When he recently announced that he was halting the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan—leaving thousands of US troops in the country through the end of his term in 2017—Barack Obama justified it on the basis of Washington’s “commitment to Afghanistan and its..…

But millions of Democratic “base” voters share Leopold’s sense that Obama hasn’t produced the reforms he promised, while embracing policies like Bush’s “war on terror” and the Afghanistan war that they abhor. . ... On top of this, the Obama administration has..…

 In last ISR, Obama's policy as neoconservatism, in which the ambition, to transform the political, social, and economic structures of Iraq and Afghanistan, remains intact.. ..…