President Joe Biden did something that his three predecessors failed to do during their nearly twenty years of presiding over America’s longest war. Biden leveled with the American people and told them that the war that they were fighting in Afghanistan was one which they were not going to win. That was Truth to Power, something that rarely comes from the mouth of someone in Power.
Tag: Afghanistan
With Afghanistan, Trump cannot run away from his mental health problems
It’s possible that Donald Trump can run away from his Charlottesville problems by trying to be commander-in-chief and uttering a policy about Afghanistan. What
George W. Bush discovers—rather late in the game—empathy for soldiers he destroyed
More than 10 years, six-thousand+ body bags, and hundreds of thousands of physically and psychologically wounded veterans too late, George W. Bush may finally
Obama working to avoid an October Surprise
What’s an “October surprise?” It’s any negative (or positive) news that breaks right before the November presidential election that has the capability to determine
Viet-ghanistan?
It may be too strong an adage to say the definition of insanity is to continue to do the same things with the expectation
Afghanistan: Has America ever lost a war?
If it was possible to assemble all American presidents who have ever presided over a war, it’s conceivable that none of them would acknowledge
This is the way the war ends: not with a bang, but a whimper
The war in Iraq is officially over. But did anyone notice, really? The last troops [except for the ones that are staying and the
U.S. intends permanent occupation of Afghanistan
Access to the oil plays a role in the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. But there are additional strategic reasons for the U.S. wanting to
The Afghan war is not about terrorism
The war against Afghanistan continues to be portrayed by President Obama, and other government officials—with the help of a compliant and complicit media—as a
When do soldiers die “in vain?”
Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon said it about the soldiers they commanded in Vietnam. The two presidents did not want any fallen soldier in