A wounded soldier from the 10th Mountain Division is evacuated from Afghanistan in August. (David Goldman/AP)
For decades historians have argued whether, had he lived, President John F. Kennedy would have sent the nation full tilt into Vietnam the way President Lyndon…
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President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet today with the Joint Chiefs of Staff amid reports that he is close to a decision on new U.S. strategies in Afghanistan.
Not surprisingly for a president who has made conciliation the watchword of…
Hamid Karzai, then the great hope for Afghan democracy, addresses Congress in 2004. (White House Photo)
Last week, Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., took a long walk with Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai in the gardens of the presidential palace in Kabul. At…
