South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham slammed President Obama as news broke Tuesday about the Obama administration’s plans to pull troops out of Afghanistan. “President Obama is repeating some of the same mistakes he made in Iraq” Graham tweeted, with
(AFP) US forces will complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2016, 15 years after the September 11 attacks, President Barack Obama was to say Tuesday. The United States invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban regime in Kabul
Former UN Ambassador John Bolton ripped the Obama administration’s leak of the name of the CIA station chief in Afghanistan, a blunder he says “could render a lot of intelligence operations ongoing in Afghanistan absolutely moot” on “American’s Newsroom” this
As President Obama toured the White House Science Fair, news broke that he would keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan after the end of the year even though he signaled that combat operations would end in 2014. After Obama finished talking
During CNN’s “Inside Politics” segment on Tuesday morning, New York Times columnist Jonathan Martin reacted to the White House’s unintentional outting of a CIA station chief in Afghanistan. According to Martin, that was indicative of everything going wrong for the
On Sunday, President Obama made a surprise appearance in Afghanistan after sneaking out of the White House on Saturday night. There, he spoke with Afghan president Hamid Karzai via phone, because Karzai refused to speak with Obama in person. Obama
To commemorate Memorial Day, President Barack Obama appeared at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and deliver remarks honoring our fallen servicemen and women and their families. Transcript as
Adm. William H. McRaven is the ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command. He is a Navy admiral and former commander of SEAL Team 3, acclaimed for leading the mission to find Osama bin Laden. On May 17, Adm. McRaven delivered the
Breitbart News announced that this year’s Troopathon-7 2014 will be will be broadcast live on Sirius XM Patriot Radio channel 125 on June 25 at 1 p.m. Pacific time from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. Troopathon has
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House inadvertently included the name of the top CIA official in Afghanistan on a list of participants in a military briefing with President Barack Obama that was distributed to reporters on Sunday, the Washington Post
President Obama, who paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, was snubbed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai when he turned down an invitation to meet with the President at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul. The two leaders’ relationship has
On Sunday, President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, the eve of the observed Memorial Day. Transcript as follows: OBAMA: Hello, Bagram! (Applause.) Well, I know it’s a little late, but I was in
On Sunday night’s PBS telecast of the annual National Memorial Day concert from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, actor Gary Sinise recognized the struggles of Marine Sgt. John Peck, who had suffered injuries from two IED explosions, one
NEW YORK (AP) — The nation is marking Memorial Day weekend with somber ceremonies, flag planting at cemeteries and parades. In New York, a Marines Corps chaplain will give a sermon Sunday at the Marble Collegiate College in Manhattan. Afterward,
President Obama secretly traveled overnight on Saturday to Afghanistan, landing at the Bagram Air Field on Sunday. According to the White House Press Pool, Obama is expected to join a Memorial Day weekend rally with U.S. troops. Country music star
Posted with permission from Brigadier General John E. Michel, USAF – Commanding General, NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan; Commander, 438 Air Expeditionary Wing. This article was co-written with my good friend, actor and activist Ken Wahl. “You can’t patch a wounded soul
From President Barack Obama’s May 24 weekly YouTube address: OBAMA: Hi, everybody. It’s Memorial Day weekend – a chance for Americans to get together with family and friends, break out the grill, and kick off the unofficial start of summer.
A review of job openings within the Veterans Administration is causing some to ask why the VA never bothered staffing up for what were easily predictable increases in service needs and it’s now blaming said increases for what amounts to
Pakistani troops, artillery and helicopter gunships hit targets in the country’s tribal areas on Thursday, officials said, in a second day of military action against Taliban insurgents. The attacks in North Waziristan, a militant stronghold on the Afghan border, destroyed
On March 31 a US Marine was imprisoned in Mexico for allegedly bringing guns across the border. According to Fox News, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, 25, a veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan, missed an exit while driving to meet
The Taliban appears to be fully engaged in its yearly “spring offensive,” which has been a season where the Islamist entities in the region dramatically ramp up attacks against the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, Taliban insurgents in
Our Veterans. We ask them to put on the uniform. We ask them to take up arms. And we ask them to protect us–and sacrifice their time, their safety and in so many cases, their lives–to keep us safe. Is
This review is written under the assumption you’re already familiar with the basic outline of the true story of former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell and the events surrounding 2005’s Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan. If you don’t know the story,
The mother of Andrew Tahmooressi–the U.S. Marine being held in a Mexican jail for crossing the border with guns in his truck–says the situation “is worse than Afghanistan.” Tahmooressi served two tours in Afghanistan. According to Fox News, Tahmooressi “faces
According to the Village Voice, 9/11 truthers are printing fake museum brochures to hand out at the opening of the new National September 11th Memorial Museum on Wednesday, May 21. The group, calling itself The Architects and Engineers for 9/11
