Vietnam, William Westmoreland, Withdrawal

“If I had to choose sides today, I’d choose the Taliban.”

Labels: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Quote of the Day, Withdrawal

The Defense Department's Medical Surveillance report from November examines "a large, widespread, and growing mental health problem among U.S. military members."

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The Army was hit hardest by the most common and long-lasting problems -- post-traumatic stress disorder, major depression, bipolar disorder, alcohol dependence and substance dependence, according to the report.

Labels: Army, Deployments, Mental Health, PTSD, Withdrawal

AFP - The NATO allies open a two-day summit Friday to back a 2014 target for ceding control over the bogged-down Afghan war to Kabul.

Labels: Afghanistan, NATO, Withdrawal

BAGHDAD — A string of bombings killed 37 people Sunday in Iraq's deadliest day since Aug. 31, when President Barack Obama said the U.S. military's seven-year-old combat mission there had ended.

…the 50,000 U.S. soldiers who remain in Iraq, far from merely "advising and assisting" Iraqi forces, as the Obama administration has described their new role, are still needed on the battlefields as insurgents try to exploit the diminished American military presence and the six-month political stalemate that's failed to produce a new Iraqi government since the country's March 7 elections.

Labels: "Combat Troops", Civilian fatalities, Combat, Iraq, Withdrawal

Frankly, establishing a government in a foreign country isn't a military objective. It just isn't.

Labels: Afghanistan, Military, Nation Building, Truth, Withdrawal

AP - Eight American troops died in attacks in southern Afghanistan, including a car bombing and gunfight outside a police compound in Kandahar, officials said Wednesday as the Taliban push back against a coalition effort to secure the volatile region.

Labels: Afghanistan, Afghanistan Fatalities, Withdrawal

Four U.S. service members were killed in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, NATO said, bringing the number of Americans killed in Afghanistan in November to 15.

Labels: Afghanistan, Afghanistan Fatalities, Withdrawal