But it was not until 2011, under President Barack Obama, that US forces found and killed al Qaeda’s leader and 9/11 mastermind – Osama bin Laden. . American soldiers in Afghanistan, 2001. Marine Corps New York/Flickr, CC BY Though there have been efforts to end formal combat operations..…
Bush and Obama to some of America's favorite killing fields Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria. James Clapper, Obama's National Intelligence Director, played in trumping up WMD evidence against Saddam Hussein before United States invaded Iraq in 2003. ..…
Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton recently threatened that the United States would take action against any judge from the separate International Criminal Court who pursues a case against US troops in Afghanistan. . Negotiated under his predecessor Barack Obama, Trump argues..…
He was being cowed by the fear of being accused of responsibility for future consequences of defeat in war — fear that had led Lyndon Johnson to abandon his own strong resistance to full-scale US Vietnam in mid-1965 and Barack Obama to accept Afghanistan that he had argued against White..…
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