This will be short. There is not much to say that is not obvious to anyone with a brain. In 2001 we were attacked by Al Qaeda, a terrorist organization headquartered in Afghanistan and supported by the tribes that encompass the Taliban, a severely strict and radical Muslim group that was in power in much [...]
Entries Tagged as 'war in Afghanistan'
Dick and Junior Go to War
December 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · International affairs, Politics
Tags: Afghanistan·Bush·Bush administration·Dick Cheney·Iraq war·Right Wing·Rumsfeld·war in Afghanistan
The Cost of War in Iraq and Afghanistan
November 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, International affairs, Politics
Since 2001, the United States alone has spent over $687 billion on the Iraq war. We have spent over $228 billion on the war in Afghanistan. By the end of this year, 2009, we will have allocated about a trillion dollars for these two wars. Even more important is the fact that, in these two [...]
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The Case for Ending the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan–Now.
November 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · International affairs, Politics
After almost one trillion dollars spent and over 4,000 lives lost, it is time to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bring our troops home. The arguments are pretty clear by now and the people responsible are standing, not in front of the forest, where they cannot see the trees, but in the [...]
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