Bush Jr. for murdering over 1 million in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Obama. ..…

That the incoming Obama administration has already announced plans to maintain the current war budget and expand the war in Afghanistan only fuels this concern.13 For this reason it is imperative for the left to redouble its efforts to oppose militarism and demand that resources be put to..…

Ditto Afghanistan. After U.S. help in toppling Moammar Gadhafi, Libya is anything but stable. Egypt is in turmoil after the Obama administration backed its Muslim Brotherhood-controlled government, whose leader and elected president, Mohamed Morsi, has been ousted by the military. . ..…

The public also disapproves of his handling of Syria, Iran, China and Afghanistan by wide margins. On terrorism, however, more approve than disapprove of Obama’s job performance (by 51% to 44%). . ..…

More Americans now disapprove of the job President Obama is doing overseas (56 percent) than approve (34 percent).  Disapproval of Obama’s handling of specific issues like Afghanistan, China, and immigration has jumped by more than ten percentage points since he started his..…

(Although the U.S. invaded and occupied Afghanistan under a different rationale, I also want to acknowledge the Afghan citizens who have been killed or wounded in the U.S. war in Afghanistan.) . President Obama has not spelled out the possible consequences of a military attack on Syria, but..…

Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, and resulted in his firing by President Barack Obama. ..…

Pete Souza/White House President Barack Obama and General Stanley McChrystal at the White House, May 2009 . When Soviet forces began to pull out of Afghanistan in 1988 they were leaving behind a mixed group of Afghan forces, much as the Americans will be leaving behind a mixed group when..…

Today, the revolutions and uprisings North Africa and Middle East represent, in part, reaction to the lack of any change in this situation--despite the election of Barack Obama, with his promises of ending U.S wars and respecting Arab world. Instead, Obama doubled the number of U.S..…

President Obama says the US has made significant progress towards the goal of disrupting and dismantling Al-Qaeda in a statement to the press after participating in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Annual Review. . Key quote from President Obama: . It’s important to remember why we remain in..…

The Obama administration has been trying to dispel the impression that its military strategy in Afghanistan is influenced by domestic politics. ... By that time Obama will have concluded his promised second review of US policy in Afghanistan. ..…

Against this backdrop, Obama’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan is politically risky. ... These findings suggest that the public will want quick results from Obama’s surge. ..…

Not surprisingly, we have seen new setbacks for the movement and dwindling of activism since Obama's election, not the growth of the left that some predicted despite his clear intention of escalating U.S Afghanistan and his predictable embrace of Bush-era policies.. ..…

Barack Obama is now asking for 20,000 of NATO troops, to stay on as part of the occupation of Afghanistan and the strategy he's pursuing Afghanistan and Pakistan right now.. In both cases, with George Bush and with Barack Obama, you have to look at the difference..…

Barack Obama Obama was an opponent of the war effort as an Illinois state senator, arguing that the fight in Afghanistan should be finished before the U.S. embarked on a “dumb” and “rash” war. ..…

He has been a proponent of guest-worker programs that first offer available jobs to American workers.Compare McCain and Obama . ... Obama was an opponent of the war effort as an Illinois state senator, arguing that the fight in Afghanistan should be finished before the U.S...…