impeachment—a tool to prevent war?

Although condemning others’ chemical weapons, he permits use of the flesh-burning white phosphorous. In Afghanistan in April 2017, the MOAB (massive ordnance air blast), largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal, with a mile-wide blast radius, was detonated for the first time, without..

afghanistan: a failure to tell the truth

Congress and American people in regards to conditions on Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable, he wrote, adding that. The White House,  according to Vali Nasr, adviser on Afghanistan and Pakistan at State Department at the time, was ever afraid that Democratic..

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He then cautioned that Afghanistan is sensitive, highlighting that White House is acting insincerely in its relations with Afghanistan... ..

could trump take down the american empire?

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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thought al qaeda was finished in afghanistan? think again

According to New York Times report this morning, it's becoming increasingly clear to White House that clean break with Afghanistan is not achievable without risking that the country will revert to the playground that it was in the prior to the 11 attack. ..

u.s. won't pull out of afghanistan

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama wo not walk away from Afghanistan, White House declared Monday as Obama faced tough decisions -- and administration debate -- over choices that could help define his presidency in his first year as chief. ... Obama also invited bipartisan group of..

press soft-pedaling bush missteps

A flood of memos indicate that an administration frustrated by a lack of information sought to operate outside the law in order to more aggressively interrogate prisoners in Afghanistan. White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales was charged with devising an argument. . ..

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