Showing posts with label al Qaeda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label al Qaeda. Show all posts
Thursday, August 24, 2017

The American people deserve more answers on Afghanistan

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  Eight months into his term, President Donald Trump is finally paying attention to the ongoing Afghanistan War, where thousands of U.S. sol...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Jacob G. Hornberger: Constantly shifting array of official enemies

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  After George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq ended up producing ISIS, which was quickly made into a new official enemy of the United States, I ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

James Phillips: ISIS vs. Al Qaeda: The good news and the bad news

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  The Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), has become a bitter rival of Al Qaeda, its parent organiz...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Sheldon Richman: Obama’s willful foreign-policy blindness

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  Republicans are upset about President Obama’s May 23 foreign-policy address, yet politics aside, it’s hard to say why. “We show this lac...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Ken Sofer: Remembering 9/11

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  America pauses today to remember the innocent men and women who lost their lives in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in c...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Peter Brookes: Afghanistan mission's new woes

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  The recent string of “green-on-blue” (Afghan on US/Coalition troops) attacks in Afghanistan are cause for real worry: Not only might the C...